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A Pressurizing Device for a Camera Case Designed for Use in Shallow Water

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

D. J. Scarratt
Affiliation:
Zoology Department, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth

Extract

With the exception of a few specially designed models, most under-water cameras today employ no means of pressurizing, or at best merely have a Schrader valve fitted to the case which can then be pressurized, prior to each dive, with a few strokes of a bicycle pump. This method has one severe drawback in that the majority of camera cases are better able to withstand external rather than internal pressure. The chances of a case exploding or blowing a gasket while pressurized prior to a dive are far greater than those of implosion of a non-pressurized case in a comparable depth of water.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1961

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