Ok, so Ill make this as painless as I can....
I was diving in Morehead City NC on some of the famous wrecks just off shore. On Saturday morning, while still at the dive shop, I took my O ring from the ziplock bag and cleaned and greased it. Visual inspection turned up no concerns. I sealed the camera into the housing prior to putting it back into the pelican case and then transporting it to the boat.
After on the boat, I assembled the camera, tray, arms, and strobes. Not once did I break the seal on the housing. I placed the setup in the small freshwater camera tank. 3 other people had placed their cameras in the same tank after mine. It was a rough ride out to the site and the cameras were moving around quite a bit.
I was the first to enter the water on the first dive. As I didnt have a partner, I decided to solo dive - carrying my pony of course. The DM on the boat handed me my camera after I entered the water. I swam to the hang line and started toward the anchor line and glanced at my housing. I noticed several drops of water in the housing. Against my urge to shoot to the surface, I made my way back along the hang line to the stern and ascended. I handed the camera to the DM, told him what happened and finished my dive.
Upon finishing my dive, I retrieved my camera. The housing had indeed flooded. There was almost 1/4" water in the bottom of the housing and the "gel-dry" pack was completely soaked. I tried to turn on the camera and nothing happened. I opened the battery case and removed the battery and water came out of the camera. Same thing with the 16GB SD card.
Remembering some of the posts from this site, as soon as I returned to the dock, I flooded the camera again with freshwater. I actually opened the battery compartment and put the camera under the faucet and then shook as much as I could out of it. I did this twice.
As soon as I got back to my camper, I lit the pilot light in the oven and put the camera inside. I let it sit in there for almost 13 hours. I'm guessing, but I would say the temp was about 125 degrees. To my surprise, I put in a new battery and the camera turned on.
To this point, after an hour or so of testing, the only thing I have found wrong with the camera is that it wont save the time / date. I'm assuming this is probably the internal battery being dead. Either way it doesn't affect the operation of the camera.
Thought I would share this important experience.
I was diving in Morehead City NC on some of the famous wrecks just off shore. On Saturday morning, while still at the dive shop, I took my O ring from the ziplock bag and cleaned and greased it. Visual inspection turned up no concerns. I sealed the camera into the housing prior to putting it back into the pelican case and then transporting it to the boat.
After on the boat, I assembled the camera, tray, arms, and strobes. Not once did I break the seal on the housing. I placed the setup in the small freshwater camera tank. 3 other people had placed their cameras in the same tank after mine. It was a rough ride out to the site and the cameras were moving around quite a bit.
I was the first to enter the water on the first dive. As I didnt have a partner, I decided to solo dive - carrying my pony of course. The DM on the boat handed me my camera after I entered the water. I swam to the hang line and started toward the anchor line and glanced at my housing. I noticed several drops of water in the housing. Against my urge to shoot to the surface, I made my way back along the hang line to the stern and ascended. I handed the camera to the DM, told him what happened and finished my dive.
Upon finishing my dive, I retrieved my camera. The housing had indeed flooded. There was almost 1/4" water in the bottom of the housing and the "gel-dry" pack was completely soaked. I tried to turn on the camera and nothing happened. I opened the battery case and removed the battery and water came out of the camera. Same thing with the 16GB SD card.
Remembering some of the posts from this site, as soon as I returned to the dock, I flooded the camera again with freshwater. I actually opened the battery compartment and put the camera under the faucet and then shook as much as I could out of it. I did this twice.
As soon as I got back to my camper, I lit the pilot light in the oven and put the camera inside. I let it sit in there for almost 13 hours. I'm guessing, but I would say the temp was about 125 degrees. To my surprise, I put in a new battery and the camera turned on.
To this point, after an hour or so of testing, the only thing I have found wrong with the camera is that it wont save the time / date. I'm assuming this is probably the internal battery being dead. Either way it doesn't affect the operation of the camera.
Thought I would share this important experience.
