{"id":9,"date":"2014-12-18T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/marinetechnology\/?p=9"},"modified":"2015-03-24T15:39:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T15:39:14","slug":"newcastle-university-human-powered-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/marinetechnology\/2014\/12\/18\/newcastle-university-human-powered-submarine\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle University – Human Powered Submarine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blog 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are a highly motivated design team of 4th year Marine Technology students at Newcastle University who are building a human powered submarine to race against other universities and companies at the international submarine races. Our team is composed\u00a0of a Marine Engineer, two Naval Architects and a Small Craft Technologist.<\/p>\n

So our challenge is to build and race a one man Human Powered Submarine. The whole submarine is flooded which means that the pilot uses SCUBA gear, therefore me and my team got do an Ocean Diver qualification with the university for FREE, although you don\u2019t have to dive to be a part of the team if that\u2019s not your thing. There is no maximum amount of people that can join the team and it\u2019s open to all the Marine Technology and potentially Science streams.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1 Image from the 2013 ISR (International Submarine Races)<\/p>\n

The race location alternates each year where on odd years it\u2019s in Washington D.C in America and on even years it\u2019s in Southampton in the UK. At the races we\u2019ll be competing against Bath, Warwick, Southampton, Plymouth and other universities from across the globe. The races at Southampton include a slalom and a straight where the Americans (not surprisingly) have a straight line speed test to see who can hit the highest speed.<\/p>\n

There are four different categories that can be entered; one man conventional propulsor (propeller), one man uncongenial propulsor (e.g. using fins to try and propel the submarine like a fish) and then the same differences but with two man submarines.<\/p>\n

The world record is held by a Canadian university with 8.035 knots, and at the American races in 2013 only 5\/21 teams actually beat 5 knots due to accidentally popping up to the surface or having mechanical malfunctions.<\/p>\n

Parts of the submarine that you can get involved in are:<\/p>\n