Norway to build world's first floating underwater traffic tunnels

[Siberian_Khatru]

Norway to build world's first floating underwater traffic tunnels | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Norway has hatched ambitious plans to install the world’s first floating underwater tunnels to help travelers easily cross the nation’s many fjords. At present, the only way to travel across the bodies of water involves taking a series of ferries – an inconvenient and time-consuming process. The “submerged floating bridges” would consist of large tubes suspended under 100 feet of water, and each one will be wide enough for two lanes of traffic.

Nifty.

 

[Yahweh_is_gracious]

Cool. If it can be done, it will be quite a feat of engineering. The stresses on materials will be enormous given all the factors of hydrostatic pressures, hydrodynamic pressures, temperature and pressure gradients, vibration, and a whole slew of others. Should prove to be quite a boon for the engineers who can sort it out and also for the contractors that actually build the project.

 

[JonahLynx]

Yeah no one is going to believe me when I hang up the phone now.

"You're breaking up... I'm going through a tunnel... and I'm underwater."