söndag 14 oktober 2007

More Construction

Here are some progress pictures of the dolphin coming
together; I have it freely hanging in the air on broomsticks!


Assembled...
Starting to smooth it out.

Pretty smooth!

turned it upside down and started with the flippers.

Getting there...

And then BAM! A white sausage with flippers.

torsdag 11 oktober 2007

Johan W Svensson's Story

The other day I had lunch with Johan W Svensson the diver but I didn’t bother to tell you until now. Johan has a lot of diving experience and it was a real interesting lunch. I first we talked some about the suit and the project in general and he had some interesting suggestions.

The suit will be quite deformed of the pressure in the water and really hard to swim with because of the weight he said. Also I have to think of a good way of balancing the suit so it doesn’t roll over, float or sink and he lent me a book about diving with some diagrams on this topic.


Almost looks lik he had the diving mask on during the lunch dont you think?

All of that was cool BÚT YOU WONT BELIVE WHAT HE TOLD ME NEXT!
JOHAN W SVENSSON HAS BEEN BITTEN BY A BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN!


I took some notes on his story and now ill try to put together a story around them. Also keep in mind that I somewhat dramatized parts of the it, couldn’t help it;

It was on the border between Egypt and Israel and this time Johan was on a particularly hard diving mission. He had to swim in an enclosure where they kept dolphins, sharks and Swedish celebrity party planner Michael Bindefeldt. Well actually Bindefeldt was in the diving team and not “kept”, still a fun fact. The dolphins don’t like sharks and sometimes killed them by thrusting fast into their sides. So once in a while the sharks where replaced by new ones. After a while thrill seeking Johan decided to dive outside the enclosure, that’s where it happened.

He saw it in a distance but the dolphin closed in fast. He looked intelligently into Johan’s eyes. Johan looked back and it felt like they bonded over the species barrier. We are somewhat all the same Johan thought. Then the bastard bit him!

As blood floated out into the water, Johan tried to scream his pain out. But the diving mask and the water turned the scream into a blurry foreign sound. The blood looked green in the water, like green mist. I have to leave this ghoulish place he thought, swimming to the surface.


Later he was told that it once was a tame dolphin that escaped the enclosure now enjoying the freedom of the wild. That the closed hand Johan stretched towards the dolphin to greet was the sign for fish the trainers once used.

Another time Johan swam with Orca whales in Norway. That’s cool as well.