{"id":231,"date":"2015-06-28T20:50:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T20:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/fsiblog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2015-06-28T20:50:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T20:50:33","slug":"open-day-full-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/2015\/06\/28\/open-day-full-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"Open day – full tank!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last month has been a busy one for the new wave and towing tank .\u00a0Approximately 140 water tankers (bowsers in the correct parlance) came and went leaving behind 3000 tonnes of pure Otterbourne water.\u00a0\u00a0 Carriage installation time lapse….<\/a>
\nThe first proper use of the wave makers occurred last week and they can create some large waves which is very exciting. We are hoping to demonstrate these at the next University open days at the end of this week all day \u00a0on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th.\u00a0 We are very keen to promote our ship science degree programmes to prospective students\u00a0 so please feel free to let friends and family know of this opportunity.
\nWe are doing regular tours of the new tank, talks about ship science, tours of our new building (B176)and its new labs as well as the
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\"Panorama<\/a>
Panorama of B185 – a very smart new towing tank frontage<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nFaculty Design Show in B177.\u00a0 The new tank is in B185, all on the new Boldrewood campus co-located with Lloyd’s Register’s Global Technology Centre. Just pop in and have a chat with the staff and students around.
\nAs usual in a small discipline we find it difficult to get the message out about the fascinating careers and excellent salaries to hard pressed schools and their students so any help our friends can do in this respect is much appreciated. The next Open day opportunity\u00a0is in early September.
\nWe are more than happy for members of staff to visit schools to give talks\u00a0or for a\u00a0school group to visit us. Please contact our admissions teams, led by Dr Dominic Taunton, if you would like to discuss these opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last month has been a busy one for the new wave and towing tank .\u00a0Approximately 140 water tankers (bowsers in the correct parlance) came and went leaving behind 3000 tonnes of pure Otterbourne water.\u00a0\u00a0 Carriage installation time lapse…. The first proper use of the wave makers occurred last week and they can create some … Continue reading Open day – full tank!<\/span> →<\/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-231","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\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}