I keep a Petri Dish with some moss from my yard growing in it. Last night, I added water to it, which I do periodically. Then this morning, I was checking out the moss with my stereo zoom scope, looking for some Globular Springtails I had seen in it previously, and saw this guy upside down in the water, floundering around.
I was able to rescue him using a small plastic pipette, and transferred him to a slide. I used a small piece of paper towel to absorb most of the water around him then put the slide on the Nikon microscope to get a closer look.
Eventually, the water dried up and he was able to turn over, whereupon, he made his getaway, walking right off the edge of the slide. He now lives somewhere on my microscope or maybe my desk and I will probably never see him again. 
Here is the video
. Rather long, but shows how tenaciously everything, large and small, clings to life.
These stills are rather poor, because he never stopped moving and it was covered in water.
1. 40x.
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2. 100x.
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