It's true that no good deed goes unpunished as the thing got dunked while I was helping out some strangers. It was underwater for about five seconds. Soon as I got to the car I pulled out the battery and memory card and when I got home I set up my mom's ancient hairdryer on cool blowing directly into the battery/card hatch for several hours while placing the card and battery in the outflow grill of my window AC which sees a lot of action this time of year. The following day it powered up enough to allow me to get the final pictures off the card (the POLAR boat was the last one) but the screen is dark and the motor which operates the focal length and automatic lens cap apparently shorted out and doesn't operate. Just for the hell of it I tried it again a couple of days ago with my spare battery and there was no improvement. The new camera arrived while I was out this morning but I haven't opened it up yet.