Hey guys,

On my Seafrogs Salted Line housing (for the A7V if you must know), I have a pretty huge bulkhead "opening" it's M33 so I can literally fit my finger into the housing.

I was thinking of buying a simple USB C male to female cable, stick it to the side inside the opening and maybe a 4cm slack so that I can pull it out when needed and connect a longer USB-C cable to it. I guess if it's hard to look for a 90° FPC USB-C female-to-male cable, I can get the a normal USB-C cable for inside the housing and find a female-to-male for use outside the housing.

Do you think I'm crazy?

I don't seem to find any holes in this idea since it doesn't impact the integrity of any seal since I can close it back with the original screw cap apart from:
A. Not being beautiful
B. Having slack can potentially jam the zoom gear inside (but still no flooded housing)

Does anyone else have any good ideas / can point out to flaws to this idea?

Why would that help? You need to pull vacuum again anyways, so why not just open the backside, connect a USB cable to the camera and do what you need? I rarely remove my camera from the housing, just open the back, connect a cable, pull files and let it charge. Charges quicker than my strobe batteries, so I just let everything run over night (unless its 4 or 5 dives a day, then I switch batteries).

If you want to build a waterproof bulkhead for remote control, that works with some limitations and requires some new parts

4 hours ago, Fabian said:

Why would that help? You need to pull vacuum again anyways, so why not just open the backside, connect a USB cable to the camera and do what you need? I rarely remove my camera from the housing, just open the back, connect a cable, pull files and let it charge. Charges quicker than my strobe batteries, so I just let everything run over night (unless its 4 or 5 dives a day, then I switch batteries).

If you want to build a waterproof bulkhead for remote control, that works with some limitations and requires some new parts

I think it kind of depends, for example say you are diving in Lembeh, well known for black sand getting all over everything, it's probably quicker to clean up the o-ring on the seal plug than pull the o-ring and service it particularly on a clamshell style housing. It's about the same as what you would do on a bulkhead which is also o-ring sealed. I agree though that a bulkhead is a better solution if you can source it.

Thanks for responding guys!

So, yes, as @Chris Ross said - I was thinking about my solution of opening just the bulkhead instead of the backside for this exact reason. In South East Asia some times we do surface intervals on boats (and those boats could be those "thai long tail boats" if you can relate or random beaches - opening up the whole back part of the case can be tricky when it's wet, a small space to work in on the boat, or sand on the beach. Hence why I thought opening the bulkhead would make charging the camera / clearing the memory card during surface intervals a lot easier since its a small opening.

So instead of: finding a table, finding somewhere clean to put the backside of the housing, plugging in the USB / removing the camera to charge / transfer files then making sure 2 large o-rings are clean, vacuum pump test and dive again

With this solution: I just need to put my entire housing into some "cooler bag" I have, open the bulkhead, pull out the USB cable, charge / transfer files then make sure the small o-ring is clean, vacuum pump test and dive.

Anyways, I bought some cables and tiny velcro tape strips to try this - will let you know it goes!

The Kraken USB port is not expensive and then you need not open anything under vacuum.

Wow, thanks for pointing that out @Grantmac ! I wasn't aware of this and you're right, it's not expensive at all! Perhaps this will be my next upgrade since it'll not arrive in time for my Maldives trip!