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Hydrodynamics of Propeller Accidents Part 2 – Right Whale Collision Research

Following up on Hydrodynamics of Propeller Accidents Part 1, we now share some research work that looks very applicable to future hydrodynamic studies of human body / swimmer / man overboard interactions with boats, drives, propellers, and propeller guards. We recently came across some hydrodynamic studies of whale interactions with ships, ship hulls, and ship […]

Hydrodynamics of Propeller Accidents – Part 1 the History

Little research has been done surrounding the hydromechanics of people / swimmers/ man overboard encounters with propellers or propeller guards. We will now explore this field, some of the opportunities it presents, and some recent research that looks very applicable to studying the hydrodynamics of human / boat / propeller / propeller guard interactions. We […]

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in Modeling & Testing of Propeller Guards

We have been promoting the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in the development of prop guards for a long time. It’s been on our Help Us page for several years, we mentioned CFD in our January 2009 post on a Propeller Guard With Reduced Drag, and just a few days ago we briefly discussed […]

The Emperor Has No Boat – SUNY Propeller Guard Testing

CED Investigative Technologies, Inc. has been testing the human factors of propeller guards at State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo at their Center for Research in Education and Special Environments (CRESE) facility. Some may recall, this is the same facility used by Mercury Marine and Outboard Marine Corporation to test a propeller guard back […]

A New Way Of Mitigating Losses Resulting From Hazards or Disasters

Instead of Trying to Stop the Disaster, Try to Make it Worse On May 19, 2011 I was reading a May 18, 2011 Wall Street Journal Article titled, Fresh Tales of Chaos Emerge From Early Hours of the Crisis. The article details the rapidly evolving nature of the nuclear reactor problems at Fukashima Nuclear Power […]

Propeller Safety Warnings vs New Graphic Cigarette Warnings

We noticed several reports in the news this morning about the new graphic cigarette warnings being released today. A report in the Washington post says their are nine new images and they will be required on all cigarette packs as part of ” a new powerful warning strategy.” The photos are very graphic and portray […]

Propeller Guard Paradox Defense Defeated by Uncle Milton’s Ant Farm

From the mid 1990’s up to December 2002, the boating industry relied upon Federal Preemption as their primary defense in propeller accident cases. The industry said that since the U.S. Coast Guard did not require propeller guards on all boats, then individual states could not require them to have been on the boat involved in […]

Propeller Safety Thoughts Prior to June 2011

Propeller Safety & Propeller Injuries – Our Thoughts Prior to June 2011 We captured our thoughts about propeller safety on a page prior to moving to our new format in June 2011. We moved the page capturing our earlier thoughts to this post. Our more recent thoughts are in the blog. These are just thoughts […]