Sunday, September 23, 2012

What are dracones?

For those who wondered what dracones are, here's some info.

Basically, a dracone barge is "a large flexible watertight tube intended to carry a liquid cargo while towed mostly-submerged behind a ship."

The idea seems to have come from Frank Herbert, one of my favourite authors. It probably came from his novel, The Dragon in the Sea .

Here's how a dracone barge look like:

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi, can we use and attribute your image here:http://teck78.blogspot.com/2012/09/what-are-dracones.html


Actually we can't find the original source of this image and it is also not showing in your blog. Thanks!

Teck said...

Hi, you can find the image on the Internet Archive.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120217000841/http://www.universalrope.com/dracone.html

Unknown said...

Hi Teck, thanks for the reply. Appreciated.