In addition to the port flooding incident my heart was also made to race in Thailand when I dropped the back plate of my housing and snapped a push button control on my Subal. This cause the button to fall out and a gaping hole to appear in the back plate of my housing! 
I only dropped the housing back from the height of a couple of inches. It slipped from my hand as I was taking it off and the inside of the control caught the strobe arm and snapped. It seemed a totally freak accident - and I am curious if anyone else has had a similar one.
The button in question was the delete button - and many jokes were made at how my overuse of this control probably contributed to its weakness. 
I was able to reinsert the button and hold it in place with some homemade plastic washers (thanks to Anthony Holley) for his tools and materials.
And it was a totally reliable seal after that time. Although I lost the use of the control (not a problem as I don't take bad pictures 
).
Despite these minor incident I did manage to get the odd decent image in Thailand. I'll post some soon.
Alex
