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- A Galaxy S23 Ultra spent five hours underwater in a freezing Arctic river and still worked perfectly.
- The phone’s IP68 rating doesn’t cover those conditions, making the survival more surprising.
- It follows a recent story of a Pixel 8 that endured four days in a hot tub and came out unscathed.
Most of us dread dropping our phones in a puddle or the sink, let alone an ice-covered Arctic river. But one Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra just shrugged it off and powered on like nothing happened.
According to Samsung Newsroom, Swedish wilderness guide Mikael Krekula was out on the frozen Kalix River testing sonar gear when his Galaxy S23 Ultra slipped from his glove and dropped into an ice fishing hole. It plunged around three meters into the freezing water and was trapped beneath the ice for the next five hours.