iPhone 16 Pro Films 11 Minutes Underwater After Falling into Sea Off Athens

A woman on holiday in Greece accidentally dropped her iPhone 16 Pro into the sea off the coast of Athens, where it recorded for 11 minutes before being recovered by a diver. Liel Farhat, the owner, says the device was unharmed despite falling about four meters into seawater. The iPhone 16 Pro has an IP68 rating, which protects against freshwater immersion up to 1.5 meters, but not seawater. Farhat dried the phone with a towel and it worked. The video, edited and posted on Instagram, has received 13.5 million views and 3.7 million likes. The diver was a friend's husband who learned to dive 20 years ago. The incident occurred while Farhat was on a sailing trip with friends. The video has been described as perfect marketing for Apple. In 2023, a man intentionally dropped a GoPro into the ocean off Florida for similar footage, and in 2024, an iPhone survived a 16,000-foot fall from an Alaska Airlines plane.