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<p>Hi Ryan, I’m sorry to hear about your accident.<br> Something very similar has happened to me a few years back, I fell in a river while holding my Nikon D300 with a Nikon 24-70mm f2.8 lens attached to it, I was fully submerged for only 10 to 15 seconds but was enough for a lot of water to get into both camera and lens.<br> I’ve sent the camera to Nikon for repairs however they could not guaranty that either camera or lens could be repaired or offer any warranty on the work they were performing.<br> I chose not to spend hundreds of dollars without a guaranty that the repairs would work.<br> Several days later when I received the camera back from the workshop I could still see droplets of water in the camera and lens so I’ve tried the bag of rice method but as others have pointed out the rice is not absorbent enough to make any difference for the amount of water that has entered the camera.<br> I would be reluctant to put the camera in the oven to dry because it is very easy to cause heat damage to the plastic, rubber and other camera parts.<br> I took a chance and placed the camera and lens (not connected to each other) on the dashboard of my car and left it in the sun for several days. After a week or so I put in a new battery and turned the camera on, to my surprise the camera came back to life and has worked ever since.<br> The only permanent damage that I am aware of is the on-camera flash which no longer works other than that no problems.<br> The lens on the other hand has not been as lucky, I’m no expert but I suspect that because I left it in the full sun the rubber seals in the lens have softened and got damaged because it is very hard to manually zoom in and out and there are several spots left on the glass inside the lens from the dried water droplets.<br> Strange enough the auto focusing still works great. I no longer use this lens and have since replaced it.<br> Best option would be to have the camera checked by a qualified repairer then decide if it is worth the cost to fix it.<br> You can attempt to take the camera apart let it dry then put it back together and hope it still works, otherwise I suggest you leave it in a sunny well ventilated area to dry for a week or two and then try it.<br> The chances of it working again are slim but you never know. I wish you the best of luck and I sincerely hope you can get it working again.</p>