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Polar Security Cutter
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The link above is about re-naming the program and putting "Security" in there to punctuate the National Security significance of the program that has been losing funding over the years.
“When we talk about icebreaking capability, that doesn’t sell very well to all audiences,” Rear Adm. Melvin Bouboulis, the Coast Guard’s Assistant Commandant for Engineering and Logistics, said during the recent American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) Fleet Maintenance and Modernization Symposium.
“We understand that some folks think it just goes and breaks ice, but we’ve purposely changed the name of that program to Polar Security Cutter because it is really the U.S. presence in the Arctic regions and preserving our national interest and security in those areas.”
By the way, those are 16'-0" diameter, controllable pitch screws. In case you were wondering.
“When we talk about icebreaking capability, that doesn’t sell very well to all audiences,” Rear Adm. Melvin Bouboulis, the Coast Guard’s Assistant Commandant for Engineering and Logistics, said during the recent American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) Fleet Maintenance and Modernization Symposium.
“We understand that some folks think it just goes and breaks ice, but we’ve purposely changed the name of that program to Polar Security Cutter because it is really the U.S. presence in the Arctic regions and preserving our national interest and security in those areas.”
By the way, those are 16'-0" diameter, controllable pitch screws. In case you were wondering.
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"By the way, those are 16'-0" diameter, controllable pitch screws. In case you were wondering."
Okay...I don't know why I'm surprised by that statement: I'm an engineer, a sailor (okay, full disclosure: the largest vessel I've conn'd is a 51' ketch in the Atlantic) and a pilot, fully conversant with variable pitch. But I guess I just never thought of the application of them on a ship; although after reading this, the advantages...it really was obvious!
Thanks for sharing that!!
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Okay...I don't know why I'm surprised by that statement: I'm an engineer, a sailor (okay, full disclosure: the largest vessel I've conn'd is a 51' ketch in the Atlantic) and a pilot, fully conversant with variable pitch. But I guess I just never thought of the application of them on a ship; although after reading this, the advantages...it really was obvious!
Thanks for sharing that!!
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She also has her own dive locker and portable decompression chamber.
She can break ice up to 1.4 meters thick at 3 knots. If she backs up, rams, and gets on top of it, she can break ice that is 2.44 meters (EIGHT FEET) thick.
I am sitting in my dining room right now, looking at this space with an 8'-0" ceiling, and it's hard to imagine a ship breaking ice that thick.
She can break ice up to 1.4 meters thick at 3 knots. If she backs up, rams, and gets on top of it, she can break ice that is 2.44 meters (EIGHT FEET) thick.
I am sitting in my dining room right now, looking at this space with an 8'-0" ceiling, and it's hard to imagine a ship breaking ice that thick.