Sealife Dragon Duo 6000 - buoyancy floats needed?

[Chris Ra]

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

Sea Dragon Duo 6000F Set - SeaLife Cameras

6000 lumens for photo, video, and dive The Sea Dragon Duo 6000 underwater lighting set packs an astounding 6000 lumens of brightness using the latest in COB LED technology. Each of the 3000 lumen light heads is automatic; this means they will cancel for a brief moment when a flash or strobe is...

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- Canon G7X compact camera + Canon housing

- two additional Flex-arms

Flex-Connect Arm - SeaLife Cameras

Direct light where ever you need it Expand your underwater camera set with one “click!” - The Flex Arm allows for creative lighting, easy aiming, and reduced backscatter by positioning the flash or light farther away from the camera. Each arm has 100° bending motion and adds 7” of length. The...

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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.

 

[ja_som_tomo]

Hi,

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

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]

 

[Chris Ra]

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.

 

[ja_som_tomo]

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.

 

[ja_som_tomo]

Found one more picture...

 

[Chris Ra]

Found one more picture...

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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).

 

[ja_som_tomo]

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.