Can you solve the BOWL RIDDLE? ft. Kurt Hugo Schneider Part 1/3

There is a simplified solution at the end if you don't want to go through all of this: 
Put the bowl on a big spring with a large spring constant. Compress the spring with the bowl on top as much as possible and let go. As soon as the bowl loses the spring it is weightless and so is the water inside and the ball. Thus buoyancy vanishes. Also there will be an initial lag in the transmission of the upward momentum to the ball and it will initially start dipping in the water as the water around it accelerates upwards. 
Now hope that the spring let's go of the bowl (and the upward buoyancy force stops acting) before it overpowers the will (inertia) of the ball to go downwards. 


OR 

If the spring constant is really large, like infinite (a physics person's best friend), then the instantaneously infinite change in the bowls momentum will push the ball to the bottom. 
For a more realistic system though I think the first solution would work. 
Comments are welcome.