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iPhone returns to B.C. owner after eight months of seafaring from mainland to Gulf Islands Hunter Hoffman lost his phone last July when the dingy he was in capsized on Coquitlam River; it washed up on a Mayne Island beach eight months later.
Author of the article: Gordon McIntyre
Publishing date: Mar 09, 2021 • March 11, 2021 • 3 minute read • Hunter Hoffman shows a photograph of his lost phone on his replacement phone at his home in Port Coquitlam. Lost while he was rafting on Coquitlam River, it washed ashore on Mayne Island eight month later. Photo by Arlen Redekop /PNG
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When their raft flipped and threw its three occupants into the Coquitlam River last July, the kids were battered a bit by the turbulence and rocks, but they were OK.
“We were on rapids about 10 minutes from Lions Park and the dinghy flipped,” recalled 16-year-old Hunter, the youngest of eight children in the Hoffman family. His young niece and a buddy of his were also thrown into the water. “I missed my contact information the most,” Hunter said of the phone he thought he had lost forever. The iPhone 7 Plus was inside a watertight case so the family returned to look for it, albeit with almost no hope. After scouring the area downstream, they gave up. On Saturday, eight months after it went missing, Hunter’s mom Angela received a text from Mayne Island saying the phone had washed ashore in Piggott Bay, where the current comes down Navy Channel and sometimes swirls around the bay.