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A few weeks ago, I spent 40 of my
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hard-earned pounds on this 80m rated
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GoPro housing from AliExpress.
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Now, I posted something about it on my
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uh social media channels and lots of
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people were very interested to kind of
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hear how I'd got on because I think, you
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know, most people assume that you've got
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to pay a lot more money to get a really
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good housing for something like a GoPro,
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you know, or other action cameras. These
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are available for pretty much pretty
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much all the major action cameras. So,
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uh, as you would expect with me, what
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I've done is I've taken it deep and I've
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tested it. And this camera, this housing
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here, the one you're seeing here, has
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been to 85 m. All the buttons worked.
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Uh, didn't leak and it's been absolutely
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uh, fine. So, bottom line is I really
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like it. I think probably there's a
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quite a healthy level of skepticism
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amongst people about this. So, I guess
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there's a few things I just want to kind
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of show you. And hopefully you can see.
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I mean, the first one is this isn't made
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of plastic. This is made of some sort of
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alloy, you know. So, it's it feels a lot
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heavier than you think it's going to be.
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It also feels pretty substantial as
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well. The uh the clip on the top is
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actually so difficult to undo. You can
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feel there that it actually took me a
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bit of effort. So, there's a there's a
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good spring on it, which is really nice.
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Probably something that's slightly
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unusual is it opens from the front. Most
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of these things tend to open from the
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back, but I don't think that's a big
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issue. Um, and and as you've seen there,
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the um, it's got a really nice, decent
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size clamp on it, so I think that
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inspires confidence. The buttons on it,
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you see, I mean, I like this. I like the
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fact that the buttons are red, so
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they're easy to see. So, this thing has
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been with me to 80 odd meters, as I say,
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probably 85 maximum, and without uh, any
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problems at all. Rick Eton, who I dive
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with, has also uh got got one of these,
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and his has been on the same dives as
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mine. So, there's at least two there of
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these things that have survived pretty
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uh pretty well. So, you know, I think
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that's uh that's really positive. The
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one thing I said I was going to do that
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I've not done yet is to take this to 100
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m. I just haven't had the opportunity.
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The uh the weather has canceled all the
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really deep dives. So, would I take it
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to 100 m? I absolutely would cuz I'm
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confident, you know, it just it just
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seems really wellm made and really good
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good quality to me. Having said that, a
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few people did report on my social media
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stuff that they'd had problems with
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these things leaking or flooding. Some
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at depth shallower than that, some at
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that kind of depth. So, I don't know.
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Maybe sometimes there's issues with
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manufacturing or whatever. Or maybe I've
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just been lucky. I don't know. But to be
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honest, I think all housings um are
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going to leak at some point and they
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all, you know, it is one of those
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things. Sometimes this kind of stuff
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leaks. So, I don't know. I shall uh I
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shall, you know, have to wait and see.
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I'm so confident though and I like it so
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much that I bought one of these for my
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Insta 360 Ace Pro 2, which is obviously
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my new action cam. So, I am going to uh,
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you know, give that a go and I will take
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that to 100 m as well. So, there you go.
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Now, if you are interested in getting
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yourself one of these, um, then I've put
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a link in the description and there's
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also a link somewhere up here as well,
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so you can, uh, you can go and, you
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know, find out and buy yourself one.
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What I'd also like to say is if you've
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used one and you've had experiences,
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either good or bad, I'd be really keen
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to hear it. So, please, you know, stick
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something in the comments. Um, I'm sure
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lots of other people enjoy reading it as
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well. So, um, you know, give us your
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feedback. Let's all get together. Let's
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all tell each other, you know, how we've
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got on. There are other versions of this
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online as well, you know, so similar
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ones by different manufacturers. And
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once again, some people have um, you
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know, said, "What about this one or what
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about that one?" So, you know, once
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again, let's uh let's all kind of uh
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tell each other our thoughts and, you
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know, we'll all gain from each other's
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experiences hopefully. But, so there you
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go. This is it. This is the budget 80m
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AliExpress housing that I have tried
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taken diving and uh and so far it's
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definitely got my seal of approval.
