An Interesting Article...Ship Salvage

[Cheese]

https://www.wired.com/2008/02/ff-seacowboys/

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[RJNeal]

Thanks cheese for posting. I woke up around 0130 this morning and read about half of it then finish reading during day lite hours.
Very interesting
Rick.

 

[Cheese]

Ya it’s a weird deal. Most stories start off with a subject and you can usually figure out the result. This took me by surprise...this is reality TV in its most raw sense. More than reality TV, a person died in his effort to secure funding from an insurer.

 

[tiralie]

Great article. Very well written. You really get a sense of how big these ships are and how dangerous this work is. This wasn't even the largest ship they rescued.
Clearly the Titan guys are well recruited.
I did read that Rich Habib, the director of this rescue died in a snowboarding accident in 2016.
Tim

 

[Cheese]

I did read that Rich Habib, the director of this rescue died in a snowboarding accident in 2016.

Did not know that Tim...  [sad]  [sad]. I always find it interesting the extremes some people go to right the wrongs of others.

 

[Cheese]

The Daily Tot.
https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/z4gqge/a-brief-history-of-drunken-british-sailors

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[Cheese]

Here's something I stumbled on. A full sized Bugatti Chiron built from Legos and NO glue. This thing was made from 1 Million Legos & 2300 electric toy motors. It's capable of holding 2 people and traveling at 18 MPH.  [cool]
https://gizmodo.com/marvel-at-this-drivable-bugatti-chiron-built-from-a-mil-1828680513

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[Cheese]

Sinkholes: When the Earth Opens Up

I think #12 from Japan is probably the most devastating while #3 from Guatemala is probably the creepiest.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/08/sinkholes-when-the-earth-opens-up/568762/

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[Cheese]

For you camera buffs out there here’s a guy that made a pin hole camera and used a Unitas watch movement as the shutter timer. Pretty interesting stuff.
https://wornandwound.com/heartbeat-by-kwanghun-hyun/

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[Cheese]

Here's a story I just couldn't put down. It's a general background on deep-water diving in which a diver will descend 900 feet in 11 minutes (that's 1.4 feet per second) yet will have to stay in the water for 9-11 hours to fully decompress. That's a high price to pay for an 11 minute adrenalin rush.

This story however, has a twist and that's the reason I couldn't stop reading it. To say it's compelling is an understatement.  [jawdrop]
https://www.outsideonline.com/1922711/raising-dead

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[Koamolly]

I started diving in the sixties.  Ended up a fisherman collecting reef fish and shipping them all over the world.  No idea how many thousands of dives I’ve done.  There are a few guys I know using rebreathers to collect in the 500 ft range for rare stuff or looking for new species.  Incredibly risky.  Throughout the years I’ve known many divers who have died while diving, been lost or have been paralyzed or have permanent damage from getting bent.  Everyone with near misses.

 

[Cheese]

With the upcoming 50 year anniversary of the moon landing, I spotted this article.

The Apollo 10 crew was given the task to do everything that the 2 month later Apollo 11 crew was tasked with except for one thing..."You can't land on the moon".
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/science/apollo-10-moon-nasa.html

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[Slowlearner]

Woww that ship salvage is amazing. They need to make that a show. I love the shows when guys have to think on their feet and fix things on the fly like gold rush and deadliest catch. I understand some of it is scripted or overhyped but some of it isnt.
  Someone take this idea to Discovery channel!!!

 

[Cheese]

Fair warning, this is a pretty intense video both in it's filming style and in its overall message.

From 1946 to 1992 over 14,000 US troops were exposed to nuclear radiation in over 1000 US military tests.

All the service members involved were admonished by the US military to never tell ANYONE about what they'd seen and were also instructed to never discuss it between the individual service members. If they did, a $10,000 fine and a charge of treason would be levied against them.

 

[Cheese]

Here's an interesting run-up to the last article "Atomic Veterans".

It seems that near St. Petersburg Russia, behind a rusted fence & gates, there's an old Russian military radio station, MDZhB, that no one claims to run. Yet it has been broadcasting a weird signal, 24/7 for the last 37 years.

When the Buzzer is broadcasting, you can hear the signal here:
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=4625

The entire BBC article is here:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170801-the-ghostly-radio-station-that-no-one-claims-to-run

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[Cheese]

Lyon & Healy, located in Chicago, have been building wooden harps by hand since 1889. The neck & body are hard maple while the sound board is Sitka spruce. The string pull can exceed 2000 PSI and there are almost 2000 individual parts in a Concert Grand harp. 

The 23-karat gold leaf is applied by hand with a squirrel-hair brush thanks to static electricity.

With all of the hand work involved, a harp can cost over $100,000 and takes about a year to construct.
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2019/The-Chicago-Harp-That-Rules-the-World/

Here's the Lyon & Healy website:
https://www.lyonhealy.com/lyon-healy-harps/harps-maker-company-history/

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[semenza]

There is a NOVA episode on salvaging the Costa Concordia that is quite good.

The Lego car ..................................  now that is something that could be re-purposed when you've had your fill of driving it!  [smile]

Seth

 

[Cheese]

The Lego car ..................................  now that is something that could be re-purposed when you've had your fill of driving it!  [smile]

Seth

That's funny...

 

[Cheese]

Now this is interesting. The simple chore of looking at a watch and determining the time is now up for grabs. This all makes sense with the proliferation of digital devices. Still, it makes one stop and think....

So here's a shot of 2 watches both telling the same story. A Rolex Explorer II declaring it's 5:03 in analog form somewhere in the world and a Casio displaying the same time in digital form but in the 24 hour format.  Actually, the Rolex is also displaying the time in the same 24 hour format if you look at the red hand with the white triangle at the end. The traditional hour hand displays the 12 hour time while the red hand with the triangle displays the 24 hour time. This function is called GMT.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...tion-loses-ability-to-tell-the-time-330j5sskf

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[rmhinden]

Now this is interesting. The simple chore of looking at a watch and determining the time is now up for grabs. This all makes sense with the proliferation of digital devices. Still, it makes one stop and think....

Interesting.  However, I note that for devices like the Apple Watch, many of the built in watch faces are ones with hands, not digital numbers.  We have come a long way from the Casio.  Some even look like a Rolex watch face

Bob