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Completely submerged! Drone survived.

GeraldV

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Was messing about with the drone today and as the battery got lower decided to do some low shots of a fountain. Battery was extremely low; I remember seeing just over a minute flight time left but was flying maybe 1.5m high and about 10m away from me so no drama.

I dont know what happened next but the drone decided to take a dive and ended up submerged. Flew out on its own steam so landed it and removed battery. Allowed it to dry out for half an hour and turned it back on with a fresh battery. Flight was ok but the gimbal certainly was not. Would jerk around and show gimbal overload in app.

Brought drone home and left it out in the sun for a couple of hours to dry out and amazingly everything is back working.

Can see the "bath" here:

 
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