Comments on: The Boat Designed to Capsize https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-boat-designed-to-capsize/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:05:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: jarvisloop https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-boat-designed-to-capsize/#comment-74649 Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:05:24 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=226#comment-74649 Note to self: Finished.

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By: oscar https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-boat-designed-to-capsize/#comment-39252 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:29:55 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=226#comment-39252 There is a boat that is designed to look like a yacht that is sinking… but this one takes the cake.

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By: Dave Barak https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-boat-designed-to-capsize/#comment-38925 Wed, 21 May 2014 16:15:03 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=226#comment-38925 I work as a civilian employee for the Navy command that has custody of FLIP. I believe it’s still in use now and then. I’ve seen it from a distance of maybe two or three hundred feet, and was pretty excited to see it. I remember reading about it as a kid.

It’s almost certainly viewable on Google Earth or the photo option of Google Maps. If you go to the San Diego, California area and then zero in on the north/south Point Loma peninsula, take a look along the eastern shore of the peninsula. At some point after some up and down scrolling, you should be able to see it.

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By: Sacred Junk https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-boat-designed-to-capsize/#comment-22311 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:52:34 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=226#comment-22311 Flooding the ship seems easy.. but how do they drain the water out?

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By: Merciless https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-boat-designed-to-capsize/#comment-15509 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:21:46 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=226#comment-15509 Damn that’s sweet. Talk about needing to “batten down the hatches.”

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By: james https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-boat-designed-to-capsize/#comment-13858 Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:32:45 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=226#comment-13858 rev.felix said: “That still doesn’t answer the question of why they call it that. Maybe there’s a damn interesting story behind it?”

According to wiki.

The word bulki meant “cargo” in Old Norse. Sometime in the 15th century sailors and builders realized that walls within a vessel would prevent cargo from shifting during passage. In shipbuilding, any vertical panel was called a “head.” So walls installed abeam (side-to-side) in a vessel’s hull were called “bulkheads.” Now, by extension, the term applies to every vertical panel aboard a ship, except for the hull itself.

The term was later applied to other vehicles, such as trams, aircraft or spacecraft, as well as to containers, such as fuel tanks. In some of these cases bulkheads are airtight to prevent air leakage or the spread of a fire.

Other kinds of partition elements within a ship are decks and deckheads.

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By: rev.felix https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-boat-designed-to-capsize/#comment-13856 Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:03:27 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=226#comment-13856 THoM said: “sorry to break it to ya dude, but bulkhead is a really old ass sailor term.”

That still doesn’t answer the question of why they call it that. Maybe there’s a damn interesting story behind it?

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By: Drakvil https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-boat-designed-to-capsize/#comment-11539 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:20:45 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=226#comment-11539 I’ve seen a display on one of these at the Scripps marine institute museum in north San Deigo. I think the institute actually has one, or at least the use of one.

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By: fatal retreat https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-boat-designed-to-capsize/#comment-8481 Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:57:00 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=226#comment-8481 so you think they give tours of this ship?

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By: godsgrandson https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-boat-designed-to-capsize/#comment-2721 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:42:08 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=226#comment-2721 It was a whale that came up the Thames.

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