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Model Construction

Before building the full-sized ship, a precise model is built to study its hydrodynamic behaviour.

The technical model makers at RFH Pierce & Associates in the United Kingdom's Lake District were commissioned to produce an exact model of the ship’s dimensions so that the team could test its movement in water.

11:47 mins

28th January 2008

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