Nikon speedlight sb-600 salt water?

My NIKON speedlight feel into ocean water and I wanted to know if it will still work. I took the batterys out right away. Does anybody know what I should do next to save my flash.

ANY camera gear in ocean water is doomed.

The ONLY thing that may have helped is if you had immediately placed the SB-600 into a bucket of fresh water (after removing the batteries) and then take it to a repair shop as soon as you got to shore.

The cost of repair may be more than buying a good reconditioned one from Nikon

Actually, buy a couple gallons of distilled water to rinse out the water. Distilled water will not conduct electricity. Fresh water (out of the tap) will.

after rinsing it, stick it in uncooked, dry rice for a couple of days, changing the rice every day. Rice naturally absorbs water and shout take out all moisture.

don't expect it to work

There's no fixing anything electronic that has been doused in salt water.

When you add salt-water to any dissimilar metals in contact with each other, galvanic current is produced. Galvanic current is what causes corrosion. This is even if the device is powered off. If the device is powered on, galvanic current potentially can be higher.

And that is the issue with the SB-600. Like most modern electronics, even when off, these devices do still consume a bit of current. For instance, the SB-600 is never truly off - it is in a dormant standby mode.

Ever notice that just by inserting the SB-600 onto the hot shoe that it turns on? That is because it is in standby.

At any rate, what this means is that when something such as this gets doused with sea water, it immediately starts to corrode. It only takes seconds for this to begin.

Unfortunately, I know this by experience, as I ruined a camera by leaving it in my swimsuit pocket when swimming. It was in the water perhaps only a minute or two, but when I pulled it out, the contacts on the SD card had already corroded.

Since the camera was kaput, I decided to disassemble it. There was corrosion all over inside.

I think perhaps this is the same case with your SB-600. If you could have immediately flushed it with fresh water, maybe it would have been OK. But since corrosion begins pretty much as soon as you get it wet, you would have had to do this immediately to stand a chance.

You can try the common remedies, but unfortunately, I think the flash is done for.

Too bad to - as that is a particularly nice flash that you can no longer get.

Lower the flag to half-mast and play Taps as you commit your late, lamented SB-600 to its new role as a paper weight. Dry your tears and begin looking for its replacement.