Now that I think of it, I'm lucky my gear works at all. lol
I've had a camera drop off of a lens mounted to a tripod to a dirt road, now I tether them together.
I was wading through the surf to get on a boat for whale watching when a guide thought my camera bag was full of towels and decided to shot put it into the boat, it took two other guides to hold me off as he ran back up to the beach. (no damage)
My brother in law picked up my bag to see how heavy it was and then dropped it from a few inches, no damage.
I was changing lenses and had one in my lap, it dropped to the steel deck of the boat, slight ding.
I was touring some mangrove swamps when the boat driver started to tilt the boat as much as possible to scare the tourist, I had two set ups, one wide and one for tele sitting between my legs. He tilted so much that I had to adjust my position and the whole thing dropped to the bottom of the boat. He didn't speak English, but in a few seconds, he understood to slow down and stop messing around. Scuff to hood.
The last one is when we were broadsided while I was holding the gear. It flew out of my hand and bounced around the truck. I picked it up and took shots of the accident.
Like I said it's amazing my gear works at all.
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