We’ve covered many stories of people getting their Apple devices back after losing them for days or even months in challenging situations, and something like this happened to Jared Brick. After losing his in the Caribbean over a year ago, Apple’s Find My helped Brick get his hands back on his watch – and it’s still working. Apple Watch lost in the ocean recovered after a year Brick told his story in a video .
According to him, it all happened during a trip to the Caribbean in June 2022 to celebrate his son’s birthday. Brick says he bought new for himself and his son, so that his son could communicate with him at any time, even without a phone nearby. The owner of the says that he used to go scuba diving twice a day without taking the watch off his wrist – after all, the is certified as water resistant to depths of up to 50 meters.
But one day, after returning from a dive, Brick realized that his was no longer on his wrist. “I’m wearing it and poof, its gone, slide off my wrist and into the water. I didn’t realize it at the time, so distracted by the true beauty of that place,” said Brick.
He then used Apple’s Find My to mark the device as lost. Brick admits that he had always fantasized about someone finding the and returning it to him, although he didn’t believe it would actually happen. But it did.
In December last year, he received a voicemail from someone in the Caribbean claiming to have found his . The device was still working, and thanks to Find.