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if-you-fan-a-fire · 8 months
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"MINIATURE SUBMARINES, a Shinto Shrine, chopsticks and Jap characters and wrecked Zeroes were all left behind by the hastily departing enemy on Kiska. American bombs that preceded our troop landings accounted for much of the damage to Jap installations. Sgt. Edmond Birdsell of San Francisco tries out the chopsticks on a bowl of Jap rice, stores of which were found by U.S. forces." - from the Kingston Whig-Standard. September 9, 1943. Page 2.
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casposters · 1 year
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(via Inspirational Stuff: Mort Künstler and Shark Week -)
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carbone14 · 11 months
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Sous-marin de poche de la classe CB appartenant à la Quarta Flottiglia MAS de la marine royale italienne (Regia Marina) – Campagne de Crimée - Crimée – Union soviétique - 1942
Photographe : Horst Grund
©Bundesarchiv - N 1603 Bild-289
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playitagin · 11 months
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1942–Attack on Sydney Harbour
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 Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
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petermorwood · 9 months
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Based on reality...ish.
After seeing this post, @elizabethgoudge wondered:
"Wasn't there a real prototype like the Hydra plane in Captain America?"
TL:DR -Yes, there was. Indeed there were several, though "real" is a bit bit up in the air (or not, considering that none of these things ever flew...)
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"Captain America: The First Avenger" based some of its hardware on four or maybe even five Nazi-era prototypes, "real" in the sense of having a nebulous existence as sketches, blueprints, or concept / wind-tunnel models.
The film's design department clearly knew their stuff. They may have used other things instead or as well (there were so MANY), so the following is just my own speculation, based on many years of making many model kits :->
The Hydra mini-sub...
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...seems based on a cross between the (real) "Seehund" midget submarine...
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...and the design-concept Focke-Wulf Ta 283 ramjet aircraft.
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Red Skull's escape plane, though never clearly visible...
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...wasn't just based on but WAS a Focke-Wulf Triebflügel ("powered wings" - meaning the ramjet-driven rotor blades around its waist).
This was a proposed tail-sitter VTOL interceptor where taking off straight up might (?) have been possible, but landing straight down and backwards would invite all sorts of unwanted excitement.
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It also made a brief background appearance in "Loki".
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The Valkyrie flying wing…
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…was based on, and hugely upscaled from, the Horten H.XVIII, one of many pie-in-the-sky "Amerikabomber" projects.
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Resemblance to a Northrop YB-35 (props) / YB-49 (jets)...
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…is coincidence based on form-follows-function, since - and rather importantly - the Northrop planes were built for use by the US Air Force, not the Luftwaffe (though given the way some plotlines went, their use by Hydra is another matter…)
The flying bombs which it carried...
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...seem based partly on a Messerschmitt Me 334 project fighter...
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...and partly on a Sombold So 344 bomber-destroyer, which had the same detachable-bomb arrangement.
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The So 344's explosive nose was meant to be launched into a formation of Allied bombers, after which - despite aerodynamics now wildly out of whack and a bunch of angry escort fighters in hot pursuit - the piloted part would land safely.
Yeah, right...
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Despite "what if...?" suggestions on the "History" Channel that one or other of these contraptions could have "won WW2", they didn't even help to lose it less severely.
IMO their probable main purpose was to keep numerous engineers and designers safe(-ish) with pencil and ruler in workshops and at drawing boards, rather than very much not safe with rifle and grenade on some bomb-and-bullet-swept front line.
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Besides the midget submarine, there's one other exception to all this based-on-paper stuff, and that's Red Skull's car...
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...whose inspiration seems to have been the Mercedes Benz W31 G4 heavy staff car and a Hispano Suiza H6A limousine custom-built in 1923 for the King of Spain.
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All of which goes along with my own notion, that starting with a real - or merely "real" - object is a great way to make fantasy objects look, and sound in description, more convincing.
Or, as @dduane says, "The more truth you mix with a lie, the stronger it gets..."
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The USS Ward (APD-16) after being hit by a kamikaze on December 7, 1944.
The USS Ward (DD-139) fired the first shots of war for the United States when she spotted a midget submarine near the entrance to Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. At the time her captain was LCDR William W. Outerbridge, who had taken command of the ship two days earlier.
Exactly 3 years later, the Ward now a high-speed transport was operating off the Philippines when she was struck by a Japanese kamikaze amidship. The ship came to a stop and the crew attempted to fight the fires, but to no avail. They abandoned the ship around 11 am. Later that day the USS O'Brien (DD-725) was ordered to sink the Ward with gunfire. O'Brien's commanding officer at the time was William W. Outerbridge.
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escapism-sailor · 4 months
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TW: Mild Blood, Injury.
Humanized Regatta scene with Lillie bleeding and Grampus helping her.
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Old artwork inspired by @/l.j.productions3833's video
Video of Speedpaint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWLiQi6XhxM
That kinda sucks, due old artstyle, but overall fine lol. I love how everyone were always dirty minded about it and got joke, and yet I was always thinking of this moment as… Grampus simply helping Lillie medically, and that she bleeds.
(Also Lillie is engineer\technician and operator working on lightship LV 117 Nantucket , while Grampus was naval warrant officer of the US Navy, and operator of midget submarine A-3)
Also everyone wonders how Lillie and Grampus scene would look like, which is obvious tbh, Lillie is injured and Grampus helps her by pressuring wound, wrapping bandage etc...
But I more wonder how the fuck this scene would make any sense, for them in Human AU???
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Grampus getting blown up for his war crimes or got crucified lmao.
I actually tried to explain with request for suicide, from Grampus to Boreas (human name for Bluenose), because of pressure he got and stuff. But it ended up sounding too dark, depressing, overexplaining, and kind of cringe...
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scotianostra · 1 year
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Aberlady Bay’s midget submarines.
I took a trip out to Aberlady last night to catch the low tide where these relics from World War Two are left decaying as the tide comes in and out.
In the spring of 1946, two midget submarines were towed to Aberlady Bay and tethered on either side of an anchor point made of one old concrete anti-tank block set on top of four others. There, over two days of trials in the first week of May, they were fired at by aircraft including Mosquitoes and Seafires (the naval version of the Spitfire) in an experiment to judge the effectiveness of 20 mm cannon shells against the submarines’ steel hulls.
The story of the Aberlady Bay midget submarines was uncovered brilliantly by a researcher named Alison Boutland in a report for the Nautical Archaeology Society. She was able to identify the submarines as XT-craft, a training variant of the X-craft mini submarine.
X-craft were about 16 metres (52 ft) long and powered by a diesel engine when on the surface and an electric motor when underwater. They had a crew of four: a commander, a pilot, an engineer (known as the engine room artificer, or ERA) and a specialist diver. They were used in September 1943 in a daring raid on the German battleship Tirpitz in a fjord in the far north of Norway – a mission that inspired the 1955 film ‘Above us the Waves’, starring John Mills.
The XT submarines, built by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, were used not just for training X-craft crews, but also to stand in for full-size submarines in training exercises in which they were hunted from air and sea. The XT-craft were simpler than X-craft, since they did not need as much equipment. In particular, they did not have a retractable periscope; the periscope was fixed in a fin-like housing on the top of the submarine. The distinctive eye-shaped attachment point for this periscope housing was clearly identified by Boutland on the two Aberlady Bay wrecks.
Six XT-craft were built, named Extant, Sandra, Helen, Excelsior, Extended and Xantho. When the war in Europe drew to a close, they were no longer needed, and in June 1945 all six were sent to the Naval Construction and Research Establishment in Rosyth. Boutland was not able to figure out which of the six were used for the target trials, although she did conclude that the better-preserved wreck is probably not XT-5, Extended, which, as its name suggests, was modified to be a little longer than the others.
The cannon-fire trials took place on May 1, 1946 and, after the subs were patched up and re-floated, May 6, 1946. The website East Lothian at War, which has the dates as May 2 and May 7, says that the first trial involved armour-piercing shells and the second high-explosive shells, and that the latter proved more effective. Surviving documentation includes annotated photos of the subs showing the damage after the attacks.
Aberlady Conservation and History Society was recently given movie footage of the trials, filmed by a naval officer from the deck of a boat from which the operation was observed, and in 2019 the footage was digitised and posted on YouTube, the footage, although in colour, is not great, I will post it below for you to have a wee look at.
An interesting addition to the story of the submarines comes from Coastkid, a local blogger and Surly fat bike enthusiast, who has evidence that the subs continued to be used as targets for live firing practice by aircraft based at Drem. He recalls working as a greenkeeper at Gullane in the 1980s and finding dozens of spent 0.5 inch shell cartridges as well as 20 mm cartridges, and he was told by a retired tractor driver that aircraft used to line themselves up using a marker pole behind the seventh tee on Gullane No 3 course, and fire when over the rows of anti-tank blocks, near the green of the twelfth hole on No 2 course.
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neutrallyobsessed · 1 year
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OH MY GOD! STAND USER!AU
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i was suposed to put the text underneath the images but i love this arragement?? and i guess it could work better to catch your attention so mucho texto y un poco de lore under the cut lel
「STAND MASTER」: Ten Cents 「STAND NAME」: Recovery Ship
Ability: Ferrokinesis. Can lift double his weight on metal by itself and triple if holding it with his body. He can manipulate it to a distance of 2 meters. As seen in the picture, he can make himself fly if he's over something made of metal
Namesake: Song by P-MODEL. And it's a remix of the Guts theme so that's pretty epic, more upbeat and fun ^^. I think recovery ships are actually for recovering spaceships that comeback to Earth and land on the ocean but damn it, it does sound like a synonym for tugboat right? kinda? anyways i hc TC as a Susumu Hirasawa fan 'cause yeah
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「STAND MASTER」: Big Mac 「STAND NAME」: Supernatural
Ability: Detect bad luck. That's it xd
Namesake: Album by Santana. Pretty simple stuff, it is a supernatural ability after all and has Smooth, a fav song :)
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「STAND MASTER」: O.J. 「STAND NAME」: Molchat Doma
Ability: Creating force-fields. Up to 10 meters of diameter on any solid, so nothing on open air (for now)
Namesake: Belarusian post-punk band. They made Sudno. It means boat. I was running out of ideas ok? and then remembered bout this song and its translation and i was like :000 perfect.
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「STAND MASTER」: Top Hat 「STAND NAME」: Englishman in New York
Ability: What do you mean irl railway tugs don't actually move its wheelhouses like Top Hat? I thought that it was based on something real that happend. Well, he can do that now, raise it up 50 meters una cosa asi.
Namesake: Song by Sting. Top Hat🤝Miles Edgeworth -> californian guys who want to be british lol
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「STAND MASTER」: Warrior 「STAND NAME」: Soldiers of the Wasteland
Ability: He just has the tugboat :P
Namesake: Song by DragonForce. C'mon, it has reference to his name and his job, it's perfect. And I think it fits Warrior, this band also made Through the Fire and Flames
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「STAND MASTER」: Hercules 「STAND NAME」: Big Brother
Ability: He can fuse with his tugboat and become this big, strong and fast af, hovering, can walk on water, robo-man and and it's really cool! uhhh ranges of all these metrics tba xd
Namesake: Song by P-MODEL. Self-explanatory and it was named by Ten Cents for obvious reasons. P-MODEL is Hirasawa's band lel
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「STAND MASTER」: Sunshine 「STAND NAME」: Blondie
Ability: Ya bet a guy called sunshine is going to have a high-temperature stand. Up to 1000 kelvin without damaging himself
Namesake: American new-wave band. He's blond, that's all I got, wanted some variety and not name everything after a song :v
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「STAND MASTER」: Grampus 「STAND NAME」: Midnight Crusin'
Ability: He can dive as far as a midget submarine can go, as long as either the human or sub are on the surface.
Namesake: Album by Kingo Hamada. It's where the Machi no Dolphin song is. City Dolphin. Grampus is a dolphin. Dolphin of Bigg City. It fits so well and so does the song ^^
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「STAND MASTER」: Zorran 「STAND NAME」: Yesterday
Ability: Viewing the past recorded on reflective surfaces. The amount of centimeters determines the amounnt of seconds it has recorded. (a 45cm window has 45 seconds of footage, for example)
Namesake: Song by The Beatles. It is clear that main antagonists in Jojo tend to have time-based abilities and what better Zorran to have an ability like that, referencing that theory of playing Beatles songs backwards gives proof that Paul died~ wish I could use one of those songs, but nothing fitted so whatev, obvious reference :P
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「STAND MASTER」: Zebedee 「STAND NAME」: ???
He probably has something other than the tugboat, but it's too afraid of exploring his abilities due to fear of not being able to control the power and feels that having a mf talking boat is enough for him. Also religious trauma, ofc~
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「STAND MASTER」: Zak 「STAND NAME」: Smoke on the Water
Ability: Creating and controlling dark smoke that comes out of his mouth. Doesn't need to smoke to do so, but he'll do it anyway. He has a problem but won't die from it, so he'll continue
Namesake: Song by Deep Purple. Again a very obvious one :v
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「STAND MASTER」: Zug 「STAND NAME」: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Ability: Morph his body into sharp objects
Namesake: Japanese Alt-Rock band. Is the band that did Parasyte's OP, his ability is a direct reference to that. Let me Hear is the name of the song but like it didn't fit? The band name, on the other hand, goes pretty well. They also made Kaiji's 2nd OP, just another banger to listen to uwu
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「STAND MASTER」: Zip 「STAND NAME」: Sussudio
Ability: Phase through walls and any other horizontal solid wall-like things, so not floors nor ceilings. He can make others (living or inanimated) to go with him if he's touching them. His hands are the expection, they can go through anything at his will.
Namesake: Song by Phil Collins. Did you know that sussudio means absolutely nothing? I think that it fits Zip pretty well, a word that he made up on the spot. And I like the song.
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The Welman submarine was a Second World War one-man British midget submarine developed by the Special Operations Executive. It only saw action once and was not particularly successful.[1]
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jmand · 1 year
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The cost of not being diligent.
Here’s a look at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, America’s Day of Infamy, by the numbers. The United States
The most devastating of figures breaks down just how many people were lost during the Japanese attack. While the Navy suffered the brunt of the assault, there were other military personnel—as well as civilians—lost in the attack.
The following is a breakdown of the casualties. In total, the US Navy suffered a loss of 2,008 sailors on the morning of the attack. Of that staggering figure, 1,177 sailors were killed during the attack on the USS Arizona and 429 were killed aboard the USS Oklahoma. 710 sailors were also wounded in the attack.
Army Air Corps
The airbases scattered around Oahu were vital targets for the attackers to guarantee no counterattack could be launched. With attacks on Hickam, Wheeler, and Bellows Fields, 218 Army Air Force members were killed. Another 364 were wounded during the attack.
Marines
With a smaller presence at Pearl Harbor, the Marines lost 109 of its men and suffered another 69 injuries.
Civilians
While the number is relatively low, the 68 civilians killed and 35 injured were a heavy loss. The target of the attack was a military installation, but Honolulu and the military housing weren’t too far from Pearl Harbor and the airbases to escape damage.
The Battleships
A total of eight battleships were moored at Battleship Row on the morning of December 7, 1941. Of them, two would never rejoin the war: the USS Arizona, which still sits in Pearl Harbor, and the USS Oklahoma, which was lost in transit to a California scrap yard. The Aircraft
The Army Air Corps and the Navy suffered a combined loss of 188 aircraft, and another 159 were damaged.
The Japanese
The instigators of the attack, Japan suffered very few losses.
Over the course of the two-hour attack, Japan lost approximately 45 aircraft, four midget submarines, and about 131 men manning these craft.
https://pearlharbor.org/pearl-harbor-numbers/
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if-you-fan-a-fire · 8 months
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"TINY JAP U-BOAT ABANDONED TO CANUCKS AT KISKA," Vancouver Sun. September 14, 1943. Page 3. ---- Examining the propellers of a miniature Japanese submarine, left in wrecked condition in Kiska harbor, are (left to right) Pte. George E. Verscheure of Chatham, Ont.; Pte. L. J. Bauerlein of Trenton, Ont., and L. Cpl. S. A. Kosior of Fillmore, Sask. They were among Canadians included in units of the task force which re-occupied the island.
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Boats January 14, 2023
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Image from Archy & Mehitabel by George Herriman
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Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night Vashti Bunyan - Where I Like to Stand
DJ speaks over 101 Strings - Skye Boat Song
Rare Breed - Come and Take a Ride in My Boat Heino - Wir lagen vor Madagaskar Go Sailor - The Boy Who Sailed Around the World The Wrecks - Slow Boat to Yuba Tin Tin - Ships On The Starboard
DJ speaks over Uncle Bunt Stephens - Sail Away Lady
Woody Guthrie - The Sinking of the Reuben James The X-Seamen's Institute - Grimsby Town Stan Rogers - The Mary Ellen Carter Brian Eno & John Cale - Empty Frame The Clancy Brothers - Irish Rover
DJ speaks over Zeb - My Own Boat
Deidre Brenner and Sophie Junker - Les Berceaux The Fear Merchants - U-Boat Captain Madness - Night Boat to Cairo Wire - Marooned
DJ speaks over Stevie Wonder - Red Sails in the Sunset
Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir and Ed Trickett - The Sea Wife Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - The Wreck of the "Antoinette" Mekons - Shanty Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - Sloop John B William and Versey Smith - When That Great Ship Went Down Diskonto - Sink the Dept (Not the Ships) Boney M. - Homeland Africa (Ship Ahoi)
DJ speaks over Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Swell Maps - Midget Submarines The Carter Family - I Have No One to Love Me (But the Sailor On the Deep Blue Sea) Gentle Giant - Wreck Jimmy Jukebox - Motor Boat Itsuroh Shimoda - ふたつの舟
DJ speaks over Bear McCreary - Theme from Black Sails
Duran Duran - Night Boat Maddy Prior & June Tabor - The Grey Funnel Line Voivod - The Prow
DK speaks over Carolina Eyck - Les Berceaux (theremin and piano)
Brian Eno - Backwater
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vistashr22 · 2 years
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A vessel with the ability to operate independently underwater is known as a submarine (or sub). It contrasts from a submersible, which has less capabilities for diving underwater. In the past and now, it has also been used to describe small or medium-sized ships like the midget submarine and the wet sub as well as remotely controlled vehicles and robotics. Regardless of size, submarines are referred to as "boats" rather than "ships."
They range from modest autonomous examples, one- or two-person subs that operate for a few hours, to vessels that can remain down for six months. More depths than are practical or safe for human divers can be reached by submarines. There are certain civilian submarines that are used for tourism, exploration, oil and gas platform inspections, and pipeline surveys, despite the fact that most submarines in the world are military vessels. Some of them are also employed illicitly.
The Submarine Voyage ride opened at Disneyland in 1959, but although it ran under water it was not a true submarine, as it ran on tracks and was open to the atmosphere. The first tourist submarine was the Auguste Piccard, which went into service in 1964 at Expo64. By 1997 there were 45 tourist submarines operating around the world. Submarines with a crush depth in the range of 400–500 feet (120–150 m) are operated in several areas worldwide, typically with bottom depths around 100 to 120 feet (30 to 37 m), with a carrying capacity of 50 to 100 passengers.
In a typical operation a surface vessel carries passengers to an offshore operating area and loads them into the submarine. The submarine then visits underwater points of interest such as natural or artificial reef structures. To surface safely without danger of collision the location of the submarine is marked with an air release and movement to the surface is coordinated by an observer in a support craft.
Case in hand:
Your company is planning to launch India’s first ever glass submarine that can go as far 80 feet deep into the ocean and gives its passengers a unique experience of interacting and observing marine life.
Task in hand:
You are the CHRO of India’s first tourism submarine company. You have to come up with the following:
Name of the Company
Mission, Vision and Objectives
List the different job roles offered
Strategies to recruit your employees
Describe the different activities and facilities provided in the tour
A detailed itinerary encompassing the tour.
Deliverables:
A ppt presentation of not more than 9 slides
Submission Details:
Deadline: 8:00 AM Tomorrow (21-09-2022)
Email Subject and File Name: Submission_ECOXX
P.S. The deeper you dig, the better
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mondoradiowmse · 6 days
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04/24/24 Mondo Radio Playlist
Here's the playlist for this week's edition of Mondo Radio, which you can download or stream here. This episode: "Foul White Light", featuring classic post-punk and more. If you enjoy it, don't forget to also follow the show on Facebook and Twitter!
Artist - Song - Album
Wire - Pink Flag - Pink Flag
Wire - Strange - Pink Flag
Gang Of Four - Anthrax - Entertainment!
Gang Of Four - Ether - Entertainment!
Magazine - Cut-Out Shapes - Secondhand Daylight
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Sin In My Heart - Juju
The Cure - A Forest - Staring At The Sea: The Singles
Public Image Ltd. - Careering - Second Edition
Joy Division - The Sound Of Music - Still
Joy Division - Glass - Still
Bobby Ross Avila - Drugs Ain't My Thang - Bobby Ross Avila
Pere Ubu - Real World - The Modern Dance
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance - The Modern Dance
Ama-Dots - Hit Girls - History In 3 Chords: Milwaukee Alternative Bands 1973-1982
Ama-Dots - Samizdot - History In 3 Chords: Milwaukee Alternative Bands 1973-1982
Tense Experts - Tourniquet - Tense Experts
Tense Experts - I Found That Essence Rare - Tense Experts
Mission Of Burma - Laugh The World Away - Vs.
Pylon - K - Chomp More
Talking Heads - Electric Guitar - Fear Of Music
Devo - Shrivel-Up - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
Alternative T.V. - The Force Is Blind - The Force Is Blind (Single)
Alternative T.V. - Lost In Room - The Force Is Blind (Single)
The Desperate Bicycles - Smokescreen - Smokescreen (Single)
Television Personalities - Oxford St, W1 - Yes Darling, But Is It Art? (Early Singles And Rarities)
Swell Maps - H.S. Art - A Trip To Marineville
Swell Maps - Midget Submarines - A Trip To Marineville
The Fall - Rowche Rumble - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong: 39 Golden Greats
The Fall - Totally Wired - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong: 39 Golden Greats
The Psychedelic Furs - Flowers - The Psychedelic Furs
Adam And The Ants - Kick - Dirk Wears White Sox
Adam And The Ants - Animals And Men - Dirk Wears White Sox
Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business - Grlz: Women Ahead Of Their Time
Maximum Joy - Stretch - Grlz: Women Ahead Of Their Time
The Slits - Instant Hit - The John Peel Sessions
The Slits - FM - The John Peel Sessions
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Midget submarine HMS XE8, circa 1945
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