Homebuilt ROVs Forum

As far as buoyancy and weight go, you can bulk up all you want. As long as you have a buoyant force counter acting the gravity force acting on the heavy items you are fine. An ROV is usually "neutrally buoyant" which means it will neither sink nor float because it has enough buoyant mass ...

Hello all, my name is Kenny and this is my first post. I am a SONAR specialist for a survey company out of south Louisiana. I just finished designing a new tripod for our BV5000 3D sonar, and my boss mentioned how he wished we had an ROV for search and recovery purposes. The wheel started turning an...