What is it??
Aug 13, 2012 19:26:06 #
I am sure someone will know but I sure didn't. I drove all backroads on a trip last week and this is one of the things I found. I will do a series on the rest, pretty interesting. I don't think I will drive the main roads again.
Notice the rudder and prop
Inside
I really want this thing.
Aug 13, 2012 19:27:51 #
Aug 13, 2012 19:58:23 #
Agree with diving bell. Kinda looks like something I rode in many years ago at a park.
Aug 13, 2012 20:13:08 #
Aug 13, 2012 20:20:34 #
My guess would be a powered bathysphere, but that is only a guess. They were usually lit and powered by an electric cable from the mother-ship.
Aug 13, 2012 20:58:00 #
Nope.
Boatingman wrote:
My guess would be a powered bathysphere, but that is only a guess. They were usually lit and powered by an electric cable from the mother-ship.
Aug 13, 2012 21:13:13 #
One of the things your get into when your boat is sinking.
Deep in the ocean.
Or a ship to ship transfer boat.
Deep in the ocean.
Or a ship to ship transfer boat.
Aug 13, 2012 21:21:50 #
Hi, Pale. Yeah, it does have that lifeboat orange going for it. I work on the water, so if that IS the answer, I'm really going to be embarrassed. Of course, modern lifeboats look nothing like that.
Aug 13, 2012 22:45:16 #
It is a Brucher Survival Capsule. http://www.britishpathe.com/video/safety-capsule-aka-lifesaving-device-installed-on
Pretty neat. For oil rigs and platforms. Over $100,000 new in teh 80's.
Pretty neat. For oil rigs and platforms. Over $100,000 new in teh 80's.
Aug 13, 2012 23:31:14 #
Aug 14, 2012 01:15:26 #
it's an emergency lifeboat/capsule. submersibles don't carry that many people, they're full of instrumentation, and they don't have seat belts!
Aug 14, 2012 05:58:38 #
jtipps wrote:
I am sure someone will know but I sure didn't. I drove all backroads on a trip last week and this is one of the things I found. I will do a series on the rest, pretty interesting. I don't think I will drive the main roads again.
Looks like a survival capsule . they have them on oil rigs out at sea. In case of a ctastrophe all hands get into it & it is jetisoned into the water from a great height. Hence the seat belts & covered in to survive through fire etc. Big safety requirement on all oil/gas platforms. Life boats equivalent.
Aug 14, 2012 06:47:12 #
Well the answer was there before I got here, that's ok, it's still pretty cool find. Interesting.
Aug 14, 2012 08:34:57 #
Hi guys, i knew what this was, my ex husband worked on the rigs and they flew the wives out to see where they worked... and when i was out there i got to step into one of these, although much more modern,and it was as suggested a safety evacuation capsule or what ever shaped exactly like this one where the guys climbed in a circular space ship shape life boat thing...it was suspended in the air above the ocean on a metal arm and once it was occupied to the fullest you would drop it into the ocean, it was completely enclosed and water tight, the circular seating in your pic gave it away for me. The guys on the rigs certainly were impressed with them. Yours is such an old model,good find, very interesting.
Suzanne153
Suzanne153
Aug 14, 2012 09:53:01 #
Great shots!!
You folks were right, it was(is) a safety capsule.
How did "Area-51" allow you to take this picture of 'my' space capsule?
It's no longer of use for my space travel since the navigational gear has been taken!
I'm just stuck here on a planet that's got so much to drink that it's tilted over a bit! :roll:
You folks were right, it was(is) a safety capsule.
How did "Area-51" allow you to take this picture of 'my' space capsule?
It's no longer of use for my space travel since the navigational gear has been taken!
I'm just stuck here on a planet that's got so much to drink that it's tilted over a bit! :roll:
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