It is amazing what an iPhone 11 has been able to endure, found more than seven meters deep after a good handful of days. If you have had it in your hands, you already know it: few more rugged and capable phones.
And note that this iPhone was also the first to benefit from the new surface protection technology, thanks to a powerful tempered glass, designed to absorb the energy of impacts and survive drops and scratches. What no one could have imagined is that this phone would be able to survive a fall to the bottom of a lake.
The iPhone 11 that survived in the bed of a lake
But how does an iPhone 11 end up at the bottom of a lake? Indeed, the terminal was found during a night dive with diving students, in Paranoá, Brasilia, on February 17. Apparently, the instructor Edinho Rocha found it more than seven meters deep, picked it up and decided to turn it on to see if it would work. Surprisingly, everything was working perfectly, so the monitor decided to find its original owner.
The phone was blocked, so Rocha decided to record a video with it, upload it to the networks and thus try to locate the owner. For several days and after 17,000 views of the reel original, in the end he found the owner of the device, a certain Breno Rafael who was in that lake with his kayak during the previous week. And attention because this story has it all: Rafael had jumped into the lake a few days ago. He did it impulsively, without thinking, when he heard the cries for help of a drowning girl.
Wearing her vest, she swam quickly and was able to help the girl, pulling her to shore, only to return to her kayak to find her iPhone was missing from her clothing. Rafael gave up the device completely for lost. That is why the surprise was capital: without hope of recovering it, He was perplexed when he saw on the networks how a diving instructor asked about the owner of that iPhone.
The original story has been documented on TV Globo, the medium that has even interviewed the original owner. According to what they say, a few days later the two met. Edinho made some jokes about the blocking system. Breno unlocked it at once, in front of him., and checked how everything worked perfectly. Until today.
And that the iPhone 11 is rated to only withstand a depth of 2 meters for thirty minutes. We have to go back to September 10, 2011 to take a look at our analysis, remember that, for example, iPhone 11 is certified to IP68 under IEC standard 60529. This means that, on paper, you are prepared for a dive up to 2 meters deep for a maximum of 30 minutes. Of course, with small print: only in fresh water, since salt water has a different pH and oxidizes the metallic components at a faster rate. Although, seen what I’ve seen…