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Think this will ever get built (mooted to start in October)
http://vimeo.com/44314094
http://wordlesstech.com/2012/06/22/seaorbiter-rese...
http://vimeo.com/44314094
http://wordlesstech.com/2012/06/22/seaorbiter-rese...
Only if some megalomaniac decides to invest in it so he can adapt it to take over the world, or use it in the next Bond movie.
The top 25 meters of the ocean has been pretty well explored, and there are all sorts of intelligent buoys taking various readings and plotting ocean warming etc, I don't see why you need a massive, expensive, manned vessel to do what any probe dropped off a normal ship can do.
Good luck to him though, be cool if it was built, but I dont really see what benefits having to sustain a big crew would give over something that transmits it's readings and data to a lab on land, especially given how data transfer is reliable and fast in this day and age.
Be a cool pirate ship, if it could rise up to it's full height. You could build a small rowing boat on top of it, and have a couple men sitting in it as you approach a ship, and they demand all the gold, and when they refuse this 50 meter tall ship rises out of the water....or whatever.
The top 25 meters of the ocean has been pretty well explored, and there are all sorts of intelligent buoys taking various readings and plotting ocean warming etc, I don't see why you need a massive, expensive, manned vessel to do what any probe dropped off a normal ship can do.
Good luck to him though, be cool if it was built, but I dont really see what benefits having to sustain a big crew would give over something that transmits it's readings and data to a lab on land, especially given how data transfer is reliable and fast in this day and age.
Be a cool pirate ship, if it could rise up to it's full height. You could build a small rowing boat on top of it, and have a couple men sitting in it as you approach a ship, and they demand all the gold, and when they refuse this 50 meter tall ship rises out of the water....or whatever.
Edited by BananaBok on Thursday 18th April 14:02
Max_Torque said:
Who's going to fund it and what's in it for them?
Other than looking a bit futuristic, i can't really see anything new it brings to the exisiting oceanic research party?
Semi-submersable ships already exisit for example:
That's not a semi-submersable, it's North Korea's first attempt to build a battleship to take the fight to America.Other than looking a bit futuristic, i can't really see anything new it brings to the exisiting oceanic research party?
Semi-submersable ships already exisit for example:
But seriously, that does look damn impressive, never seen a semi-submersable like that before.
Max_Torque said:
Who's going to fund it and what's in it for them?
Other than looking a bit futuristic, i can't really see anything new it brings to the exisiting oceanic research party?
Semi-submersable ships already exisit for example:
FLIP could do with replacing though - over 50 years old and needs a tow to where ever it's going...Other than looking a bit futuristic, i can't really see anything new it brings to the exisiting oceanic research party?
Semi-submersable ships already exisit for example:
Although at least it looks built for the job, that new one seems to have far more 'form over function'.
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