Pictured here is the barnacle-covered camera case that was recovered by students in Taiwan on Tuesday, March 27, 2018. (All images courtesy of Park Lee)

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Children on the northern coast of Taiwan recently found a camera on the beach while doing cleanup work.The camera belonged to a Japanese girl who lost it during a dive off Ishigaki Island in September 2015.Thanks to a Facebook post that went viral, the camera was reunited with its owner.

A camera that was lost by a scuba diver off the Japanese coast has been located and returned to its owner two years later, thanks to a Facebook post that went viral.

The camera, inside a barnacle-coveredwaterproof case, was found Tuesday along thecoast in northern Taiwan by a group of children who were , according to PetaPixel. They turned it over to their teacher, Park Lee, who opened the case and discovered the camera was fine, and the battery still had enough of a charge to turn it on, the report added.

Lee posted a few of the photos from the camera in an attempt to reunite the item with its owner, and his post quickly went viral. In a matter of days, it had been shared thousands of times.

"Is it possible to find the owner of a camera floating in the sea?" wrote Lee in the post. "It seems a bit unethical to peek at other people’s camera photos. However, as a result of our discussion, if we could take a look at the photos, would there be any clues for us to find the owner of the camera to return him? So we watched the photos together quickly in the whole class."

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Shortly after the post received thousands of views, a friend of Japanese college studentSerina Tsubakihara notified her, and, the TaiwanNews reported. She told Leeshe lost the camera while diving off the coast of Japan's Ishigaki Island more than two years ago. The most recent photos on the camera were taken on Sept. 7, 2015,the report added.

She told BBC.com she lost the camera when who had run out of air.

Tsubakihara said she plans to travel to Taiwan to thank the children for recovering her camera, she told Taiwan's Central News Agency.

"I am so lucky and happy to have this miracle opportunity to feel kindness of people in my life," she told BBC.com. "Those pictures remind me of old memories and brought me back to those."