Just realized a cheap camera housing trick for deep checks

Been fighting with fogged up housings on 100ft+ dives in Seattle until I tossed in a silica pack from beef jerky - crystal clear every time now. Anyone else got a random hack that saved you gear money?

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thomas1053d ago

...so my buddy Carl stuffed a hand warmer packet in his housing on a whim and it basically saved a whole trip off Vancouver Island, camera stayed bone dry down to 130 feet while his backup fogged up like a bathroom mirror. He said it wasn't even a silica thing, just that cheap chemical heat maybe sucked up moisture somehow, but he swore by it until he lost the whole rig off a boat a year later. Funny how random junk works when fancy gear fails, right?

william_taylor3d ago

Man, that's wild. I've heard about people using those hand warmers for all sorts of weird stuff, but never in a camera housing. Makes you wonder if the heat just dried the air out enough that moisture couldn't condense on the glass. I remember a buddy of mine used to put a little packet of rice in his tackle box for the same reason, but that seems way less reliable than a chemical reaction that actually cranks out heat. It's funny how the stuff you'd never think would work ends up being the trick, and then the expensive gear just craps out on you.