P3D Re: Cameras in water

[Ronald Beck <ronald-beck@xxxxxx>]

One recommendation.  If you drop a camera in salt water, immediately
upon retrieval, get it into fresh water!  There is a better possibility
of cleaning up a camera that's been soaked in fresh water than the
corrosive nature of salt water.

We ALWAYS put our dive cameras into a fresh water bucket on returning to
the dive boat.  This assured that the salt water was washed off.  While
the water might short something out in the camera, the salt water will
definitely corrode any copper in the camera.

Hope this helps,
Ron

> Yup - my dad once dropped a brand new 16mm Bolex Movie Camera with
> stereo adapter into the Gulf of Mexico off a dock. It was retrieved,
> but of course was junk.
> 
> Sigh - just to think we *almost* had 16mm stereo movies...


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