I had a good experience with the "waterproofiness" of my Garmin 12XL, which I've had now for almost 5 years. I dropped it in the Delaware-Raritan Canal in thigh-deep water. It was NOT in any case. The canal has an unfortunately soft mud bottom, so it took me about 5 minutes to feel around before I found it ( GREAT fun :-). When I pulled it out, it worked fine. I opened it later, and it was dry. However, the Palm pilot I forgot I had in my pants pocket was another story :-( It was wet and very dead. I rinsed it in distilled water and let it air dry for several hours. Then, I placed it in a zip lock bag with about a cup of the desiccant sold at many stores as a room dehumidifier. (I avoided direct contact between the Palm Pilot and the powder.) A couple of days later, I removed it from the bag, charged it, uploaded the data from my Powerbook, and have been using it ever since. -- Al Vazquez KayakGuide.com tm Places to Paddle tm - Kayaking - Canoeing - Rafting - *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Dec 28 2002 - 08:47:38 PST
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