US paddleboarder loses phone; scuba diver finds it next day


Hernandez’s still-working iPhone was found by a scuba diver the day after she dropped it in the ocean. — Image by Freepik

ROCKPORT, Massachusetts: When Laura Hernandez fell into the water and lost her iPhone while paddleboarding off Massachusetts earlier this month, she figured it was probably gone for good.

But the next day the New York woman returned to the Rockport beach and approached the instructor of a novice scuba diving class and told him her situation.

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