How are the prospects of this sea-forming or marine-engineering look? I honestly don't know what the hell I'm talking about, what makes seabros, seabros. I'm trying to figure out whether or not to go into Ocean and Aquatic Engineering...
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electrical/chemical or dont bother
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It's a pretty good field. Any engineering major will be a lot of work though. Be prepared to spend many a night studying while your friends are out having fun. Also, the first cock is always the worst. After a while you get used to them though. I graduated in 2005 and have been working as an engineer since then and I don't even notice anymore when they go in my mouth. In fact, I'm starting to enjoy it.
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There's a lot of money there, although right now most of it is in oil and natural gas exploration. That's changing with other industries opening up in the sea like mining (on a large scale) and farming (on a small scale) as well as transformer stations that carry power out to oil rigs back from OTEC or turbine installations to shore.
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As futuristic as this looks, it's entirely real; This is what Siemens' subsea power stations look like; they take incoming electricity from subsea power cables and step it down/up as needed for the various installations that use power from it. Like your local transformer station but under thousands of feet of water. If you'd like to design machinery like this, Siemens might be a good company to focus on.
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If you're interested in designing subsea farming enclosures like this one, Kona Blue should be your focus. It's a relatively new industry so there's room for considerable growth, meaning it's reasonable to expect positions to open up over time even in the current economy.
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If you were to study nuclear engineering with a focus on compact naval reactors there would be a place for you at FlexBlue, designing/inspecting/maintaining the naval reactors they plan to use to supply power to coastal cities from 300 feet underwater.
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If you're interested in working for the military, Darpa has renewed focus on submarine technology as of late, with their most ambitious program involving the construction of a rocket powered supercavitating submarine called the "Underwater Express", capable of speeds up to 115mph.
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If you're interested in deep submergence, such as piloting or riding vessels like the Alvin down as far as 4 miles, you'll want to focus on qualifying with the NOAA or the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute as either a submersible pilot or a marine biologist/geologist.
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If you'd like to live and work aboard Aquarius, your options are either to become a marine biologist specializing in coral reef ecosystems or a habitat technician, an incredibly specialized occupation which understandably doesn't have very many openings. Most recently the Aquarius got a new habtech when the last one, Dewey Smith, died in an accident while out on EVA.
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If you want to design environments like this, the position you want is "Marine architect". Most of their work involves the design of aquariums, which understandably employ the same materials and principles as 1atm habitats. The only firms actually building large 1atm habitats right now are US Submarines and FlexBlue.
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If you're interested in designing compact deep submergence submersibles and exoskeletons, you should focus on Nuytco, leader in the field. Their primary project right now is completing the Exosuit, pictured.
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Obvious samefagging
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If you have the balls for it, you might consider saturation diving as a way to pay for your marine engineering education. Many employers will pay for your training, and you can make a fair chunk of change in just a few years. It is however a very dangerous line of work and accordingly the divers who stay with the job are of a certain type. Not daredevils in the reckless sense, but undisturbed by hanging in a frigid black abyss two thousand feet down for hours at a time, occasionally encountering benthic organisms and enduring multi-day decompression after each gig.
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If you don't mind never actually being underwater, there's a lot of money in ROVs. Piloting them, designing them, everything about them. ROVs are extensively used in deep water oil drilling, along with all manner of other robots and semi automated seafloor installations, pic related.
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If you're interested in the design of nuclear submarines, they're becoming increasingly sophisticated, with features like docking collars for smaller craft and advanced deployable AUVs seen before only in science fiction. These are among the most sophisticated machines built today and are basically the starships of the sea.
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Marine engineering problems that need solving:
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>>4068490 "this thread has received 1 of 4 requests needed to trigger archival."
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Are your hamsters dead yet?
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>>4068097 It's no seaquest DSV
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>>4068507 >>4068490 Go back to /b/ idiot.
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>>4067867 >marine-engineering Are there homosexuals in the ocean? wtf?
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>>4068507 "this thread has received 2 of 4 requests needed to trigger archival."
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>>4068518 Deal with it nerd.
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>>4068515 It's damn close. A 21st century nuclear sub is pretty high up there on the list of our most sophisticated, large and powerful machines that we're capable of building. It's a pressure hull that can touch bottom anywhere on the conshelf and go deeper than that beyond it, yet is large enough to house 134 men and provide for all of their day to day needs. It's powered by a compact nuclear reactor, which drives a shrouded pumpjet propulsor, basically an underwater jet engine, with a classified speed of somewhere between 30 and 60 miles per hour, and enough nuclear firepower to wipe out all of the biggest cities on Earth by itself. There is no greater military tool right now than the nuclear submarine, and no greater military submarine than the Virginia class.
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I mean, look at this. This is just the control room.
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This is what it takes to build one.
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>>4068537 but does it have a super intelligent dolphin?
I think not. wake me when it's the future.
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>>4068552 And it's not even the largest. That honor goes to the Russian 'Typhoon' class, which actually had three separate pressure hulls in a single armored skin. Two large diameter hulls for the crew side by side and a third, thin hull for critical hardware isolated from them in the middle/top.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_class_submarine It was also one of their quietest. While the onboard systems would be obsolete by modern standards, the thing was still a beast.
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lol
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>>4068565 >herp >derp That's all I took away from your post.
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>global warming >polar ice caps all melt >sea levels rise >incentive for undersea colonization >underwater cities
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>>4068576 That's precisely the plot of this book trilogy, soon to be made into a film trilogy.
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>>4068605 Yes? Are you perhaps more a fan of Peter Watt's Starfish? Somehow I don't see Disney being as eager to option that.
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>>4068611 Now that I would go watch.
