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Product category: Plugs and Sockets
News Release from: Fischer Connectors | Subject: Waterproof connectors
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 26 August 2002

Connectors make it round the world

An onboard camera system mounted in each of the computing craft in the Volvo Ocean Race owes its reliability in part to waterproof connectors.

BHP Sport of Milton Keynes was chosen to supply and design a complete onboard camera system for this, the most demanding round the world race Fischer connectors were used on all eight boats of the Volvo Ocean Race 2001/02

The race lasted nine months and went round the world.

The conditions were extremely hostile at times not one failur