Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Model Boating => Topic started by: rmaddock on July 03, 2012, 08:19:36 pm

Title: Now here's a modelling challenge!
Post by: rmaddock on July 03, 2012, 08:19:36 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18684075

Title: Re: Now here's a modelling challenge!
Post by: F4TCT on July 03, 2012, 08:35:12 pm

Lol.

I dont see the point as there must be other ways to take acoustic measurements, and study meteorology, physical oceanography and air-sea interactions, however its still impressive all the same...

Credit where its due an' all...

 :-))

Title: Re: Now here's a modelling challenge!
Post by: Neil on July 03, 2012, 08:56:29 pm

Odd in the extreme........but someone will make a model, if not here, on the other side the pond......good luck to them %% %% %%

Title: Re: Now here's a modelling challenge!
Post by: tobyker on July 03, 2012, 11:20:07 pm

I quite liked the remote controlled fish for ocean sampling - did anyone else pick that up?

Title: Re: Now here's a modelling challenge!
Post by: irishcarguy on July 04, 2012, 06:31:59 am

One wonders what other weird & wonderful & not so wonderful things the Americans have hidden away that we have never seen or heard about. Is this the first anybody has heard of this vessel ?. Someone will build a model for sure, Dave( Norseman) this one is right up your street, I expect you to start the build any day now,LOL. Mick B. PS = If not a build I bet you will be collecting information @ a furious pace.

Title: Re: Now here's a modelling challenge!
Post by: dodgy geezer on July 04, 2012, 11:47:23 am

Quote from: irishcarguy on July 04, 2012, 06:31:59 am

One wonders what other weird & wonderful & not so wonderful things the Americans have hidden away that we have never seen or heard about. Is this the first anybody has heard of this vessel ?. Someone will build a model for sure, Dave( Norseman) this one is right up your street, I expect you to start the build any day now,LOL. Mick B. PS = If not a build I bet you will be collecting information @ a furious pace.

I remember reading a lot about it in the early 1960s in the National Geographic - they did a piece on it when it was new. It was never 'hidden away' - it was just that journalists didn't write much about it after that. Obviously someone has invited a journalist over to California, and suddenly it's news. There are hosts of things in this world that journalists do not know about - as a group they are frequently very badly informed....

I'm not sure that it would be a very useable model. Remember, it has no engines - it's effectively just a habitable buoy. I suspect that the journalist never thought to ask about that feature, and may well not realise this....

Title: Re: Now here's a modelling challenge!
Post by: rmaddock on July 04, 2012, 11:56:41 am

Quote from: dodgy geezer on July 04, 2012, 11:47:23 am

I'm not sure that it would be a very useable model.

That just means you have to build some things to tow it too!  :}

Title: Re: Now here's a modelling challenge!
Post by: Norseman on July 06, 2012, 09:58:53 pm

Plenty of images and sites to go to - but surely a perfect  build for our unterwasser brigade O0

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=floating+instrument+platform+video&hl=en&prmd=imvnsu&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=uU_3T_7GLYLi8AOLutjABw&ved=0CHQQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=671

Title: Re: Now here's a modelling challenge!
Post by: Umi_Ryuzuki on July 07, 2012, 12:50:33 am

A spar buoy or platform is not out of the question.

I built a small spar plat form that can either sit grounded in shallow water, or
with an added 162mm section and a 4.5kilo weight, can float upright and anchored
in deep water.