Craig Jungers wrote: > Well, well. Isn't that interesting. Since there was water inside his SPOT > (and that caused it to fail) and since the SPOT just *has* to be water tight > to 3 feet or 30 minutes, then he *must* have abused it by either having it > under water longer or deeper. Case closed. As one of the respondents on Andrew's site said, "That blows!" Later on in the responses, I think Andrew indicated SPOT offered him a new one for $600, inasmuch as his subscription is valid for a while yet. In contrast, other manufacturers of marine electronics honor that water intrusion rating. Garmin will replace the first GPS you get wet internally. Not sure about the second one. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Oct 01 2008 - 09:54:57 PDT
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