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Hey Guys, I pretty much know the answer but just want to ask. A friends drone fell in the sea and was fully submerged for a few hours before he got it out. He rinsed it in fresh water and tried cleaning it but it is starting to corrode already. Is there anyway to save this drone by some miracle?
 
Hey Guys, I pretty much know the answer but just want to ask. A friends drone fell in the sea and was fully submerged for a few hours before he got it out. He rinsed it in fresh water and tried cleaning it but it is starting to corrode already. Is there anyway to save this drone by some miracle?
It was dead a few seconds after it dunked.
As you've seen, the damage is done and there's nothing that can be done to save it.
Even worse is the damage you can't see.
 
Hey Guys, I pretty much know the answer but just want to ask. A friends drone fell in the sea and was fully submerged for a few hours before he got it out. He rinsed it in fresh water and tried cleaning it but it is starting to corrode already. Is there anyway to save this drone by some miracle?
"Fly Away" coverage, through DJI Care, is the only miracle available, but only if your "friend" had the foresight to purchase it, and use the bound controller for this unfortunate flight!
 
Scuba diving for over thirty years I have flooded many cameras and dive lights, the trick is to have distilled water available. When I am out on the boat I always have a large ziplock back full of distilled water. If you flood or dunk something, simply shake all the water you can out then put it in the bag of distilled water and leave it. When you get back ashore you remove it, shake the water out, then rinse it a couple more times in fresh distilled water. Then put it somewhere warm to dry out. I have dive lights and digital cameras that still work now 15 years later after being fully submerged in sea water. Rinsing in tap water will do little to delay the corrosion, you have to get rid of that salt altogether.
 
"Fly Away" coverage, through DJI Care, is the only miracle available, but only if your "friend" had the foresight to purchase it, and use the bound controller for this unfortunate flight!
Nah, He did not buy Dji Care so he is stuffed literally
 
Wheter you dunk it in the Tasman, South Pacific, Atlantic or Gulf of America (LOL) salt water kills. You had better flush it with distilled water 30-60 seconds after it hits the water. Fresh water dives are a little different but they still require distilled water. I keep a gallon in my trunk. Not just for potential drops in the drink, but I also use it as windshield washer fluid. Anything other than distilled water will leave crud on your windshield/windscreen. That and you can drink it in a pinch.
 
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Lost mine in the ocean in Aruba a few weeks ago and someone found it next day. I contacted DJI and they had me send it to their repair shop where they evaluated it and then sent me a very reasonable bill for repair. I paid it and they sent me a brand new drone! I promptly purchase DJI care this time. lol.
 
simply shake all the water you can out then put it in the bag of distilled water and leave it.
Had phone in sea water on the boat. took 2 hours to get ashore, then run to hardware shop and got a can of contact cleaner, left it submerged in contact cleaner overnight.
Didn't help. Dead as a brick :(

Also got given an Air2s that went fishing. Only salvageable bits were body panels/plastic arms and maybe a fan that i managed to "unseize".

Salt water = dead electronics
 
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