Swellpro Splash Drone

[slr001]

Have you guys seen this? Pretty slick device. Somewhat specialized though, seems to be a one trick pony. But it is a pretty cool trick.

Waterproof, floating drone. Land it on the water easily or splash it... It rights itself, films underwater. And then lifts off again.

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[GerdS]

Nothing new, the SplashDrone (or Mariner II) is available since about 2 years already. They just made some improvements such as the new cover with integrated GPS antenna while in earlier versions the GPS antenna was within the fuselage. with flat cover.
I have a Mariner II since summer 2015, but equipped with a Xaircraft MiniX flight controller instead of their (assumed) PixHawk based one. And my 5.8GHz transmitter is placed above the cover to have room for a SP antenna instead of using an overpowered 600mW tx inside with just a cable antenna.
Here you can see takeoff and landing on water:

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