Osoyoos' 'friendly neighbourhood scuba diver' Camille Charron is reuniting people with their beloved belongings this summer.
From recovering a lost earring to phones, Charron is off to a good start in his Osoyoos Lake diving adventures this year.
Last year, Charron embarked on a deep-lake journey searching for lost treasure. It was an idea sparked by social media videos of people using metal detectors in local waters.
He first discovered loads of garbage and a large piece of glass that he spent hours cleaning up under the trestle bridge.
Now, the diver has become a sensation of his own, receiving requests from people who've lost items on Osoyoos Lake.
On Monday, Charron located a sentimental earring for a neighbour's daughter-in-law on the beach.
"One of our trailer park neighbours contacted me because his daughter-in-law had just lost her earring on the beach," he said.
"I ran down there and found it with my metal detector after about 20 minutes because it was nowhere near where they told me it was."
Then, on Tuesday, Charron posted to a popular neighbourhood Facebook group, sharing the lock screen photo of a phone, in hopes of the owner seeing it.
"Recognize this dog and you could win yourself a Samsung Galaxy," he said on social media.
"This is mine," responded the owner.
Turns out, the phone owner had chatted with Charron weeks before.
"She contacted me a few weeks ago to look for it. I didn't quite have my 'sea legs' yet, so to speak, so I didn't have any luck finding it," he said.
"Now that I do have them, I went back out and had an aggressive look through the milfoil [...] I coincidentally found it today and forgot about her original email.
"She contacted me right away and came and got it. I even gave her back $10 she forgot she had in her case."
Recently, the Osoyoos Lake diver has been contacted by several people in search of items, turning to social media for help.
