A MUM who lost her camera while scuba diving off the Scottish coast three years ago is set to be reunited with it after it was found 531 miles away in Sweden.

Adele Devonshire, an environmental consultant, lost the camera containing photographs of her honeymoon and pictures of her daughter while diving in the North Sea near the village of St Abbs, in July 2013.

The Fuji camera, in a waterproof case, bobbed across the ocean where it was found by Lars Mossberg on the island of Gullholmen, home to around 100 people, off the west coast of Sweden.

Mr Mossberg posted a photograph of the camera, plus two images from its memory card, on the open Facebook group ‘Lost at Sea’ in the hope of finding its owner.

His appeal went viral and was shared by more than 2,000 people across the world.

It eventually reached Mrs Devonshire thanks to a friend who had joined the Facebook group one day earlier.

The married mum-of-two, who works at Landscape Planning Group, in Severalls Business Park, in Colchester said: “I still can’t believe it.

“I realised the camera was no longer attached to my kit after a dive, the clip must have snapped.

“To think it’s been bobbing around the sea all this time and it still works, it’s incredible.

“I had quite a few precious photos on there, including some of dives all over the world.

“My friend spotted it on a Facebook group because she recognised the photo of my dad in his diving gear.”

Mrs Devonshire, 37, who lives Manningtree, has now made contact with Mr Mossberg, who is arranging to send the camera back to the UK.

In his original post, he wrote: “It has probably floated from the English east coast to the Swedish west coast.

“The photos include family members and diving sites from different places around the word.”