FLOODED camera . .

[f3nikon]

No f3 . . . that would have been to EASY to see. I am 200 % sure BOTH ORINGS were seated cleanly within the housing.

An NO . . I would NEVER giant stride with a camera !!!!

As for where it poped out . . like I said before . . "at the bottom . . 6 oclock" . . not near any hinge . . not on any side . . . almost dead nuts middle of the "BOTTOM".

The oring in the door is already stretched fairly snug around the door. There just is no play in the oring when it is seated within the doors channel. So something was forcing it OUT . . and that is the head scratching question . . ??

From what you are saying that the oring was seated properly, the following conditions have had to happen for it to leak as it did:

There would have to be a positive pressure inside the housing greater than the outside pressure pushing in, a pressure high enough to actually spread or separate the housing body and lid far enough to, as Catherine correctly put it "extrude" the oring outwards towards the water pressure pushing in.

Remember that the oring is in a captive groove and cannot easy be pushed sideways or up and down if the oring is seated properly and the lid latches are correctly engaged.

So what type of force inside the housing can generate such a pressure??? Heat generated from the camera may cause the air inside to expand a bit to a worse case 1 or 2 psi higher maybe? The water outside, depending on depth would be around 20 to 33 psi, a far greater pressure than inside the housing.

For the sake of our discussion lets say by some miraculous chain of events (battery chemically explodes) and the pressure inside the housing does come up to 100 or 200 psi. The oring at the main lid, if properly seated, would still remain intact because the weaker links are all the housing's camera control feed through orings that would start to vent or by cracking the housing itself due to the flexing of the housing.

All I am saying (because I did not see your housing) is that I find it very hard to believe that the oring pushed itself out when properly installed (seated) and when the lid is also properly closed. Especially when this happened right after you replaced the oring.

One other scenario if your housing had a double oring seal like my 8080 PT-23, the second oring (not the one you replaced) may have popped out of the groove and got "pinched" between the lid and housing body when closing the lid. Causing a larger gap between the lid and body and preventing the first oring from sealing properly.

Again sorry for your loss.

 

[solanabezo]

Leaked my 5050 also. Just as what happened to Zorrr2. I have a paper weight and a housing to remind me of what can happen. Now I have an 8080. Been lucky so far and I do not put too much care in it too. Maybe this is what they are made for. Not to put too much attention in them. They get spoiled.