Prove that memory cards can withstand more than we think!

Well that is certainly a story worth sharing....how nice that the fisherman took the time to post the pictures in hopes of locating the owner. These are the kind of stories that don't get enough attention. Thanks, Simone!

That is a neat story and thanks for sharing it.


I have a friend who is an electronic genius and he once told me that memory cards were like Timex watches used to be; they take a licking and keep on ticking.

He claims they will hold data for many years under all manner of circumstances, even data that the camera owner assumed was purposefully deleted.

A big part of his business is rescuing pictures after memory cards have suffered all manner of mishaps; more than one having been passed through a dog --- all the way through the dog; kids too, as they will swallow things a dog would hesitate to.

It is amazing, even in a little backwoods 3rd-world community like mine, how many cameras, and also memory cards by themselves, become victims of all manner of catastrophes.

Of course, most of the people that have these catastrophes are the kind of people I would hesitate to loan a sledge-hammer for fear they would either break it or lose it.