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Dear Psubbers...
I wish to share with you some of the spirit of our
"Copenhagen school of submarines"- for the sole reason that I would wish
that you could be here and experience the thrill.
Our submarine, the UC-3 Nautilus got her rudder
today. Her engines - both electric - and diesels are being mounted and progress
is as fast as ever.
What's happening here might look like what the
professionals do - but don´t be deceived - we are amateurs to the
fingertips. Submarines are traditionally extremely detailed planed - and must be
because it all depends on delicate balances between volume, weight, power,
hydrodynamics and more. Normally you calculate and draw to the outmost
detail.
We don´t. We design as we go along - keeping our
options ( in every sense ) open to good ideas all the way...
Imagine at football match like that: all kicks are
complex Newtonian physics - ballistic trajectory calculation at a high
level; catching a ball is about as complex as intercepting a ballistic missile
warhead - and it must all be done at very high speed - incredible high speed for
the game to function. The human brain can do that - like it can manually fly a
mach two aircraft and hunt down a bear - but it does NOT do it in a conscient
way - in goes on in the spine - at subconscient level. Here the human brain is a
supercomputer - with extreme multitasking capacity. One moment you play football the next - you are playing the piano...and
nobody is surprised.
In our hangar on a large abandoned shipyard in
Copenhagen we try to build extreme machines using methods found in the arts
rather than in
science...the shape, design and use of our rockets
and submarines, airships and balloons are mostly made by taking a careful look
at a distance - and doing it...making it look right.
Laugh - just laugh - but we have dived 1060 times -
and flown like few on Kraka´s bow planes -
sailed over the Baltic while shouting "keep it coming" to the rolling waves as
Krakas knife edge bow cut through the seas...we have blasted a poor but
courageous TV reporter to great speed on a liquid propelled rocket powered race
boat...and crashed an eight meter gasoline engine powered airship into a
building ...ups... :O)
My point is - that combining you pocket calculator,
some technical courage and a strong desire to explore - can be exceptionally
rewarding regardless of the product that it leads to.
In a few month - April 2007 I guess - we will lit
the boilers on UC-3 and take her our on her first test ride. While tiny compared
to the navies boats - she still has much greater possibilities than Freya and
Kraka. Standing in the sail you are some three or four meters above the waves,
and to go the engine room you must go down a tube - on a long latter - to enter
the fuel bunker section of the boat...while going aft you pass the wet room
where the shower and scuba equipment is found and then you can open the door to
the three meter long engine room - where the diesels resides on both
sides of you . Turning about - you can go fore - to the galley ( just front of
bunkers ) and from there into the mess - and further into the control room. Here
the big flat screen shows the high definition picture form the bow and mast
cameras...or you can take a look for your self via the four 400 mm 80
mm thick acrylic view ports found there...
Our Royal Danish Navy just cut away her
submarine arm...but the professionals operating them - as tactical or technical
officers still exist other places in the navy. There are - to put it short - some very - very skilled men there...they
have recently visited us...and as you can imagine they like the color of UC-3.
We have a sort of cooperation - in that they look into how we do things - both
safetywise - and technically - and we have many times got some good advice.
However - mostly - the pros simply vindicate our designs - that after all is
based on two prototypes and salty experience...
If we succeed we will combine the seagoing features
of navy submarines with the explortion features of research submersibles - and
to a lesser extent - that living onboard features of motor
yachts...
I hope the best - and wish you all the same
!!
Best Regards,
Peter Madsen / UC-3 Nautilus
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