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One Handed Catch Saves a Plummeting Drone from Certain Death

Watch the quadcopter evade death by crashing on sea and rocks off the coast of Australia.

​Drone owners will go to great lengths to save their flying $2,000 robots from perishing, just ask videographer Ryan Chatfield.

He was out filming over City Beach in Perth when his Phantom 2 lost power and started falling from the sky into the water below. The camera onboard caught what could have been its dramatic last few moments, until Chatfield jumped over the rocks to save it.

"What a catch!" he's heard saying about the last-second, one-handed catch.

Chatfield told the W​est Australian that the drone's batteries have only been in use for a few weeks.

"If I hadn't caught it, it would have sunk to the bottom of the ocean and I would have lost everything," he said. "I thought, 'That's it, it's gone' but I knew I just had to have a crack at it."

He posted the video to YouTube where it's "expected to go viral." He added there's a "bit of a bidding war going on."

You can enjoy the video for free above.