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Re:The ‘Caspian Sea Monster’ rises from the grave by dnautics on Friday October 23, 2020 @02:40PM (#24872485)
I'm curious why the bay area doesn't have an ekranoplan ferry service. One could imagine longer routes like okl-mtv or okl-rwc or even okl-sjc becoming reasonable. Would it just be a regulatory mess?
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Re:The ‘Caspian Sea Monster’ rises from the grave by ChrisMarshallNY on Friday October 23, 2020 @02:48PM (#24872552)
Probably because it would take a lot of work, money, and time to validate the ferries, and someone would also have to make them; which would entail its own set of regulatory hurdles.

A more reasonable approach might be hovercraft ferries, like they have in Dover, UK. At least the equipment already exists.

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