robbcayman
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I am sitting in the office one day and one of our divers walks in with her camera. She tells me,
Diver: "Pedro said that you are the camera expert on staff, so you could probably help me out with this."
Me: "sure, what do you need help with?"
Diver: "Well, as soon as I got down, the display went blank and the camera quit working."
Me: "I said, let me look at it" - so she hands me the camera and the first thing I do is open the battery and card compartment. There was water and already some corrosion going on.
Me: "It looks like your camera flooded. Which housing do you have and did you bring it wioth you? Did you see any water in the housing during the dive or when you removed the camera from the housing.?"
Diver: Looked at me as if I had 3 heads and 1000% serious said "What's a housing?"
I buried my head in my hands and said, "You're not kidding are you?"
She said "no" as she shook her head and looked at me with blank eyes
I pulled the housing I have for rental cameras off the shelf and said, "it looks similar to this, they make them for certain cameras so that you can dive with them and submerge them in water without damaging the camera."
She went into a FIT saying "DAMMIT, THEY TOLD ME it was good to 100 feet" - I can't believe they lied to me!!!!"
I said, well yes, the cameras are also rated to a certain depth due to the pressure changes, but that is with a housing - not the camera alone. And BTW, who is THEY?"
She said: "The guy at Circuit City who sold me the damned piece of crap." (obviously before CC went under)
It didn't get any better after that - she then could not understand why I couldn't recover the pictures she had taken off of the card - she accepted the fact that the camera was toast at that point after being submerged at pressure for TWO dives - but she could not wrap her mind around the fact that there WERE NO pictures to recover because she had not taken any pictures because the camera stopped working almost immediately!!!!!
Talk about an airhead! THe next day, Pedro asked me if she had come to talk to me and had I fixed her camera - he had a smirk on his face. I looked at him and said "WHY didn't you warn me of that one?" hahaha
He ust started laughing! He said, I was trying to be nice to her on the boat, but I couldn't stop laughing when I saw that she had the camera with no housing and didn't understand why it didn't work - so I just sent her to you jefaq?"
To this day, we joke about it and he briefs the divers with cameras to make sure their camera is in the housing! hahahahaa
Are you implying that Circuit City wasn't at fault? lol.. that was a good read.