It’s sink or swim for the “Dow Jones,” a concrete canoe built by UCSD’s Society of Civil and Structural Engineers. A team of engineering students loaded the 300-pound concrete canoe into a crate by hand on March 19.
The crate was loaded into a truck headed to the port at Long Beach, from where it will be shipped to Hawaii.
UCSD engineering students will compete against 17 universities from the Pacific Southwest at the annual American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCI) collegiate conference at the University of Hawaii at Manoa on April 2 to 4. The canoe will be judged on its design and its comparative speed to other canoes.
The secret to making this 25-foot concrete canoe float is …Â Details
Faced with this awesome waterfall, most of us would be happy to stand at the side and enjoy the view.
For one man, however, that wasn’t enough. Pedro Olivia risked his life by jumping into his kayak, paddling straight over the edge – and dropping an astonishing 127 feet off the Salto Belo falls in central Brazil.
He fell head first for 2.95 seconds before hitting the churning waters below at 70mph…. Details, Pictures and Video
Hokule’a crew is back home, reflecting on life-changing experience
There’s no telling what sort of assumed truths may suddenly become self-evident when you’re at the helm of a voyaging canoe in the middle of the Pacific.
For 31-year-old Kaimuki resident Angela Fa’anunu, it was this: The world is round.
Fa’anunu was one of a dozen crew members who guided the voyaging canoe’s Hokule’a on its 1,000-mile journey south to Palmyra Atoll last week.
After flying back to Honolulu on Saturday, she and …Â Details
Museum’s double-hull koa canoe is more than 100 years old
The double-hull canoe’s size is not very impressive.
“Medium small,” Junior Coleman said yesterday, not bothering to look up as he went about his work in Bishop Museum’s Hawaiian Hall. “A coastal canoe, maybe interisland on a good day.”
But the gleaming 20-foot, solid koa vessel is more than 100 years old, a treasure of Hawaiian heritage.
It could skim the ocean at about 10 knots, Coleman said, with 180- to 200- square feet of sail, although it probably has never taken the waters…. Details