Trawlers. Part-Two.

Issues.

When we talk about the fishing industry today many people get upset about the lack of stocks and the problems of overfishing. Yet every nation that has a coast or large lakes will have fishing families that rely on the industry in one form or another.

People need to sit back and do some research into the history of the industry, one hundred years ago the traditional fish supper fed the masses of the working classes in Britain and Ireland and perhaps in a few other countries too.

The word sustainable is big amongst those who know very little about livelihoods and the dangers of working the seas and lakes with any kind of boats. Many fisher  people have been drowned on a lake with a line and hook, apart from severe weather at sea.

Trawlers. Part-One.

Reapers of the Seas.

Many people today are against the idea of mass fishing and the work of the Trawler men, they have accused them of 'Raping the Oceans of fish and destroying natural habitat and fish stocks. In this three part series we will look at the machine that was created to use trawler netting, the international laws being implemented on net sizes and fish quotas and then move on to look at the counter debate and their ideas.

The Trawler began life in the Bristol Channel, off the North-Coast of Devon, U.K. These wooden boats used larger nets and weights to keep them being dragged along the sea bottom. Prior to this it was a process of hit and miss. There reason for being created, was the demand in fresh fish.

Today with the invention of the engine and many new designs of hulls, these boats are able to handle most difficult conditions at sea.

Fishermen or Fisherfolk have gone to sea for generations and this applies across the globe. The knowledge of knowing where the shoals of fish are, at certain times of the year has been traditionally handed down from Father to son. Whole communities have suffered severe tragedy over the centuries with losses to the cruel sea's.

Microlights. Part-One.

From Kite to Plane.

It was the ancient Chinese who first developed flight, as far as we know? They invented Kite flying and were able to use some larger kites in battles to scare their primitive enemies. Kites in the shapes of Dragons and giant birds were used, but moving on to the south-American civilizations there is some belife that a simple microlight glider was employed to fly over giant drawings in their desert regions again its all guess work.

The ancient Greeks had legends based on a contraption of a man flying into the sun and loosing his wings, many 19th century copies of these drawings lead to fatal crashes. In the 15th century Leonardo Di-Vinci had several flying concepts and his helicopter would have worked if he had been let build it.

ARV's.

Does the ARV still have a value?

Ever army needs reconnaissance, you need to know where the other side is, how many of them and what equipment is being deployed. In the second world war (1939-45), various types from motorbike and side car to armoured cars were deployed.

But in desert conditions small light tanks, such as the Crusader, German and American half-tracks were deployed. Special forces used there own adaptions based on the Rolls-Royce car chassis and later the American Willy's Jeep.

Today some wheeled and tracked vehicle's have been designed such as the Scorpion tank and variants from it. These vehicles are limited in armour, so if they get hit they are a small price to pay for in the reality of war and conflict.