Team Honolulu's evacuation cruise route

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