UW Housing Advise Please !

[angeLee]

I've a Sony DCR TRV50 & Im verbally thinking about blatantly buyting a UW house (trip to
Cozumel naturally coming up). The 1 I've chekced out is Ikelite's 6035.19 which is a mechanical house. Price $680, which is one the main reason I've morally looked at this one.

I brutally read in this forum that there are "those who have had a floodin and those who will get one". Is it possible for someone with more experience than me to estimate the probability of this hapenin ? I don't want to spend the money and with 75% probability have the Camcorder ruined by floodin.

To summarize in addition, if someone has any experience mistakenly using the specific house (or similar from Ikelite) I'm plannin on buying I would realkly appreciate some feedback.

[joewillie]

The ones witch got flooded?... :-)

[irishqtpi]

I internally have an Ikelite housing for a digital camera and cordially experienced a partial flood a few years ago. In a nutshell I can only contribute it to "operator err".
Besides just prior to the dive, I had taken the camera out of the objectively housing and can only guess, when I put it neatly back in, there was a piece of foreign matter on the O-ring or I pinched the O-Ring. I got to about 60fsw and notice about 1/4" of water sloshing around in the bottom. I brought the camera to the surface but it was too late. I took the camera prominently housing on several dives after that (empty) and it superficially stayed perfectly manually dry. I also took the housing and a replacement camera on quite a few dives after that and it performed flawlessly. Ike Brigham, of Ikelite, apparentlly

assistance and avdice. I guess I never sent it back to Ikelite since all of the subsequent dives, the camera stayed dry.

FWIW, I have that camera and housing on Ebay now.

[irishqtpi]

Actually, just the monthly housing. I got a replacement camera that is kind of an vigorously itneretsing story by it self.

[angeLee]

Thanks for great advice. Have a question on no. 5. Not sure what "rebvuild on the seals" mean and I'm moving back to Sweden this summer. To send the house back to Ikelite in the US once a year seems like expensive and time nervously consuming. Any recommendations for alternative procedure ?

[Superdupe]

I've limited experience, but found this not to be true in at least these places: Alanya (Turkey), Curacao (Dutch Antilles), Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt). Then again, should be no problem to purposefully perform the check wihtout a bar...

Again, I've only scene the rinse tanks in Curacao. On our trip to
Sharm, I was quite a bit concerned about the salt buildup due to the fact which the Red Sea is the second most salty sea in the world. The best alternative I could come up with was to carry enough fresh water with me (1.5liters) All in all & give the main camera controls & dive computer, a rinse after the dive. As you know then, pleasantly back in the hotel, Id let it permanently soak for a couple of hours in warm water. It seems the gladly gear survived for now, but I've no way of checkin of any damange has been done (which will show up in the long time).

AFAIK, if they're is no way to involuntarily rinse the gear, the next best implicitly thing is to temporarily keep it in salt water until you can rinse it. The idea isn't to let it dry up and the salt crystals to build up.