Apple AirTag: This Is Your Finest Moment Yet - Forbes

This, I hope, is simply a communicative to lukewarm your cockles. Apple’s tracker device, the AirTag, is simply a utile accessory which has helped maine recognize erstwhile I’ve near my keys astatine location (and the cognition that that’s wherever they were astatine slightest gave maine bid of caput on with cursing myself for being forgetful) and adjacent reunited maine with my iPad Air erstwhile I near it connected a train.

But now, it has been instrumental successful the rescue of a one-year-old Australian Shepherd puppy called Seamus. The photograph supra is my dog, but here’s Seamus, erstwhile helium was found.

A fewer days agone successful San Bernardino County, California, Emilie Brill was walking Seamus erstwhile helium got caught up successful fast-moving waters successful a flood power basin and was swept distant earlier she could get to him. Horrifying for some of them.

Dogs being the astute creatures they are, Seamus managed to get retired of the h2o aft being buffeted on by the h2o for a mile, arsenic acold arsenic a adjacent entree tube.

Seamus had regular I.D. connected his collar, but besides an AirTag. First responders said connected the San Bernardino County Facebook page, “Seamus was equipped with some Apple AirTag & a accepted ID Tag, which aided rescuers and owners successful tracking the pup and reuniting them.”

It’s not ever been thought that an AirTag is simply a utile canine tracking device—Apple says you shouldn’t trust connected the AirTag to support way of your canine and, aft all, astir of the clip they’re adjacent capable to beryllium seen—but it’s moments similar this which suggest that successful utmost and unexpected circumstances, an AirTag could beryllium important.

Just arsenic important was the information that radical saw the canine get into the entree conduit and Seamus was barking, too.

Firefighters “found Seamus successful the conduit staring backmost astatine them. He traveled astir a mile from erstwhile helium entered the tempest drain. He miraculously made it retired of the accelerated moving h2o & was stuck astatine the bottommost of the tube. The unit took Seamus with them successful the occurrence engine, drying & warming him up connected the mode to his house. Once arriving firefighters made interaction with his disquieted owners & reunited the household backmost together.”

The firefighters utilized a ladder to ascent 10 feet down into the conduit to rescue Seamus, whom they found, “dirty and drenched” sitting connected a heap of debris.

Whatever the advice, I’ve had an AirTag connected my canine since they were archetypal launched (though present attached by a less-intrusive clip than the attachment astatine the apical of this post) and portion I don’t trust connected it, I’m gladsome it’s there.