What is this?

[my_evil_twin]

Cappucino frother for Blue Whales

[tom]

I reckon it's actually upside down in that picture. Looks like the 'hatch' bit is where it's meant to attach to something - part of a ship's superstructure maybe?

Tom

[Crisspy Fiver]

It may have been recovered, the diver could be the FBI or something removing the evidance.

I give up what is it then?

[Finless]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (Dominic @ Oct. 09 2003,13:05)]The problem with that idea is that it appears to be floating..

Maybe it sampled the drugs and is just "high".  

[lizardfish]

<font color='#810541'>Oh well.... I was going to give it a week till I came out with the answer.

We thought it might be some kind of drug smuggling device. But the sign on it says &quot;seismic bouy&quot; ... could be a tail streamer bouy used for studying geophysical movement of the seafloor etc.

Kyrre - you are good!!! :thumb:

Sorry if it's a boring answer. I think it's kind of cool. We still don't know who's it is and what it really does though....

See below.. e.mails sent out during investigation &quot;big orange thing&quot;


&gt;Patrick:
&gt;
&gt;Any clue what this is?


Not much. It looks like something intended to be towed on the surface but
that's all I can say. If it doesn't have any markings on it then chances
are it belongs to the US Navy...

Patrick


&gt;Dr ****,
&gt;
&gt;All it says on bouy is the letter &quot;A&quot; on the front and then &quot;made in France&quot;
&gt;and a French phone number (I think).... but I don't think that is the who
&gt;deployed it/ lost it.
&gt;
&gt;I talked to the marine tech at BBSR and he said it sounded like the
&gt;one you had recently lost a couple of months ago, but I guess that is wrong.
&gt;
&gt;I will find out some more info from the guys at BBSR. Not to worry.
&gt;
&gt;I am interested, Exactly how is it used? ... (if you have the time to tell me!)
&gt;
&gt;Thanks for your help.
&gt;
&gt;Lisa
&gt;


We haven't lost anything around Bermuda. It looks like it might be a
seismic streamer tail buoy and it could be the French since the
French boat Atlante does a lot of work in the Caribbean. I'll forward
this to my spies in France.

The tail buoy is used to keep track of where the end of a many
kilometer long seismic streamer is behind a ship shooting
multichannel seismics.


Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
P.O. Box 1000
61 Route 9W
Palisades, NY 10964

e.mail from France ....

&gt;Hmm.. it definitely looks like a towed buoy with a battery &gt;well, but
&gt;it's definitely
&gt;not one of our Ewing MCS tailbuoys - those have aluminum &gt;frames, orange
&gt;plastic floats, no batteries anymore.

John



Meanwhile my LDS has a giant dildo on stuck on it's mooring... the search continues.

[Mr T.]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (lizardfish @ Oct. 08 2003,02:00)]I have investigated the object and am in the process of returning it to the owners but thought you might like to take a guess as to what it is (or not??). We had fun trying to figure it out.

What is it?

Un-f*ckin-(ocean-going)-sea-worthy. Period.

[DanG]

Yep looks like a towed siesmic streamer bouy to me, the hydrographic office should be able to tell you who was conducting siesmic surveys in that area (with the large tails thew tow they have to publish navigation warnings requesting shipping to keep clear) I will have a look at my list but I don't have any Atlantic ones filed, I am only required to file the pacific ones.
I expect the owner would be very happy to have it back if it still works.
Was it september/october time you where there?

[Norseman]

<font color='#0000FF'>EDIT: Disregard. I didn't notice that the thread had moved on to a new page and answered an old post. Move along, move along, there's nothing to see.

Thrilled, though, that I was right. Guess being a oceanic-towed-device-spotter paid off in the end.

Kyrre

[Paul Oliver]

Well,

If it is French, and designed to stay underwater, but is floating that would be about right.

As i former owner of a French car i know about this kind of issues

Also had a French girlfriend once  There has to be an Up side to every nation, even the french.

Hang on i might be working in France from next month, maybe i should rethink this.

Dive safe

Paul

Quote:- If it were not for the French the British Army would only have half it battle honours. Duke of Wellington C1821 after a few tinnies.