🛥 🔑 A boating accident story I heard this week:

A friend's friend was boating in Princess Louisa inlet. He leaned over & his phone slid out of his shirt pocket into the ocean

Princess Louisa is one of the prettiest places in BC. It's also one of Canada’s few fiords. The fiord is deep, reaching 1000 feet at its deepest point. Despite being near shore, it was inaccessible freediving, so they left without recovering the phone

A week later, he realized the only backup of his keys was on the phone! And he had a considerable amount of Bitcoin on there... enough that he was not comfortable losing!

He hired a diver & gave them approximate coordinates. Luckily, the phone was recovered, as were the keys... & I expect a lesson was learned

How many of us have set up a wallet & thought, 'I'll write down the recovery phrase later', but never do & still put funds on it? It's happened to me. Things are fine until they aren't!

Just this year, I suffered an unauthorized factory reset on my phone that wiped all data (ocf incredibly bad timing as I was on a ferry between Argentina & Uruguay & recovering any accounts from memory was a rough go, but that's another story)

Let our oversights perhaps give you a New Year's resolution: have you backed up all your keys?

(Pic from Pricess Louisa)