This is a small research project I did for a Soft Robotics grad class (UCSD MAE 249).
The report and testing setup are bellow.
Through my experiment, I found that Soft Pneumatic Actuators (Bellows) with flexible but slightly stiff walls are not severely effected by water depth.
In other words, the displacement of the end of the actuator, as the actuator goes deeper into water, does not reduce as fast as the outside pressure of the F= pgh equation, since the displacement of the bellows I tested were dominated by the stiffness of the walls of the bellows.
Dry setup with the fishing line setting the depth of the test scale, and a tube connected to the bellows for pressure adjustment.
Test bellows (soft actuators) were printed with different material softness and wall sizes for comparison.