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A way to speed up beached vessel recovery using hull vibration

Plese propagate this idea tot he correct people, if you would:

"DSC Channel, "Extreme Engineering", Episode "Big Easy Rebuild": Tug master, moving a barge back on the water, and other ships pull dragged:

When moving over slidy soil, easy. 900 feet in one day.

When moving over rocks, very slow. Two days for one barge length.

Suggestion to PASS ON to the folks in New Orleans (and other marine or Naval salvage firms):

Consider adding a hull vibrator or two: it might walk the ship.barge free much more quickly.

Similarly for othr land side objects needingto be un-displaced by drag-along.

And speed up the Katrina cleanup.

A secondary method: use the ship's engines, where possible.

Mistune the cycle to selectively tune vibrational focus and amplitude. -- alt.callahans, misc.transport.marine, sci.military.naval, rec.boats, alt.fan.dirk-pitt, gov.us.fema, gov.us.fema.announce, Surviving-in-Louisiana, KatrinaHelp, KatrinaAlliance

roy.crabtree
Jul 9
2006
   

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