I believe that every Spinning Stabilized Ship will reflect the personality and style of its owner, and that belief guides me in every project I undertake. My commitment to quality and customer satisfaction is unwavering, and it is this dedication that will anchor my reputation as one of the finest expedition/explorer superyacht builders in the world. I specialize in expedition/explorer super yachts with the level of stability at sea only made possible by our utility patent pending design.
THE EXTERIOR APPEARANCE IS SIMPLY A BEAUTIFUL SPHERICAL GLOBE SLOWLY SPINNING IN THE WATER AT ONE REVOLUTION PER MINUTE AND APPROXIMATELY 3.6 MILES PER HOUR AT THE EQUATOR OF THE VESSEL, WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY CRUISING AT TWELVE KNOTS. THIS RATE OF ROTATION IS WELL TOLERATED BY THE OWNER, GUESTS, CAPTAIN AND CREW. THE BEAUTY OF THIS FEATURE IS, WHEN SPINNING, MY VESSELS MAINTAIN ALMOST A PERFECT LEVEL ATTITUDE REGARDLESS OF ANY OF THE SEA CONDITIONS DESCRIBED IN THE BEAUFORT SCALE.
1. WHAT SHIP WILL ALWAYS SURVIVE SHIP SINKING MONSTER ROGUE WAVES?
THERE IS ONLY ONE ANSWER, A SPINNING STABILIZED SHIP!
2. HOW MANY TANKER AND CONTAINER SHIPS HAVE BEEN SUNK BY ROGUE WAVES?
200 IN THE LAST TWENTY YEARS IS THE ANSWER!
3. Once dismissed as a nautical myth, freakish ocean waves that rise as tall as ten-floor apartment buildings have been accepted as a leading cause of large ship sinkings.
4. Severe weather has sunk more than 200 supertankers and container ships exceeding 200 meters in length during the last two decades. Rogue waves are believed to be the major cause in many such cases.
5. Mariners who survived similar encounters have had remarkable stories to tell. In February 1995 the cruiser liner Queen Elizabeth II met a 29-meter high rogue wave during a hurricane in the North Atlantic that Captain Ronald Warwick described as "a great wall of water… it looked as if we were going into the White Cliffs of Dover."
6. Within the week between February and March 2001 two hardened tourist cruisers – the Bremen and the Caledonian Star – had their bridge windows smashed by 30-meter rogue waves in the South Atlantic, the former ship left drifting without navigation or propulsion for a period of two hours.
7."The incidents occurred less than a thousand kilometers apart from each other," said Wolfgang Rosenthal - Senior Scientist with the GKSS Forschungszentrum GmbH research center, located in Geesthacht in Germany - who has studied rogue waves for years. "All the electronics were switched off on the Bremen as they drifted parallel to the waves, and until they were turned on again the crew were thinking it could have been their last day alive.
8. "The same phenomenon could have sunk many less lucky vessels: two large ships sink every week on average, but the cause is never studied to the same detail as an air crash. It simply gets put down to 'bad weather'."
9. Offshore platforms have also been struck: on 1 January 1995 the Draupner oil rig in the North Sea was hit by a wave whose height was measured by an onboard laser device at 26 meters, with the highest waves around it reaching 12 meters.
10. Objective radar evidence from this and other platforms – radar data from the North Sea's Goma oilfield recorded 466 rogue wave encounters in 12 years - helped convert previously sceptical scientists, whose statistics showed such large deviations from the surrounding sea state should occur only once every 10000 years.
11. The fact that rogue waves actually take place relatively frequently had major safety and economic implications, since current ships and offshore platforms are built to withstand maximum wave heights of only 15 metres.