The deadweight tester had an accuracy of better than O.5 psi. I for details. Summary of Float Deployments and Performance. This would result in 36 floats being deployed - twelve in each level. For reasons described below, the final distribution of floats was somewhat different than this.
Table IIa Table IIb Table IIc summarize the important parameters for all float deployments.
Also note that the float numerical sequence is not always the same as the launch sequence. The absence of a bailout circuit for these floats makes it sometimes difficult to determine an exact cause of failure. Seven floats failed entirely - i.e. they were never heard from after deployment. We suspect that the cause of these failures can be traced to float flooding due to leakage through the burn-wire release that was initially used. In late 1991 we noticed several cases where floats had leaked during ballasting.