Re: Hawai'i Superferry - Chapter 4
Lika: Have you watched the Tepley videos yet? If not, please do! If you look at the proposed route of Superferry on its website, it would go between Lanai and Molokai to get to Kahului ( basically the same route that the interisland planes take.) Unfortunately, where the whales are is exactly in that area. So Superferry would have to go around the northern part of Moloka'i in order to avoid the whales. Looking at this NOAA map (the pink areas are known whale habitats), that route would take a whole lot longer. So I think it would be 6 of 1, a half dozen of the other: either Superferry cuts its speed down to 12 or 13 knots (or less) in the channel between Molokai and Lanai ---which is a good percentage of the trip--- or it goes a northern route around Moloka'i; either way, the transit time will be longer than what Superferry proposes.
Miulang
P.S. 35 knots is about 42 mph (I think). Whales have this nasty habit of breaching whereever they feel like it. Boats at any speed have issues with stopping immediately. What is the reaction time of a really awake human being? 2 seconds? 5 seconds to realize what they see (after staring at open ocean for 2 hours). If we have problems stopping a 2,000 lb car going 45 mph, how long would it take for a boat weighing many more times than a car going the same speed (and accounting for the inertia that you encounter in water) to come to a complete stop? Somehow, I don't see the Superferry captain throwing the engines into full reverse (I bet he would just run over the whale instead). And where you say "Superferry claims..." isn't that the same kind of nonscience you claim that the antis are using? Why do you take Superferry's word for everything? Why not look at some of the scientific reasoning and then make up your mind? Oh yeah. And whale season is between November and May, so more than half the year, Superferry would be running behind schedule.
Originally posted by LikaNui
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Miulang
P.S. 35 knots is about 42 mph (I think). Whales have this nasty habit of breaching whereever they feel like it. Boats at any speed have issues with stopping immediately. What is the reaction time of a really awake human being? 2 seconds? 5 seconds to realize what they see (after staring at open ocean for 2 hours). If we have problems stopping a 2,000 lb car going 45 mph, how long would it take for a boat weighing many more times than a car going the same speed (and accounting for the inertia that you encounter in water) to come to a complete stop? Somehow, I don't see the Superferry captain throwing the engines into full reverse (I bet he would just run over the whale instead). And where you say "Superferry claims..." isn't that the same kind of nonscience you claim that the antis are using? Why do you take Superferry's word for everything? Why not look at some of the scientific reasoning and then make up your mind? Oh yeah. And whale season is between November and May, so more than half the year, Superferry would be running behind schedule.
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