Phone survives after week on bottom of lake

Andrew McRoberts with the remarkable working phone. Photo / Greymouth Star

Greymouth technician Andrew McRoberts is happy to be back on-line with his smartphone after it spent a week at the bottom of Lake Brunner.

The Samsung S3 fell into the water as he was jumping from a boat on to the jetty at Moana.

"It fell into 2m of dark murky water and initially I couldn't find it, but I came back a week later, waded out and dived around where I thought it was.

"When I pulled it out it was covered in lake mould.

"I dried it out and it's now working again."