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Remember that Star Trek movie about saving the whale. Not a bad life eating Krill (like shrimp) all day. The deep, cold water makes it about like Maine Lobster, I bet.
However, this reminds me of the dangers of the sea. Here’s a couple of things and how to mitigate for your protection and not affect their well-being either.
Collision: the book ‘Adrift’ tells of a father alone returning from Europe in his sailboat after having built it with his son and sailing over to Europe and dropping him off. In the middle of the night, he feels a dreadful crash. The boat sinks in about 7 minutes. He has enough time to get on the liferaft, with little else.
Was it a whale coming up from a deep dive, exhausted or was it a partially submerged steel trailer sized container lost at sea.
In case it was the whale, a sound frequency speaker from the hull would have alerted the whale as to the whereabouts of the ship. So discovering that sound would be a good thing for ocean crossing ships, especially at night with no visuals.
Another thing for ships: the mast is a giant lightning attractor, especially if its charge is different from the ground or the water surface. On wood and steel boats this isn’t an issue as the electricity either has enough moisture to cross into the sea or the metal is not sufficiently insulated to cause much of a difference.
Fiberglass, however, with monel openings for bilge, and perhaps for other things as well as the engine and propeller shaft may not be connected to the mast to bleed off the charge to ground. During a storm, any strike on the mast will find ground, but it may have to blast thru the weakest point to get there, leaving a weak point in the hull. Look into it; make sure you don’t get your hull weakened when some simple connection could protect it. Some sacrificial zinc over a monel connection thru the hull at the bottom of the mast, so the mast is connected to the hull of the ship makes some sense, as long as you can release it when you need to step down the mast.
Now another question: how did the massive Blue Whale survive the last ice age about 10,000 years ago. Could it have fed on the krill as usual, and found enough oxygen to breath just above the ice covered earth? Was their enough sunlight to keep the phytoplankton alive? Maybe just at the equator. Perhaps this is when they perfected the deep dive technique. Earthquakes and volcanoes like the one off Tonga today would have warmed the sea and broken thru to get some sunlight in, too.
The other question as to Creation is that thing we call conscience. Where we feel we must do something, then conceive of how to do it, and then build the tools necessary and then build it. That’s pretty cool, and so are those SuperSolid BEC’s, nonlocality, and photosynthesis.
