A man has recovered his digital camera from a city drain in Canada five months after it was stolen by seagulls... and the footage was still watchable.

The Polaroid Cube was dropped in the Lachine Canada in Montreal, Quebec, in May this year, but he was only able to retrieve it now because the city drains the canal before winter.

The filmer later wrote online: "I climbed into the basin and walked through the sludge in the hopes of finding the camera.

"Not only did I find the camera in the mud, but managed to salvage the footage of its final moments!"

In May of this year, a seagull picked up my Polaroid Cube - a small digital camera - and dropped it in the Lachine Canada in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I had a rough ideas where the bird dropped it. The city drains the canal before winter, so once the canal was drained in October, I climbed into the basin and walked through the sludge in the hopes of finding the camera. Not only did I find the camera in the mud (after five months of being submerged in the canal!), but managed to salvage the footage of its final moments!

On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok0f281xlng