Masses of the creatures can be sucked through the warship’s water intakes necessary for cooling the vessel’s engines.
Once in the cooling vents, they get mashed into a thick, sticky soup.
This blocks the cooling system, causing the engines to overheat and bringing the warship to a halt.
It then reportedly takes days to clear the pipes.
Thus the urgent need for countermeasures.
The new jellyfish shredder consists of a net, several hundred meters long and wide, which is towed by a tugboat ahead of the carrier.
This funnels whatever falls within towards an array of steel blades.
What comes out the other side is no larger than 3cm wide.
The effect is so brutal researchers report the waters the shredder passes through become murky as the jellyfish — and other marine life — corpses begin to decompose. It takes up to a week to clear.
I wonder why the roundeyes never have this problem with their aircraft carriers?
nutrient levels in our harbors are somewhat lower as we don't dump the city sanitary sewage directly into the sea. therefore lower count on the jellies per cubic meter. we do have them and they are an issue.
ReplyDeletewas on a ship in the Philippian Sea which passed thru a huge raft of sea snakes. I was amazed. to think we actually considered bailing out into that at one time. the hair on the back of my head still rises to this day.
does this beast use catapults on the bow launchers or do they use STVL aircraft? perhaps they just leg it and go.
ReplyDeletewhat a damn fine looking boat that is.
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