Leak Insure

Peter Rowlands · Issue 93, Nov/Dec 2016 · pp. 32–33

Products mentioned: Leak Insure, Leak Insure Standard, Leak Insure Slim, Leak Insure Mini, Leak Insure Shorty, Leak Insure Go-Strips

“The longer you have been taking underwater photographs, the nearer to a flood you will be.” So goes the old saying and I think it’s true that inevitably you will, one day, experience a flood. There are three main types of flood; the first being the instant filling up of a housing, almost certainly due to user error, secondly the slight leak most likely from something across the main O ring such as a hair or fibres and finally, not strictly a leak, but condensation caused by slightly moist air inside a housing being heated up by direct sunlight or heat generated by the camera. Nothing is going to save you from the first and there is a choice of methods for the second and third but only one product will effectively protect you from both and that is a sachet of Leak Insure. Traditionally sanitary towels have been used to absorb any slight leaks and silica gel sachets have been used to abso…