(Full article by Chris Gaige can be found in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise)
This year’s lake cleanup took place on Aug. 13. When Grant was diving in the middle of the lake, width-wise, near its southern shore, he came across some rather unusual wreckage: a sunken drone.
Grant brought the drone to shore, where he was able to make out a contact number for the drone’s owner, Jim Tepedino. Grant reached out.
“I’m sitting there watching TV and I get this text from somebody and I thought it was a joke at first,” Tepedino said. “(Grant) asked ‘did you lose a drone in Mirror Lake?’ I almost fell off the back of my chair.”
Tepedino’s initial disbelief stemmed from one thing: it had been a hair over a decade since he had last seen the drone, or given it much thought. Tepedino said he and his wife — who live on Long Island — come to the Lake Placid area every summer. On Aug. 11, 2014, Tepedino was flying his drone over Mirror Lake getting early morning pictures of the water and surrounding mountains.
(Full article by Chris Gaige can be found in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise)