Deadline for submissions of Evacuation Grant Proposals

Press Release:
The governing body of Evacuation International announced today that the closing date for the submission of proposals is Friday June 6th. Submission proposal requirements have been posted and circulated to all participating groups. A spokesperson for Evacuation International said (off the record) that the granting agency is particularly interested in three projects. The Honolulu rescue mission, by Team Honolulu: The Kingston-upon-Hull mission in the UK taking the evacuees to Iceland by Team Sylvesta Connora and last but not least the Chesterfield Nunavut rescue mission by Team H2O. "These three teams have innovative plans that are extremely promising", she said. For more information contact Dr Patrick Boyle, GI Brunel and Dr Rita Carson. Once proposals have been submitted the committee will be arranging presentation times for each group to present their proposal to the board.

The CTD measures temperature, salinity and density of sea water

The CTD is used to measure water temperature, salinity and density

safe evacuation system from the ship

Dr Hyper sent us this site http://www.ship-technology.com/contractors/survival/rfd-beaufort/

Solar Ship

This design allows for the solar panels to be tilted towards the sun

Solar panels

This is the type of solar panel that Team Sylvesta Connora will be using. Having the ability to tilt them towards the sun would be amazing!

Enclosed lifeboats for Honolulu evacuees

Our team has decided our way to the shore was to use our lifeboats. Since it is potentially storm weather we wanted to have a safe way of getting them to the shore, so we decided upon enclosed lifeboats.

Evacuating Honolulu

As you can see from this photo, the city of Honolulu is at great risk of flooding because one entire side of the city is directly on the coast.
We have also figured out that the time it will take to get from Honolulu to San Francisco is approximately 3.2 days.

A solar ship design by team Sylvestra Connora

Knock Nevis

Team Honolulu plan on using this super tanker for the evacuation of Honolulu
Knock Nevis
The largest super-tanker built ever is named Knock Nevis. It is well known as Seawise Giant, Happy Giant or Jahre Viking, but with changing of ship-owners and its function are coming new names. Now the vessel is operating as a storage tank to the platforms in Qatar. That was dictated, because of its large measurements. The vessel has a deadweight of 565,000 metric tons, a length of 458 meters and a beam of 69 meters. When it is fully loaded it cannot pass through the English channel, which is 32 miles wide, and what about Suez Channel or Panama Channel. That is why, the ship-owner decided to use it as a immobile storage tank offshore in the Mexican Bay.
The story for building this vessel is very interesting. It was designed to be the largest super-tanker built ever, when it was ordered. But just some months after starting of the work for building this vessel the owner, decided that sthis ship is too small and added 87 thousands tones more to its deadweight...

Distance between Honolulu and San Francisco
Distance in miles: 1147
Distance in km: 1846

Chesterfield Nunavut

Team H2O sent this map of Nunavut showing the location of Chesterfield- that is the community that they are planning on evacuating if the flooding gets bad. Chesterfield Inlet is close to Rankin Inlet not far from Southhampton Island.

Team H2O's plan for evacuating Chesterfield

Hello my name is Dr.Lonely and I am the engineer in the evacuation by H2o.
My job is to look after the design and safety of our evacuation plane. As the engineer it is important to get the refugees safely to Southampton Island. We are taking them there because they area is developed, and they also have a harbor so we can dock our ship there safely and easily. As well as living there I chose Chesterfield because of has a sea level of 32 feet above sea level, it is great danger of flooding. It has had three other floods in advance. Our ships capacity is 1300; we will have two separate ships. The boat ride will take just a little over 4 and ½ hours. Our ship’s will also run on water, the ships running on water is important to our team because helping the environment is very important to us because of all of the global worming going on. Having the ship run on water will also be safer and will save us hundred’s of dollars.
Thank you for listening to my concern and idea’s.

Solar Powered and Water Powered Ships

I think these ideas are great. We need to think about reducing global warming and the way to go is to power our ships somehow so we don't add to the problem of global warming. Burning gas and diesel adds to greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. We are trying to rescue people from flooding that happened because of the melting of the arctic and antarctic ice cap. I am delighted that some people are thinking about this.

Solar ships from Team Sylvestra Connora

Team H2O base their ship design on the SS Victoria

Honolulu Hawaii Evacuation Site

This just in from Team Honolulu. The map shows the Honolulu evacuation site
Hi its St. Pepper here with some background information on honolulu from www.wikipedia.org.

"Honolulu, is the capital and most populous census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Although Honolulu refers to the city itself along the south shore of the island, it is commonly designated[citation needed] as the entire island of Oahu. In the Hawaiian language, Honolulu means "sheltered bay" or "place of shelter." It lies along the southeast coast of the island of Oahu and of the City & County of Honolulu. The population was 371,657 at the 2000 census.

Honolulu is the only incorporated city in Hawaii; all other local government entities in Hawaii are administered at the county level. The island of Oahu (approximately 600 square miles/1,600 square kilometres) is under the administrative jurisdiction of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu."

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Area
- CDP 105 sq mi (272.1 km²)
- Land 85.7 sq mi (222.0 km²)
- Water 19.3 sq mi (50.1 km²)
Elevation 0 ft (Sea Level 0 m)
Population (2006)
- CDP 377,357
- Metro

909,863"

Ship choices: from Cruise ship to Tanker

Using multiple resources at wiki answers and how stuff works I have realized that most cruise ships do not travel at a very high speed, usually in or a round 19 knots (just under 40kmph). Also I have realized that cruise ships run at a seemingly high cost, but if costs are compared with commercial cruising (i.e. added price because it's a business) it would be cheaper to spend your ENTIRE retirement on cruise ships than it would to live in most retirement homes. With certain adjustments a cruise ship is our ideal boat. So my question was there…I wanted a cruise ship but that was faster, had less luxury, and was more prepared for storms. I did some research on the largest cruise ships I could find, and came up with "The Freedom Of the Seas" the ship with the biggest gross tonnage. It lays 338.77m long stands 63.7m high (15 decks) and six motors each with 17, 000 hp! Unfortunately this ship comes for a high cost and at $800,000,000 (US) might be running a tad bit over budget. However considering that, think about how the cheapest room I could find on this boat was $659 (CAD) holding 2,147 more people than the titanic!!! I'm sure these costs even out. So to take the basic structure of a cruise ship and to put it with a different body would take up to much room and cost far to much. So I finally dawned on the conclusion of a tanker, with the amazing cost of only one (US) cent per gallon! I started to research this new idea, and realised the gigantic sizes of these monsters! Finally finding the "Knock Nevis" one of the largest which is taller than THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING. In 2005, 2.42 billion metric tons of oil were shipped by tanker.[44] 76.7% of this was crude oil, and the rest consisted of refined petroleum products.[44] This amounted to 34.1% of all seaborne trade for the year.[44] Combining the amount carried with the distance it was carried, oil tankers moved 11,705 billion metric-ton-miles of oil in 2005 (wikipedia info in grey) The knock nevis can hold 564,650 DWT of cargo and is 458.45 m long, It has also been out of service since 2004 is the perfect ship to modified to our new ship since it has been lying around for the last 50 years.

The Plimsoll line

This diagram shows the Plimsoll line

The importance of fluid density to buoyancy

This is what Dr Higginbottom says about fluid density
Diagram of density

Density is the thickness of an object. If the water is very dense the boat shall be higher in the water than in water that is less dense. If the water is dense enough the boat may become unstable and tip over. If water isn’t dense enough a boat may sink. (Salt water is denser than fresh water temperature also affects density.)

from Team H2O

Team Sylvestra Connora

Team H2O

Hi I'm Dr Lonely,
we figured out the average weight that one boat will carry
one boat will carry 58,500 full load
then we figured out that we will need crew too so we need to figure out the weight of them and add it to our first weight total.

Team H2O

Dr. hyper

Hello my name is Dr.Mimi Hyper and I am the Physicist of the evacuation of the group H2o.My job is to do tests to make sure that the ship is safe and runs right. I also look after safety , or the ship would sink. I look after the life boats and make sure that there are enough for everyone and that they are easy to pull out quickly. Our mission is to load the ship with refugees. The ships capacity will be 1300 and we will take the trip for the entire population of Chesterfield. This journey will take four hours at the speed of 20 knots .

Team H2O

Dr. Vera Boredy

Hello, my name is Dr. Boredy and I am the environmental scientist for evacuation by H2o. My job is to make sure our ship doesn't harm the environment in any way. I have decided to make the ship run on water. This way, there is no pollution to the ocean and it is less expensive to run.
In the event of an emergency, we will load the two ships with refugees. The ship's capacity will be 1300 and with two ships we will take the entire population of Chesterfield Inlet to Southampton Island. This journey will take 4 hours and 30 minutes going 20 knots.
I hope you will help out with this project.
thank you
sincerely
Dr. Vera Boredy

Team Sylvestra Connora

Hello I am Dr. Bryc Higinbottm the physicist of our team. I graduated from SmartyPants University, Kentucky and have joined the evacuation project. My hobbies are doing calculus working on how to stop acid rain and hang gliding. hope to the build best evacuation boat in all time with my team. So I hope to be seeing you soon. I will be arriving at Kingston upon the Hull, United Kingdom to start my work in a few days.

Team Sylvestra Connora

My name is Dr. Xavier Turov. I am the engineer on my teem.

I enjoy aeronautics and I often travel to my summer home in Russia to go skydiving and hang gliding. I graduated from Moscow State University where I got my PHD and my engineering degree. I'm interested in studying boats and how they compare to planes. During this project I hope to save the people From Kingston upon hull from my neighboring country, Britain.

Team Honolulu's Sgt. Rocky Pepper

Sgt. Rocky Pepper



Sgt. Rocky Pepper was born in the year 2023 in the small town of Clovelly, England. He grew up going to public school for all of his life. When he graduated from High-school he moved to Buckingham in order to go to the University of Buckingham to get a degree in environmental sciences. Unfortunately when he decided to take a cheap boat ride instead of paying for an expensive plane ticket, he forgot to take in account the rough waters they traveled over. A rock scraped the bottom of the ship creating a leak in the boat. Not knowing that there was a hole in the boat, the crew members thought they were sinking because of having too much weight in the boat. So they decided to throw the heaviest thing they had off the boat, Rocky. Rocky eventually floated to land, but he was never the same again. He developed a large phobia of water. He vowed to himself that he would never touch water again. This proved to be a challenge but he soon figured out ways to get by without water.

When he heard of the war in Madagascar in the year 2042 he jumped at the chance to fight for his country. Unfortunately due to his phobia, he wasn't allowed to fight in the war, he would merely fill out order forms for ammunition. Due to a mistake in the system, he was awarded the sergeant standing, and forced to go to war. Luckily the war ended in that same month, so he was brought back to Buckingham to finish his education. His Final exam was on the effects of Global Warming on coastal cities. He was astounded at the amount of damage a rise in water would result in. After graduating he moved to Honolulu, Hawaii to study its environment and evacuation plans.

Sir Dr Maxwell Edison introduces himself

Sir Dr.Maxwell Edison was born in Nashville Tennessee in 2024, in the basement of the Country Music Hall of Fame‎ as the son of Billy Ray Cyrus. Spending most of his life in the shadow of his sister Miley Ray. He spent most of his days writing music for Clasiffied, Kanye, and 50-Cent but at the ripe age of 8 decided to be a Scientist. He then travelled to become a student at the University of Oslo and graduate with the highest mark achievable, a 105.6572% after he found a flaw in math that made this mark possible.
He then went on to the Humbolt University of Berlin to achieve his masters in every course available. He then persued several PHD’s in Britain, and because of all of his great achievements was nighted by the Queen immediately after becoming a British Citizen.
Unfortuanetly young Sir Dr.Maxwell soon bored with his simple achievements and decided to become a Modern Lyrical Tap Break-dancer with his “Homeskillet” Dr. Elanore Rigby. They then persued a musical/dance career and had a One-hit wonder a song called “Bad mama-jama” ft. Sgt. Rockey Pepper. Recorded in the washroom of his hotel room on Abbey Road.
Sir Maxwell then returned to the Queens House and decided to take part in world issues such as the Evacuation of Al Faw Iraq when Al Faw was 20 Metres under water.

Meet Team Honolulu's Dr Rigby

Dr. Eleanor Rigby is Team Honolulu’s physicist. She was born in Sterling, Scotland in 2024 and is the youngest of four daughters. Her parents sent her to the Texas Military Academy at the age of ten, where she spent eight years until she was eventually expelled for exploding the obstacle course using only and chipmunk and some antifreeze. At the age of 19 she went to study literature in London, England and pursue her dream of becoming a paperback writer. After one year of education she transferred to Oxford University to study physics. After achieving her PHD at the age of 22 (the shortest time ever to achieve it) she went back to Oxford and continued her literature major.
In London she met Sir Dr. Maxwell Edison and they formed a short lived modern, lyrical and tap break-dance group and then a short lived music career with the help of Sergeant Rocky Pepper. Now Dr. Rigby lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with her two dogs Jude and Lucy who both only eat fish and finger pies. Her cottage is in Cornwall with right next to her oldest sister Lizzie’s docking station for Lizzie’s yellow submarine. Her two other sisters Anna and Sadie live together in London where they own a pie shop called Penny Lane Pies, famous for their honey pies.
Dr. Rigby has her PHD in physics and Masters in literature and is now starting to work on a project to evacuate people from Honolulu because of the rising sea level and the possible floods. Her interest in this project was caused by her sister Lizzie telling her that when she traveled in her submarine she docked in Honolulu and was shocked to find the level of water had raised so much. Dr. Eleanor Rigby realized that something had to be done and she met up with her former musical partners and created Team Honolulu, whose mission is to evacuate the people of Honolulu and take them to higher ground.