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The First Human-Powered Submarine to Cross the Atlantic Will Use a Propulsion System That Precisely Replicates a Dolphins Tail

Source: Siemens
Date: January 2008
Type: White Paper
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Overview: Ciamillo Propulsion (""Mimicking biology"") is a field that brings biologists and engineers together in a collaborative effort to incorporate nature’s wisdom into product design. Biomimetics wanted to unlock nature’s secret to underwater movement and create a human-powered, biomimetically propelled submarine. The challenge was to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Dr. Fish provided him with the physical geometry of a spinner dolphin’s fluke in the form of CAT scan data. It was pages and pages of x, y and z coordinates. He entered the coordinates into Solid Edge. Working from one tip of the tail to the other, he used the x, y and z locations to build slices every one hundred-thousandths of an inch.


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