Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)
Well... at 12K feet down the water temperature is just above freezing (4 degrees C). It seems like that would pretty much make the ambient temperature inside a case pretty cold... especially if the case is metallic.
I thik the heat would be manageable in that situation... Probably better than most conventional underwater applications where the water is a lot warmer and the camera is still stuffed into an aluminum can. Probably wouldn't be too difficult to test on the surface - place camera in the can, place can in the fridge in a tub of water or test the camera out in the can submerged in a bucket of ice water and see if it overheats.
More than heat, I would be concerned with condensation inside of the can as temperatures drop closer to freezing. But I'm going to assume you've sent cameras this deep before and already know what you're doing... I haven't -- sounds like fun. At depths of 12K feet though, that's really getting down there...
We are in development. So we'll be able to let everyone know about this kind of extreme environment application once we've had an opportunty to conduct approprite tests.