Monday, November 10, 2008
Ships
Things have been really busy at work recently but I managed to get off to Greece last week to work out of the office there, meet some clients and go crawling around a bunch of ships. It was really good to get to see all the ships and the different bits and pieces that go to make them up and make them move. I took loads of photos (yes, I know some of them are a bit nerdy such as ladders, cranes and inside tanks), which are up on flickr but a couple below give you an idea of the things I work with everyday. The crankshaft I am sitting on below was worth about a million dollars until the steel in the centre cracked (doh!).
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Sounds like real fun, Al. You look like you're having a blast.
I went to a talk about the maritime Arctic at iMarEST a few weeks back and they had some fascinating talk about some Finnish built ships that have propulsion at both ends. Sounds bizarre, esp to layman, but I *think* I can see the point:
http://www.rerisk.net/2008/09/20/the-new-maritime-arctic/
[you have to scroll about 2/3 of the way down]
Keep up the fun,
Jolyon
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