Lost at Sea: ‘Find My’ Helps Man Retrieve Apple Watch From the Ocean After a Year

A man was recently reunited with his Apple Watch after losing it in the ocean over a year ago—and it still works.

According to a YouTube video posted by Jared Brick, he wore the watch while scuba diving in the Caribbean over a year ago. He dived twice a day and never removed it; however, one day, upon his return to the surface, he noticed that his watch was missing, 9to5Mac reports.

“I’m wearing it, and poof, it’s gone, slid off my wrist and into the water. I didn’t realize it at the time, so distracted by the true beauty of that place,” said Brick.

Brick marked the device as lost in Apple’s “Find My” app and went about his life. 

Then in December he received a voicemail from someone in the Caribbean who had found his watch. When the person powered it on, thanks to Find My, the watch displayed Brick’s phone number. The person who found it, a man named Jonathan, mailed it to Brick in California, and he was reunited with the device over a year after losing it.

Apple’s Find My app works with various Apple products, including iOS devices, MacBooks, AirTags, and, of course, the Apple Watch.