Sealife Dragon Duo 6000 - buoyancy floats needed?

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Chris Ra

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Hello!

This is a question directed to owners of a Sealife Sea Dragon Duo setup. I plan to use the following equipment for the first time in the ocean:

- Sealife Sea Dragon Duo 6000F


- Canon G7X compact camera + Canon housing

- two additional Flex-arms


Do you use any kind of buoyancy floats with such a setup? I didnt find any any floats, which would fit the flex connect arms properly, so I assume that they are pretty much not needed. Am I correct?

Thank you for your help.
 
Hi,

I cannot find better picture, but this is my rig:

SeaLife-rig.jpg


I had to drill bigger holes into floats to fit flex arms.
Still a little bit negatively buoyant, but better than without them.

I bought floats here: Carbonarm floating ring [FL/RING]
 
Thank you very much for the image. I had similar floats like you, but I wonder how you managed to make the holes bigger? I tried a hole saw, but it had no chance getting through.
 
I don't have much tools so I had to improvise a little bit.
I made the hole bigger with a standard drill bit.
Then I used half round file to make it look better.
And painted with black model colour.
But I'm sure, that there's a better way to do this. :)
 
Found one more picture...

View attachment 772422

Thank you very, very much for your reply. I sort of stole your concept and improvised myself:


I've used buoyancy floats with 60 mm diameter and filled the gap with foam, which I did cut with scissors:


One last question: What is the lens on the side next to your GoPro (not the filter above).
 
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I've used buoyancy floats with 60 mm diameter and filled the gap with foam, which I did cut with scissors:

Hope that the foam won't compress too much underwater and floats will still hold. :)

One last question: What is the lens on the side next to your GoPro (not the filter above).

That's a macro lens from PolarPro - SwitchBlade. But they don't make them anymore as far as I know.
 
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