Affordable Syntactic Foam options or Macroballoon sources?

Waterproof Housing, Frames, and Buoyancy Methods.
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TigerShark
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Re: Affordable Syntactic Foam options or Macroballoon source

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After checking the Bluerobotics site, it looks like it would cost at least $100 to do my float. Too much unless it would be full depth capable (about 1500 feet in my case with safety factor) My max operating depth will be 1000'.
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Re: Affordable Syntactic Foam options or Macroballoon source

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TigerShark wrote:My fiberglass covered foam insulation board didn't make it to 65 feet without crushing quite a bit. Lots of small bubbles when I brought it back up and it was a lot heavier!
Good to know, I kinda had a feeling that would happen... maybe I'll scrap that idea before I waste to much effort on it. I might just have to give that Blue robotics stuff a shot.

-Steve :sting:
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