Wolverine Engineers Participate in Navy Sponsored Submarine Races

Submitted by MadMatt on

A team from the Univ of Michigan joined with teams from other countries and other universtities in the 14th biennial International Submarine Race at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda Maryland.  The goal is to demonstrate a human powered submarine that can navigate an underwater obstacle course as quickly as possible.  These craft typically reach speeds of 5-6 knots, with the record being 7.4 knots.  Also, there is a award for the best innovation in the design.

The competitiion will run from June 25-30.  I hope to post an update of how well our team did.

Go Blue!

http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=101242

http://internationalsubmarineraces.org/

quigley.blue

June 29th, 2017 at 10:09 AM ^

The team with the world record 2-person sub is out of Ecole de technologie superieure in Canada, they have a long running tradition of subs called Omer.

The team with the world record 1-person sub is out of TU Delft in the Netherlands, they also have a long running tradition of subs called WASUB.

The WASUB team was getting it's start when a guy from TU Delft was doing post-grad work in NAME at Michigan.  He worked on our project when we were going through some ups and downs in the early 2000s, and was an invaluable resource.  He went back to the Netherlands, and did the same for them.  They had some really impressive videos of what they were able to accomplish.  They might still be on youtube.

 

Esterhaus

June 29th, 2017 at 8:01 PM ^

That student summer was very humid and we built a few screen doors into our sub just for such days when we were surfaced. No mosquitos inside our boat and the air currents would have been comforting except for all that water pouring in before we submerged involuntarily. Those were the days, fortunately we crew all could swim, which we did, I swear.