#seabreacher

Objectum attraction to seabreachers

Jet Shark !

that’s an orca that can move at high speed, submerge, and leap ten feet out of the ocean.

Also, it’s a boat.

personally, I think their shape is more suited to a dolphin or a shark. You know, like these

or maybe you’d prefer something flashier

seats two btw

I show you all this to tell you that I really really want to have a couple of these with people go basically live with pods of orcas or dolphins. These models can only go a little under water, because their engines require air intake that can only be interrupted for like a minute -- but that only makes them MORE like cetaceans! So they only need to be modified a little.

Different power source for one, I’d trade a little speed for something less intense and longer lasting than jet fuel or gasoline, which, since these motors are are made from recycled jet engines, it probably takes one or the other. Changing that might negate your air intake right there.

If not, I propose air compressors that store the air needed for the engine (and the people) during dives. Orcas only dive for 5 to 15 minutes at a time, bottlenose have similar times, both usually taking more like ten minutes for a deep dive. So it’s not real intense submerge times we’re talking here.

Also, most of the time, dolphins actually hang out at or near the surface, and breathe several times a minute. So if you had to hang out at the top for a while to compress air it would be fine and normal, especially right after a fifteen minute dive. Similarly, orcas at leisure tend to do three or four deep breaths at 20 second intervals and then dive a bit, so a couple minutes up and then eightish minutes down, but will stay near the surface and breathe more often when traveling at speed.

Oh yeah, and this cetacean mech will definitely need to be outfitted with one of those Dolphin Translator rigs Denise Herzing and her team invented.

No, they haven’t translated a literal dolphin language (which, we’re pretty sure they have something like language). The rig is a sonar send and receive rig, hooked to, like, a waterproof keyboard thingie, and they use it to invent a new language together with a bottlenose pod in a sound range convenient for the dolphins.

Turns out having zero words in common and asking “what do you call a cat” is a much harder and more prone to inaccuracy than just pointing at a cat and saying “floofer” and the other person goes “flooper” and you go like sure, flooper means cat now and you repeat it to each other a few times while pointing at a cat. and then try to agree on what to call a dog. The problem with using this technique utilizing existing language is you wind up pointing at a stop sign and get told “red” or “stop” or “octagon” or “sign” or even “law” or some shit and it propagates inaccuracy down the thread of mutual understanding.

ANYway, to facilitate this cooperative language creation process they invented a device to hear and pronounce all the sounds dolphins can make, and they created some amount of language together with a wild pod of dolphins they’ve spent 25 years Jane Goodalling. Sadly I seem to recall the pod got merked by a fishing trawler or some other human activity while they were still working on it.

SO ANYWAY. My dream is, you get these boats (which can already submerge briefly) to match the dive specifications of dolphin and orcas (which again, is no more than 15 minutes underwater) then equip them with the sonar language rigs (might as well use it for navigation like they do too) and have some people go get all Gorillas in the Mist with some cetaceans. Oh and before you say the dolphin ones are too big, common bottle nose dolphins can be 14 feet long (4 meters) and weigh almost 1,500 pounds (680 kg) which is actually almost exactly the size of the seabreacher boats up there 

But all this is still a big step or two from my real dream of having, like, a subaquatic nomad squad where some of the members are actually orcas, or other cetaceans. Ideally a mixed group, so you could have like, a couple of sperm whale RV subs too, for kitchens and showers and things. They are shaped like this

They’re about can be 11 feet in height, which means you could probably design it to allow comfortable standing inside. Sperm whales can be 60 to 70 feet long, RV campers are between 20 and 45 feet long... Orcas are 15 to 25 feet long... those boats up there at the top of the post already exist....you beginning to see the scene I’m setting?

Of course, a sperm whale is one of the deepest divers, so your RV sub would have to be able to do 90 minutes without surfacing and handle depths of 2,000 meters, but I think 65 feet long is enough room for the necessary engineering with enough space left to fit basically a 40 foot RV camper in there too.

This week, we’re looking at manuscript doodle highlights.

This is a fish-shaped boat from LJS 186, a collection of scientific treatises with an emphasis on mathematical demonstration. Let’s just say whoever drew this doodle was on to something (https://seabreacher.com/seabreacher-x/).

CW: images of submarines (potential megalophobia/thalassophobia trigger), shotgun (non-violent)

Seabreacher

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