Vivid Housings Leak Sentinel

Ron Lucas · Issue 84, May/Jun 2015 · pp. 36–38

Products mentioned: Leak Sentinel V3, Leak Sentinel V4, Nauticam housing, DeepPro GoPro housing, Vivid Housings

If you are like me, you probably carry many thousands of dollars of underwater camera equipment to your dive destinations. I have little room for clothes after my camera outfit and scuba gear are packed. I have no space for a spare set up in case of a flood. The last thing I want to worry about when I dive, but will anyway, is the housing leaking. I got serious housing envy when I met John on a 2014 vacation to South of Komodo. He had a Nauticam housing with the manufacturer’s new pre dive vacuum leak detector fitted. John took pleasure in showing the confirmation light on the back of the housing before dives! It just made so much sense. In non technical terms pre dive vacuum leak detectors work by registering air pressure before and after vacuuming sufficient air out of a housing. This is possible because housings are sealed to the water and air by O rings. Lights or pressure gauges ref…