In 2016, Jenna Volpert (22), who lives in St Clement but is studying at Keele University, went kayaking with her friend, Baz Le Seeleur, on the east coast – but soon ran into difficulty.
She said: ‘We went kayaking from Fliquet to La Coupe to have a picnic there but on the way back we got caught in a rip-tide.
‘The kayak capsized and when we tried to pull it back over, the Go-Pro was ripped off my wrist. We were eventually able to get close to the rocks, flip it back over and paddle into shore and we kind of knew it [the camera] was gone forever.
‘At the time, I was just happy to have got back to land but over the next few days I realised that I had lost all my photos that I had taken on it from eight months of travelling.’
However, Clive Dunford, a cardiac physiologist at the General Hospital, was out exploring the east coast of the Island with his family at the weekend when he came across the device.
‘I went down to La Coupe with my wife and two children to look for crabs and fish in the rockpools and I came across a Go-Pro in a rocky, sandy area and took it home,’ he said.
‘It was absolutely mangled but I managed to get the card out and found loads of photos of people on it and put it on Facebook.
‘Within an hour of putting them up, my son’s school teacher messaged me, saying that she knew who it was. It turns out that it had been missing for two and a half years.’
Mr Dunford added that Baz collected the camera and memory card from his Trinity home on Tuesday and gave him a bottle of wine as a token of thanks.
He added: ‘I am really happy about it. There are so many bad things on Facebook nowadays so to have this happen is really positive – it is really nice.’
