Photos recovered from camera after 13 years in Colorado’s Animas River

DENVER (KDVR) — A digital camera thought lost forever has resurfaced after 13 years in a Colorado river.

Coral Amayi lost the camera while tubing on the Animas River in 2010, shortly after her best friend’s wedding.

“I had gotten tossed from my tube at Smelter Rapid,” she said. “And I came back up, got my tube, and my camera was missing.”

Amayi was heartbroken, knowing many of the photos on the camera hadn’t been uploaded to her computer.

“I remember getting back to my boyfriend’s house and uncontrollably crying and upset,” she said. 

The deep water and fast current quickly left her accepting defeat, knowing she’d never see the camera again.

That is, until this week,…