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2.5m diameter is very much a space rocket size. I'm guessing part of booster fuel tank.
better article.
What's the fibre pattern on the dome part I wonder? Looks like some kind of carbon fibre maybe around the top in the video.
I wonder why it was buoyant. Like if it's just the sheared off end of a cylinder you'd think it would just sink?
IDK enough about anything to say "I reckon it's x", but if it's not rocket parts then my guess would be some kind of reusable buoyancy tank used for things like floating foundations into place, shipbreaking yards, that sort of stuff.
Something doesn't have to be buoyant to wash up on shore.
I’m the photos one can clearly see a line where part of the object was out of the water, since there’s no barnacles above that line. Also, if one were to read the article linked, one would read
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