possible to get atmospheric/seismic analysis in a water biome?

[king of nowhere]

I just landed my exploration plane on laythe, and i just discovered that the seismometer and atmospheric spectrovariometer won't work. some more experiments on kerbin discovered that they just won't work on water. Being determined to get as much science as possible from it, I wonder if there is a way to make those measures on a water biome? what if i manage to dive to the bottom of the sea?

[jimmymcgoochie]

I don't think the atmowhatsit- forget it, I'm calling it the AFSV- will work when in contact with water, but you can get seismic data from water biomes if you manage to touch the sea floor. Put a seismometer on a probe core, add an ore tank to the bottom and fill it with ore (better to do this with a small drill if you're trying it not on Kerbin, ore is heavy!); that should sink to the bottom, get the seismic readings then dump the ore to make it float to the surface again, retrieve and repeat if necessary.