Reunite this man with his GoPro! Please share this clip in time for Christmas! FTB Extra

Here’s how you could really make a man’s Christmas: reunite him with his lost GoPro that’s full of memories of his holiday in Thailand! I found this GoPro Hero 4 whilst snorkeling off the south-west coast of Ko Lanta in Thailand. The battery still had power and I was even able to record the moment when it resurfaced after being under water for what must be a month or so. There’s not much to go on in terms of clues but I think the owner is a young American man. He may have studied at the University of California (he’s wearing a Golden Bears cap) and the friend in the pictures and videos may be his brother called Adam. That’s all we know so if you can help by sharing this clip so he gets to see it, we’ve set up a page for him to contact us on. He (or you, if you know him) can get in touch at: https://www.patreon.com/followtheboat or at http://www.followtheboat/gopro. (con’t below)…

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Hi – I’m jamie from followtheboat and I live on a sail boat with my girlfriend Liz and my cat Millie. We’re video bloggers and we document our adventures as we slowly sail around this fascinating planet. We produce fortnightly video diary episodes and publish them on Patreon and then youtube, but we also put together random clips that fall outside of our video series. We call these FTB Extras and this clip is one such feature. It has a beginning and a middle but, as yet, it doesn’t have an end. That’s where you come in. We need your help finding this man to reunite him with this GoPro. I’m hoping I can make this guy’s Christmas. Here’s how it started:

My friend and I were snorkelling in Thailand when I found a GoPro on a selfie stick on the sea bed. A small amount of water had got into the housing but it still had some battery power.

The irony of this story is that the friend I was with was games developer American McGee who, earlier this year, also found a GoPro. His story went viral when he managed to track down the Spanish owner.

So, if I am to reunite this camera with its owner then I need to do some detective work. When American found his GoPro there were loads of clues on the memory card that enabled him to identify where the owner came from. I wasn’t so lucky.

The first clue is the condition of the selfie stick. If there is one thing I know something about it’s growth on an object when underwater since I regularly have to scrape my hull of barnacles. At a guess I would suggest the camera has been underwater for around a month.

Despite this the camera itself was in pretty good condition and there was still some battery power. Unfortunately water had got into the lens and the front display but the touch-screen was fine and the memory card was in perfect condition.

The second thing was to check the time-stamp on the files. Unfortunately with digital cameras if you don’t set the internal clock it time-stamps from January 1st zero-hundred hours and all the images and clips appeared to be recorded in January. This didn’t make sense since I found the camera in December. Although the Hero 4 came out a year ago, the growth on the housing and stick didn’t look to be one year’s worth.

Next I watched every clip to listen to evidence of where the owner came from. Unfortunately, and perhaps strangely for me as someone’s who is used to talking to camera, the owner and his friend don’t do any talking in the clips! There’s a moment when one of them calls out to the other whilst riding an elephant but I can’t work out his name. The only consistent conversation recorded is between the owner of the camera and the elephant he’s riding. I’m guessing he’s speaking Thai to his four-legged friend. There are one or two other moments when a word is uttered and they sounded American to me.

That’s about all I can tell you about this guy. He’s American, may be a post-grad on an extended backpacking trip, looks to be in his mid-late 20s, has perfect teeth, traveled quite a bit of Thailand and visited Ko Lanta since that’s where I found the camera.

If you know either of these two guys then please ask them to get in touch. Get in touch via our Patreon website, www.patreon.com/followtheboat. I’d really like to make this guy’s Christmas and reunite him with his camera and his memories.

Peace.

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