Buried memories
GoPro Hero 3 found by a trash bin at the end of RAT Beach, near where the trail goes up to Malaga Caves. Photo by Tom Bertolotti When Italian photographer Tom Bertolotti stumbled upon a half-buried GoPro camera on January 12, in the sand near RAT Beach, he thought it belonged to a friend of his, who recently lost a camera while paddleboarding. “It was an exceptionally low tide that day and there was a lot of junk coming up from the sea,” Bertolotti said. “I thought it had been in the water for maybe a week at most.” Bertolotti found out the camera was much older than he had thought after he went home and inserted the memory card into his computer. There were photos and videos of a mystery woman bodyboarding in a yellow and black wetsuit, dated between February 14, 2013 and March 3 of that same year — nearly eight years ago. “I like to think it was a Valentine’s Day gift because of when the first photo was taken,” Bertolotti said. “So I made it my mission to reunite the photos with the owner.” Bertolotti took stills from the video and posted the images to various Redondo Beach Facebook groups. Within 24 hours his various posts had been shared and commented on hundreds of times. A…
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