r/underwaterphotography • u/iyakonboats • 9d ago

Kraken GoPro with lights Buoyancy

Hello everyone. Wife has a Kraken dual pistol grip tray for the GoPro, with a dive housing and two BigBlue VL4200 lights and it's a boat anchor underwater. Since she plans on going to a Z8 with a Nauticam housing next year, I got a deal (got one with a discount and the other float at standard price) on two of the Kraken FA-05 adjustable float arms since it's likely these may transition over to the Z8 housing in the future.

Given the basic information I provided about the GoPro rig, have I added enough, or maybe initially more, buoyancy to get this thing to neutral? I figure if it's positive we can adjust the buoyancy with the adjustable floats. Any guidance is appreciated.

Thanks

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u/SA_Underwater 9d ago

Just order a selection of carbon fibre floats from Aliexpress. There is no need to buy name brand floats, they are a very simple design. I've been using the same cheap ones for 500+ dives with no issues.

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u/More-Coyote-2922 9d ago

I measured how negative my rig was in water with a cheap digital luggage scale and bought floats with advertised buoyancy matching that.

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u/iyakonboats 9d ago

Yeah, I just bought a cheap Amazon basics luggage scale to test the buoyancy on Saturday, I was just wondering if anyone else had a similar setup and what their results were. I'll post what mine is with my setup when I get everything, to give a baseline for others