Alan’s Blog

My Ikelite DS-125 strobes come in two pieces, the expensive head bit with all the extremely expensive electronics and a relatively inexpensive (relatively is the key word) battery compartment. Now what I didn't know is that the expensive electronics are sealed from the batteries. It says this in the manual and if I had known this when my strobe showed signs of flooding I would have got straight out of the water and would have had a chance to rescue the electronics.

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Progress has been slow in my quest to take a decent underwater cave photo. A lot of travelling and othe distractions have kept my cave diving gear dry for longer than I would like.I took one of the strobes into the ocean and had a nasty flood where I learned a valuable lesson.

Back to the cave

With one strobe and a far more solid tripod mount I headed back to Cenote Taj Majal. I decided that around 10 am would be a good time in August to catch a few nice rays and around 11ish I would get some of the nice vertical beams coming down into the dome rooms.

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