Woman who loses phone in river is reunited with lost text messages

A woman was thrilled to be reunited with the last text messages sent by her late father after a diver recovered the iPhone she lost in a river - 15 MONTHS earlier.

Erica Bennett, 39, was doubly stunned to hear a diver had found the device buried in silt on the Edisto River bed, in Ridgeville, South Carolina, USA .... and it still worked.

Personal trainer Erica lost the iPhone overboard while enjoying a river float trip in June 2018.

Her husband Jason Bennett, 49, a videographer and photographer, dived into the water to try and retrieve the cell phone, but couldn't find it.