Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Amazing photograph...

["Herve" <caribsub@coqui.net>]

yes that image is a fake, lighting is unreal, and such visibility from that
distance is impossible.
Herve Jaubert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Holt" <mholt@richmond.edu>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Amazing photograph...


> Adam Harvey wrote:
> >
> > The website mentions towing these things away from the drill rigs as a
never
> > ending task.  That got me thinking.  How the hell do they "tow" them
away?
> > That is a huge mass to move, assuming the estimate is correct.  Any
ideas on
> > how they do this?  I think maybe pushing it would be easier, but even
with
> > two or three tugs it still seems just about impossible.  It seems like
one
> > would need an armada of tugs even to build up the slightest amount of
> > momentum.
>
> The photo is obviously a fake.  Images like that do not exist
> in real life, partly because the water is so dark.  Getting the
> light in the right place (above and below the subject) is a
> challenge in a studio, sometimes.
>
> Towing it?  That's probably absurd, without a Star Trek-style
> power plant.
>
> It's just an interesting image.
>
>
>
>
> Mike
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