While many countries presently seek to reduce carbon emissions from the maritime sector, that sectors has been steadily reducing carbon emissions per ton-mile for more than a century. Efforts at ...

At Sunday’s first Freaky Kon-Tiki raft race in downtown Hampton, there were good raft designs – and not-so-good designs. “Pool noodles” proved not to be buoyant enough, and despite what some might ...

Piled raft foundations combine a shallow raft slab with a group of load-bearing piles to optimise settlement control and bearing capacity beneath heavy or sensitive structures. By sharing load between ...

You may think that a lightweight, packable raft capable of carrying hundreds of pounds through rapids would require advanced skills and facilities to produce. Well, you’d be wrong. “We made them in ...

LONDON, England --After being lost at sea for two-and-a-half months, Steven Callahan has used his ordeal to design a craft that would help sailors survive similar situations. The clam, he says, is a ...

Labor Day will find the Arkansas River again filled with a fleet of homemade rafts stretching from Sand Springs to Tulsa. One crew from Tulsa Tech’s Sand Spring campus is already hard at work getting ...