{"id":210,"date":"2015-05-19T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T07:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/fsiblog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2015-05-19T07:42:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T07:42:08","slug":"tow-tank-carriage-installation-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/2015\/05\/19\/tow-tank-carriage-installation-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Tow Tank Carriage installation underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/05\/carriage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-214\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/05\/carriage-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Gift wrapped - the first part arrives...\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/05\/carriage-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/05\/carriage-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/05\/carriage-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/05\/carriage-1568x1176.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/05\/carriage.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gift wrapped &#8211; the first part arrives&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/05\/carriage2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-216 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/05\/carriage2-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"carriage2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/05\/carriage2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/05\/carriage2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/05\/carriage2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/363\/2015\/05\/carriage2-1568x1176.jpeg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And into the loading bay<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nProgress has gone well since the hand over of the new fluids laboratory building from the main contractors in early March. The passive beach at the east end has been installed along with the active side beaches on the south wall. The components of the main carriage started arriving this morning and should be assembled over the next two weeks.<br \/>\n1st June is scheduled for the start of tank fill with a cautious process with 3000 tonnes of water required. This gives a week for us to prepare demonstrations using the wavemakers for the university open day on the 3rd and 4th July. We are looking forward to showing visitors around as well as making a start on a number of research projects.<br \/>\nWe are delighted to announce that our Towing tank manager, Bertrand Malas has now started work and will be delighted to discuss future use of the facility as progressively more of its capabilities become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress has gone well since the hand over of the new fluids laboratory building from the main contractors in early March. The passive beach at the east end has been installed along with the active side beaches on the south wall. The components of the main carriage started arriving this morning and should be assembled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/2015\/05\/19\/tow-tank-carriage-installation-underway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tow Tank Carriage installation underway<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4066,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}