Joined: Fri Dec 19 2003 Location: Scotland Posts: 4651
We need to prepare for the comming invasion, everyone stock up with food and water, sharpen your garden fork, wear the bedpan as a helmet and get a recording of this...
Joined: Wed Oct 11 2006 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 635
This one they Showed us at work (I'm in ships construction). The camera is mounted at the beginning of a hallway inside a container vessel. The ship is navigating through a storm. What you see is the actual " Bending and Flexing " of the ship...
The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on my list.
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Joined: Fri Oct 29 2004 Location: Baton Rouge, LA USA Posts: 1490
The early welded liberty ships of WWII did break apart in heavy seas and new welding procedures had to be put in place to allow them to hold up under heavy stresses. In the end over 2700 liberty ships were built at a cost of about $2,000,000 each.