Capsizing Ship Model Experiments - Video
 

http://nrife.fra.affrc.go.jp/index_e.html
National Research Institute of Fisheries Engineering
http://nrife.fra.affrc.go.jp/new_img...itle_e_top.jpg

Capsizing Model Experiments
WAVE TANK VIDEOS FROM JAPAN
http://nrife.fra.affrc.go.jp/plant/kaiyou/capsizing-e.html

From that same site, look in the background. Do you see a yellow WIG? I think the red thing is just a raft (for people to retrieve models), not a hovercraft.

http://nrife.fra.affrc.go.jp/topics/200704...s_20070426.html
http://nrife.fra.affrc.go.jp/topics/...20070426_5.JPG

http://nrife.fra.affrc.go.jp/topics/200704...s_20070427.html
http://nrife.fra.affrc.go.jp/topics/...20070427_8.JPG

EDIT
In English................ :)

http://nrife.fra.affrc.go.jp/plant/plant_e.html
http://nrife.fra.affrc.go.jp/plant/image/shisetsu.jpg

http://nrife.fra.affrc.go.jp/plant/kaiyou/kaiyou_e.html
http://nrife.fra.affrc.go.jp/plant/k.../facility1.gif

I think there is one of these in Oregon to see how big wave from an offshore eartquake will hit the west coast.

Towing Tank:
http://nrife.fra.affrc.go.jp/plant/gyosen/gyosen_e.html
http://nrife.fra.affrc.go.jp/plant/g.../facility3.jpg

parametric rolling keeps me awake at night..

Get a catamaran. :D

http://www.rolls-royce.com/marine/products/manoeuvring/stabilisation_systems/parametric.jsp
http://www.rolls-royce.com/marine/im...parametric.gif



Have you seen this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVoMtPFtEg0

Wow. Big props to the skills of that chopper pilot in that last video. (pun not intended).

The helicopter was doing better than the ship, that's for sure.