On 2/22/2012 10:12 AM, micky wrote:
About a year ago three was a thread here about how to dry out a
camera, or maybe it was a cellphone, that had been underwater.

Rather than take it apart, someone had sealed it in a

plastic bag

with some other material or substance and let it sit for several days.

I can't remember what the other material was, and googling the
keywords I could thinik of didn't find it.

Any suggestion of the keywords used, or of what to use to dry the
camera.

If I'd known I would need this, I woudl have saved it!! Thanks.

Desiccants can be purchased at craft stores, like Michaels; used for
drying flowers. It would need to be put into a paper or cloth container
to keep the dust out of the camera. First action, though, I would use a
hair dryer on low heat to blow out as much moisture as possible (after
removing the battery and chip)....never done it. The silica gel
desiccant changes color when it has absorbed moisture (blue to pink?)
and is easy to renew by heating in oven at low temp.