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In TYBD (the years before digital) I was in Utila, Honduras on a diving vacation. I was using an Ikelite housing with a Nikon N70, the only camera I owned that fit the housing. This also in the days before rechargeable camera batteries but, no worries, I brought three on the trip. Based on past trips, I shouldn't even have to use the second battery, let alone the third.
Then Murphy struck. For some reason, my strobe and camera stopped talking correctly and the camera would never go into non-metering, standby mode. The first battery was dead by the end of the first day. Battery two was toast before noon on day three.
No one carried the correct battery; it was McGyver time. I went to the general store and found AA batteries. Another store had wire. It was back to the room to try to put Humpty Dumpty together again.
With some thin cardboard, the wire, AA cells and duct tape (never travel without duct tape) I was able to rig battery packs that I could fit into the housing and connect to the camera. It didn't look good but it worked.
I lost half a day of shooting but I stil consider it a successful trip.
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