The US Navy’s new upgrade to the Manouvering and Seakeeping (MASK) basin was officially opened in a ribbon cutting ceremony on 19th December by Dr. John Holdren, assistant to the president for Science and Technology.
The upgrade to the 360-foot long and 240 foot-wide (110x73m) facility consists of 216 flap paddles designed by Edinburgh Designs Ltd, and can reproduce a wide variety of scale model sea conditions with continuous regular waves up to 1 metre in height possible.
From left: Dr Thomas Davey, operations manager; Stuart Brown, FloWaveTT CEO; Robert Uri, client representative; Professor Stephen Salter; Matthew Rea, Edinburgh Designs Ltd director.
Construction has begun on the upgrade to wave generating equipment at the US Navy’s Manouvering And Sea Keeping (MASK) basin. The basin, part of the Navy’s Carderock Division, is one of the largest mavouvering basins in the world and, once complete in late 2013, will have 216 flap wave generators capable of producing a total of over one megawatt of wave energy.
BBC one program “The One Show” have produced a piece on the Plymouth COAST laboratory. The clip features the labs Edinburgh Designs wavemaker from 1 minute 10 s.
See the video here on the Edinburgh Designs YouTube page.
On Tuesday 30 October 2012 His Royal Highness Prince Phillip the Duke of Edinburgh opened Plymouth University’s new Marine Building. The Marine Building is a state of the art marine research facility with 4 separate wave and current tanks designed and installed by Edinburgh Designs Ltd.
Marin opens the world’s first wave basin capable of operating in depressurised atmospheric conditions. The facility, which first opened as a depressurised towing tank in the 1960s, has recently had a €17m upgrade to provide it with wavemaking capabilities provided by Edinburgh Designs Ltd.