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_ By JOHN KENDRICK | ane

Ever since the Sea--
Bus went into operation -

-last June 17, the hottest - wave as it passes under each

~- topic on the North Van?”
City waterfront: has
been the damage caus-

ed by the wash from our. ite wave action..© oe -

_ newest form of public ~
transportation.

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‘adjacent to: he Too

Bus arrives.

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The Seven Seas marina --
whose = conventional _break-
‘water was wrecked by the
‘wash two. months ago
erupts into a. (mass.

writhing floats and pitching, - the bureaucratic jumble it

‘rolling pleasure craft. The .
huge old ship-restaurant
bangs against the: pilings,
with waiters. juggling: their. |

trays across. its’ swaying
floor. - ee

Broken lines, - ripped. out
‘cleats, rails pulled away from
_ docks and damaged hulls
‘have been reported from
most neighboring moorages.
--even as far away as the new.
- Burrard Yacht Club’ facilities
at the foot of Bewicke.

‘North, Vancouver designer
“Daryl Mosdell feels he has an
‘answer to the problem.... an
answer he: has had for 15.
‘years but:.hasn’t yet been

able to launch. It is a form of
floating | breakwater which |
-Mosdell, more correctly calls:
a Hydraulic Wave Suppres-
SOP |

The basic unit would be 34
_ feet wide by 100 feet long by
8 ft. 6 inches high -- made of
reinforced conerete divided
“into 24 airtight cells. |

| USHOCK ABSORBERS”

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However, .the, difference .
~ between this.’.and other |
floating concrete break-
waters is that
‘version has no bottom. He
explains that the air in the
cells. underneath keep‘ it' a-
float--somewhat like placing :
an empty glass upside down

n water. Lane Lm rd tnt a iat ?

Mosdell's

.

- the breakwater, the. residual _

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¥. OF wacdestord

- The. air. pockets. act as “That. there is a’ potential | . His * design __was once

‘shock absorbers, ' compres- market © for the  Mosdell . “suggested for use at Sewell’s.

sing.the orbital motion of the . -breakwater :is. indicated .by Marina in Horseshoe Bay but” . @ J Bee f- E e os
lettershe has from Peru and -

‘the Canadian Department of .
cell. By: the time the wave . Japan, : - both: expressing « a

Public Works eventually -
reaches the farther side of “desire to. acquire the wave

decided it would prefer a_
‘suppressor. aS soon as one different design, such as a f
has been. built. eer an frame. - ors ne

energy emerges as a current,

“has. had- “no sag . cu oy _

Patented in 1966. under: the - CeSS' in getting prants to work — .
name. ‘Universal anes

‘on the.

“Not. “only” is. “the eae nn 7 ne | | es oe
frame ineffective but it needs ee | RbGsks eel cee

design and at. Present,

Ep te :

1,°“*The Queen’. Mary.
-weighs 85, 000 tons..and: her

bangs space at the premis- : 2

*- trying to get the: Department

 & Co.,” anchors: weigh: only” ,
St public. works to build. a H12, each Loe.
7 12th’ Street, ‘North - Wind force. and. current’

Vancouver, :
works .on perfecting his
_ design in‘a long tank. -
‘minister, es rs

che tests and © “force determine the amount > fo 5 oa tumg(agmbonnt en ap eed heed oa eat et rect eater |

__ofanchoring: required, ' ‘but
a Mosdeéll claims. his’ break-.

.. water ‘needs: only. 15 tons on.
To demonstrate his claims. each corner. ae

effectiveness... Mosdell’ .
placed. a model of his- wave .
Says suppressor in the ‘tank and
_ then started up the wave
oo « generator.” The waves were

poppe very effectively

He possesses ‘a thick pile He then placed five models — | * . .
of similar letiers from. yvar-| a “of: other forms of floating — a | WU AGI Pte rs Ee earn rant on
ious engineers, politici ns,.. breakwatrr together in: the |: atte AM seey |. omens eee nnn
and bureaucrats, ali. with tank. They proved: to have. | mee ye : 7 |
basically. the samme answer to nowhere near the same wave
Mosdeli’s request to build suppressing ability: combined .
his breakwater: ‘‘Maybe...."’ as thee Mosdell model. a

A letter. + from. Jack. Davis, ~
then: a. ‘federal:
‘suggested that this would’be —
‘done in. 1972. ‘‘Because .of “of.

never got anywhere’”’
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