"everybody can use the harbour", but what kind of harbour?
we set out to explore it in detail. we wanted to look at fish and plants, at sand and at the results of our basic chemical tests.
we built two floating platforms from material found on the other side of the river. they were made from plywood and styrofoam. the smaller one became our floating lab.
information for moving on the water:
signal-flag alphabet (a-o).jpg
signal-flag alphabet (p-z).jpg
signal-flag numbers.jpg
two knots: bowline and butterfly
http://www.parfyme.dk/projects/harbor-laboratory/
(picutres open up on a seperate page)
we set out to explore it in detail. we wanted to look at fish and plants, at sand and at the results of our basic chemical tests.
we built two floating platforms from material found on the other side of the river. they were made from plywood and styrofoam. the smaller one became our floating lab.
information for moving on the water:
signal-flag alphabet (a-o).jpg
signal-flag alphabet (p-z).jpg
signal-flag numbers.jpg
two knots: bowline and butterfly
http://www.parfyme.dk/projects/harbor-laboratory/
(picutres open up on a seperate page)
the floating lab
at Parfymes Alle Kan Bruge Havnen (Everybody Can Use The Harbor), copenhagen, dk, 2008
laboratory trip
10.06.2008
at Parfymes Alle Kan Bruge Havnen (Everybody Can Use The Harbor), copenhagen, dk, 2008
laboratory trip
10.06.2008
before we are leaving our small place by the bridge we sit down with the men in the orange vests. they are telling us that swallows are living in the water next to the brick-wall.. we are having some hot, sweet mint tea together.
the floating-water-laboratory is equipped with glas bulbs and flasks, test tubes, pippetes, and tests for nitrat, phoshor and ammonium. we also have a thermometer and a tool to measure the speed of the drift.
there are grey clouds and strong blasts of wind. we are paddleing to holmen. it is a fast journey, on with the wind. we are flowing past glashouses where people are sitting and working. some of them wave to us while they are talking on the phone.
we take the canal to the right. just before the opera. the wind is getting stronger. we try our sail. it works!
floating past a building site, we ask a worker if he has something we can use as an anchor. he looked at us very seriously and dissapeared in the constructions. after a while he came back with a very heavy peace of strange old metal. it is beautiful and its easy to fix a rope to it.
we float a bit further to where a lake begins. stopped to have a small break and take a sample of the water.
this is the lake where many people start building up small houses on or next to the water. big rafts, and bridges to live on. we paddel into the middle of the lake and put out the anchor. the water is very shallow. with googles and an underwater camera we find out how the bottom looks, there ist a huge grassland. here we take underwater sound-recordings. the water itself is very quiet, the waves donīt make any noise. underwater there is a clearly audible frequency. the temperature is 21.5°C
besides this underwater-lawn there was:
simple seegras (zostera marina)
toothed wrack (fucus serratus)
bladder wrack (fucus vesiculosus)
Most of them are from the group of the brown algae.
a man in a canoe tells us that the way we wanted to go back is closed. so we are going back the same way we came. through the current and the storm. the water now, is warmer than the air. the current gets very strong. so we paddeld harder. after 20 meters - we needed quite a long time - three boys in a small rubber boat came by. they pulled us with their motor, the boat and also the raft went zigzag..
after this ride we pulled the raft by walking on the pier. but the next turn we needed to take was impassible. we had to leave the floating lab well tied.
with all our stuff we run to take the ferry but it wanted to go to another direction. so we run further to the bus 66. with the selfmade paddles, the baskets, the laboratory-suitcase and in red waterproof suits we run over the grass in front of the opera, in between the visitors of the opera. they looked from high up behind the glas with beautifull dresses and suits. we ran to the bus.
wow is it warm and dry in this bus. if there was a meal served, noodles and tomatosauce, we would ride on for a long time. the busdriver was very nice: after missing our station we took a small sightseeing tour with him and he dropped us off on the way back at the royal library. after a short walk we where back in the harbour laboratory. very tired and knowing we have to get back the lab-raft. tomorrow.
the floating-water-laboratory is equipped with glas bulbs and flasks, test tubes, pippetes, and tests for nitrat, phoshor and ammonium. we also have a thermometer and a tool to measure the speed of the drift.
there are grey clouds and strong blasts of wind. we are paddleing to holmen. it is a fast journey, on with the wind. we are flowing past glashouses where people are sitting and working. some of them wave to us while they are talking on the phone.
we take the canal to the right. just before the opera. the wind is getting stronger. we try our sail. it works!
floating past a building site, we ask a worker if he has something we can use as an anchor. he looked at us very seriously and dissapeared in the constructions. after a while he came back with a very heavy peace of strange old metal. it is beautiful and its easy to fix a rope to it.
we float a bit further to where a lake begins. stopped to have a small break and take a sample of the water.
this is the lake where many people start building up small houses on or next to the water. big rafts, and bridges to live on. we paddel into the middle of the lake and put out the anchor. the water is very shallow. with googles and an underwater camera we find out how the bottom looks, there ist a huge grassland. here we take underwater sound-recordings. the water itself is very quiet, the waves donīt make any noise. underwater there is a clearly audible frequency. the temperature is 21.5°C
besides this underwater-lawn there was:
simple seegras (zostera marina)
toothed wrack (fucus serratus)
bladder wrack (fucus vesiculosus)
Most of them are from the group of the brown algae.
a man in a canoe tells us that the way we wanted to go back is closed. so we are going back the same way we came. through the current and the storm. the water now, is warmer than the air. the current gets very strong. so we paddeld harder. after 20 meters - we needed quite a long time - three boys in a small rubber boat came by. they pulled us with their motor, the boat and also the raft went zigzag..
after this ride we pulled the raft by walking on the pier. but the next turn we needed to take was impassible. we had to leave the floating lab well tied.
with all our stuff we run to take the ferry but it wanted to go to another direction. so we run further to the bus 66. with the selfmade paddles, the baskets, the laboratory-suitcase and in red waterproof suits we run over the grass in front of the opera, in between the visitors of the opera. they looked from high up behind the glas with beautifull dresses and suits. we ran to the bus.
wow is it warm and dry in this bus. if there was a meal served, noodles and tomatosauce, we would ride on for a long time. the busdriver was very nice: after missing our station we took a small sightseeing tour with him and he dropped us off on the way back at the royal library. after a short walk we where back in the harbour laboratory. very tired and knowing we have to get back the lab-raft. tomorrow.