Argh! My buddy and I just got back from a week of cave diving in Mexico. Great time, but the bad news is he flooded his camera.
We both have NikV setups with 15mm lens. But when we cave dive we only bring one setup since only one half of the buddy team takes pix on a dive, the other watches the lines, cave arrows, etc.
We were in Temple of Doom getting ready to be the caboose to our group of 6, when he flashes me frantically. I look down to see him holding up his camera, MINUS the lens! I swim up to the last person in our group to wave bye-bye to let them know we aren't doing the dive and swim back to begin the search for the lens.
I found the lens quickly...thankfully since DAN doesn't cover "lost at sea" equipment. We handed up the lens and camera to the driver and headed in for an abbreviated cave dive just the two of us. We met up with our group by chance and completed the dive with them.
Well...upon return to the villa, we borrowed a laptop and hopped on Southern Nikonos site and found out that both lens and camera are basically toast. Repair would far outweigh cost. Oh well....now we're in wait mode to see what DAN says.....
Have you had good luck with DAN insurance?
We both have NikV setups with 15mm lens. But when we cave dive we only bring one setup since only one half of the buddy team takes pix on a dive, the other watches the lines, cave arrows, etc.
We were in Temple of Doom getting ready to be the caboose to our group of 6, when he flashes me frantically. I look down to see him holding up his camera, MINUS the lens! I swim up to the last person in our group to wave bye-bye to let them know we aren't doing the dive and swim back to begin the search for the lens.
I found the lens quickly...thankfully since DAN doesn't cover "lost at sea" equipment. We handed up the lens and camera to the driver and headed in for an abbreviated cave dive just the two of us. We met up with our group by chance and completed the dive with them.
Well...upon return to the villa, we borrowed a laptop and hopped on Southern Nikonos site and found out that both lens and camera are basically toast. Repair would far outweigh cost. Oh well....now we're in wait mode to see what DAN says.....
Have you had good luck with DAN insurance?