IPhones are not the most durable mobile phones on water, but Michel Gandrom from Pennsylvania's Kennedy, Pennsylvania, has a different opinion, as he found his phone after about a year immersed in a frozen lake.
Gandrum lost it iPhone 4 during fishing in the icy lake in March of 2015, when his device slipped out of his pocket and fell into the hole of the ice.
The unfortunate user reports BuzzFeed News "We had temperature -25 degrees and so am I two my friends we went ice fishing. We were sitting in our folding chairs and as I took a bite out of a cereal bar my phone slipped. Instead of falling into the snow, he hit the edge of the hole and fell into it. I caught one fish, a blue gill, but in the end the fishing wasn't worth it."
In the summer the ice on the lake melted and in September the lake dried up due to problems with its tightness. The iPhone was found by a treasure hunter who used a metal detector to find lost items objects at the bottom of it that had fallen from the boats of the area. He reports that he found an iPhone under about six inches of mud.
He took the device to his house, cleaned it, left it on rice for a couple of days and then connected it to a charger. Magically, the phone was working, so she looked at the contact list to find the owner's number.
Gandrum, who had in the meantime bought an iPhone 6s, used a special protection cover for the iPhone 4, and this may have been one of the reasons the device has long endured the water. Larger iPhones are not water resistant, and only the iPhone 7 has a degree of IP67 sealing and is specifically designed to withstand certain water conditions.
The fisherman will cleanse the iPhone 4 more carefully and after doing a maintenance and that small repairs will then need to be given to his mother.
