Woman stunned as her Olympus digital camera which she lost in 2013 while tubing on a river is FOUND

A woman is reunited with a digital camera 13 years after she assumed she had lost it forever in a Colorado river.

Coral Amayi had photos of her friends’ wedding and her own graduation, among other treasured memorabilia, on her Olympus digital camera and took them with her tubing on the Animas River in 2010.

“I had been thrown out of my tube at Smelter Rapid,” he said. “And I went back up, got my tube, and my camera was gone.”

He had yet to upload most of the photos from the SD card to his personal computer, meaning many of those moments were seemingly lost forever.

“I remember going back to my boyfriend’s house and crying and getting upset uncontrollably,” she said.

Last week, however, an angler was casting lines into the river and made a strange discovery.

Spencer Greiner looked into the shallows and wasn’t quite sure what she had found.

“I was walking around and I saw it sticking out of the sand,” Spencer Greiner said. fox 31.

“It was in bad shape, so I didn’t really have any hope of getting anything out of it, I was just planning to throw it away, and then curiosity got the better of me and I had to see what was in it.” .’

He eventually figured out it was a camera and reached for a screwdriver to try to pry it open, and water flowed out quickly when he did.

“I was like ‘yeah, this is probably not going to work at all,'” Greiner said. “But I plugged it into the computer, it read right away, and I was like, ‘Oh great, let’s see what kind of treasures we’re going to find on this memory card.'”

The treasures Greiner found were photos of Amayi’s tubing trip, as well as a friend’s bridal shower and wedding.

Greiner believes the camera spent 13 years in the river and traveled about 1.2 miles from where it was originally lost, which he called “astonishing.”

Coral Amayi (pictured left) had photos of her friends’ wedding and her own graduation, among other treasured memorabilia, on her Olympus digital camera and took them with her tubing on the Animas River in 2010. The photos were found 13 years later by Spencer Greiner (pictured right), who had gone fishing in the river

Amayi had yet to upload most of the photos from the SD card to her personal computer, meaning many of those moments were seemingly lost forever.

“It was in bad shape, so I didn’t really have any hope of getting anything out of it, I was just planning to throw it away, and then curiosity got the better of me and I had to see what was in it.” ‘ Greiner said about the camera.

Amayi is expected to receive Greiner’s SD card later this week.

“It just amazes me that an SD card still works after all that time,” said Amayi.

He took to a Facebook group a week ago with the following message: ‘Did you get married on June 12, 2010 in the Durango area?

‘Did you have an ugly brown van at your bachelorette party? Do you recognize any of these people? If so, please contact me.

Within an hour, people had started looking younger in Amay’s photos, including a key participant.

“It was less than an hour after I posted and the groom at the wedding said ‘it’s me and my wife!’ Greiner said, “So I was surprised that it happened so quickly.”

Greiner took to a Facebook group a week ago with the following message: ‘Did you get married on June 12, 2010 in the Durango area?’ He received a reply from the man who was married at the wedding that Amayi attended.

The photos included a bachelorette weekend that Amayi was a part of.

They were quickly able to contact Amayi and give her the revelation.

“I was totally flabbergasted,” Amayi said. ‘And I got up and I was like dancing in the bathroom, and I said ‘who am I going to tell?’ I need to tell this to someone right now.

Amayi hopes to get all of Greiner’s photos sometime this week.