Kicker: Diving for a dropped phone

NICK EICHER, HOST: I know these new iPhones have some pretty effective waterproofing.

But it’s still not a great idea to take them with you, you know, for activities like paddle boarding.

Just ask New Yorker Laura Hernandez. She took her’s along with her on a recent trip to the beach in Massachusetts when, you know what happened. She dropped it.

So she came ashore, phoneless, and prevailed upon a scuba instructor nearby to ask whether any of the students might be up for the challenge of finding her phone.

Wouldn’t you know it? In her very first open-water dive, a diver by the name of Vanessa Kahn spotted the phone, 25 feet below the surface.

It didn’t hurt that it was in a bright pink case. But still pretty impressive.

Kahn surfaced, turned on the camera, snapped a selfie, and earned a $300 reward.

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