Expert Swimmer Dives Into 10ft Deep Water at Malpe Port & Retrieves I-phone of a Businessman

Expert swimmer Eshwar Malpe received an SOS that a high-end phone had fallen into 10ft deep waters of Malpe port. Since the caller was a businessman who had stored key documents on his Rs 1.5 lakh phone, Eshwar made a strong plea for immediate help. Eshwar jumped into the backwaters and fished out two phones – one pricey and the other unidentified and unclaimed one.

Eshwar, 48, said that the businessman who had lost his phone was buying fish from the Malpe market when his iPhone slipped out of his hand and sank into the Malpe waters without a trace. Eshwar gets such SOS calls by the dozen in a day.

In his 20-year free service, he claims to have helped retrieve nearly 900 bodies, recover 100 two-wheelers and 10 cargo vehicles from the same spot. He said it is suspected more than 100 phones might have accidentally fallen into the sea in the past three months. Not many people report the loss of phones because of the presence of silt no one ventures to retrieve phones or other valuable items.