I know that you're more experienced than me that's for sure jscovyers, but I remember some water went in my bold 9k while I was showering, most of my commands didn't work so I left the batter out and left it like that for ~8 hours, woke up, and the phone was doing good. So I hardly believe that water could damage it. :o Most of my old phones (samsung, nokia) worked fine after a few hours since water went into them. So that's the same thing for Blackberry I believe.