A survey by Goo research shows that more than one in ten Japanese people have dropped some electronic gear in the ocean.

The survey, conducted in July showed 47.1 percent of the electronic gear lost was a mobile phone, 34.3 percent lost a camera, and ten percent a video recorder.

Of the 1,051 people surveyed 55.6 per ent said that they would take a mobile phone to the beach and just over half say they would take a digital camera.

After their gear got wet, over a third removed the battery and left it to dry and a third just turned it on to see how it was.   A daft 3 percent dismantled it, washed it in fresh water and left it to dry. 

In most cases the gear was destroyed, although 32 per cent said that they could use some features afterwards.  Only 15 percent of electronic gear survived a brush with the great deep.

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