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On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:59:20 -0400, "mmc" wrote:


"Larry" wrote in message
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"Charles Momsen" wrote in news:2a53p5.4mg.17.1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epz6BBZm__0

How utterly great! Thanks!

I didn't notice the retrieval lines that controlled the moment of the
ballast until they hauled it back in. Very ingenious....(c;

If Roger's research vessel had these balls.....he'd be home by
now....(c;

I figured out the retrieval, but how he get the bags out there in the
first
place? Help from shore?


Maybe turn the boat in a circle to make them swing out, and then let
gravity take over?

it only takes a few degrees shift to start the swing .. but you can read
that in the YouTube article (under 'more info')

Alisdair