the squalus rescue
squalus was a sub that started taking on water n a chunk of the people aboard died but fast acting ppl aboard sealed off the part that was taking on water n they lived so they sent down a diving bell/rescue chamber to retrieve the survivors n buoyed the sub back up n patchworked it n renamed it to sailfish
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almost rated this with the cripple emoji
you would never see me again
its next to a major shipyard and a coal terminal so no idea how nice it would be....
joe scott talks about ghost ships (there were a LOT of them, he only takes a few examples here, and some were just urban legends)
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joe scott talks about ghost ships (there were a LOT of them, he only takes a few examples here, and some were just urban legends)
True Unexplained Stories of Ghost Ships
The ocean is wide and mysterious, and for hundreds of years, sailors, explorers, and merchants have disappeared beneath the waves or met mysterious ends on their ships. These tales have been passed down and become part of seafaring folklore and superstition. But they all have wild back stories...
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there was a shipyard in my hometown, i mean...
the puget sound area is huge for commerce
i remember when i did my monthly sailing trip back in high school (youth program for navigating an old wooden sail vessel. no electricity. dependent on weather) n we had to cross a freighter and seeing one of those giant iron beasts heading toward us as we pulled out is cemented in my brain. awestruck
missed the titanic anniversary stream the other day, but here's my friend mike brady from oceanliner designs visiting the archives. this is also neat to see because the curator woman talks about how they have to preserve these items, including an intact piece of perfectly legible sheet music
Heidi the girl
Ediot
I don't know where to put this, so I'll put it here since its ship based.
I learned about the unit of measurement created by Isaac Asimov called the Helen.
en.wikipedia.org
One Helen is the beauty it takes to launch 1000 ships. So a millihelen is the amount of beauty it takes to launch a single ship.
And −1 millihelen is the amount of ugliness it takes to sink a ship.
How many boats would you launch/sink?
I learned about the unit of measurement created by Isaac Asimov called the Helen.
Helen (unit) - Wikipedia
One Helen is the beauty it takes to launch 1000 ships. So a millihelen is the amount of beauty it takes to launch a single ship.
And −1 millihelen is the amount of ugliness it takes to sink a ship.
How many boats would you launch/sink?
the importance of careening your vessel:
this routine maintenance procedure involves leaning your ship over cuz it's just "oh, so sleepy uwu" and rubbing its belly
no matter if made of metal, because barnacles will eat through the hull
or wood, because of shipworms
i had forgot shipworms were a thing that existed... but apparently they are a delicacy that some ppl eat... raw
this routine maintenance procedure involves leaning your ship over cuz it's just "oh, so sleepy uwu" and rubbing its belly
no matter if made of metal, because barnacles will eat through the hull
or wood, because of shipworms
i had forgot shipworms were a thing that existed... but apparently they are a delicacy that some ppl eat... raw
Heidi the girl
Ediot
I guess I could have waited a month to post this, but NW passage was talked about.
it mentions the clickspring channel, that guy obsessed over making a reproduction for years and put it all on YT
(warning: will make the eyes glaze over)
(warning: will make the eyes glaze over)
Heidi the girl
Ediot
I've been fascinated by the Antikythera mechanism. There were stories in history where one army knew that a solar eclipse was going to happen, probably through the use of a similar device, and told their soldiers beforehand, whereas the other army took it as a bad omen and panicked during battle.
Could be apocryphal, but the fact that people had a single wind up device that could correctly measure the position of all of the planets, the phases of the moon, predict eclipses based on an input for a specific day in an ancient gear driven machine is pretty incredible. It is the primary thing that showed that the ancients were much more advanced than we gave credit for and maybe there were a lot of other technologies that were lost forever because of the fall of the classical world.