Strange but true.  Digital memory cards are indeed an amazing technology.

Couple’s precious holiday snaps recovered intact from the bottom of the Atlantic… 16 months after digital camera was dropped overboard from QM2

When Dennis and Barbara Gregory accidentally dropped their digital camera over the side of the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship in the middle of the Atlantic, they thought their holiday snaps were gone for ever.  But 16 months later the couple have been reunited with the pictures after a Spanish fisherman found the camera in his nets.   Amazingly, trawlerman Benito Estevez discovered there were five images still intact on the Nikon’s memory card.