A Photographer was reunited with a camera he had lost in the Caribbean after a sea turtle swam all the way to Florida with it.

De Telegraaf said the camera's strap caught on the reptile's shell after Dutchman Dick de Bruin dropped it in the sea during a trip to Aruba last November.

In its efforts to free itself, the turtle accidentally switched the waterproof device on and filmed part of its 1770km journey.

The camera washed up six months later in Key West, Florida, where it was spotted by Paul Shultz, an investigator with the US Coast Guard.

Mr Shultz charged up the battery and found a series of photos capturing various Aruban landmarks.

Video: Footage posted on the web that led to the camera's owner.

He posted the footage on YouTube along with a brief note about its contents in a bid to trace its owner, De Telegraaf said.

Residents of the sundrenched Caribbean island circulated the report until Mr De Bruin, a Dutch photographer who had been taking snaps of a shipwreck, spotted it and contacted Mr Shultz.

"I'm still amazed it floated all the way to Key West. I will be shipping it Fed-Ex to you tomorrow'" an excited Mr Shultz replied.

Experts say the camera may have floated part of the way before become entangled in the turtle.

Aruba is one of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, located around 24km off the coast of Venezuela.

The 38km-long island forms part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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