Dome Project

Scuba Scott · Post by **Scuba Scott** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 10:14 pm

Interested in learning what this structure is. Anyone know?

ktb · Post by **ktb** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 10:50 pm

I'd love to know as well. We saw it in the port Saturday.

kdupreez · Post by **kdupreez** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 11:10 pm

Sea based X-Band radar for our National Missile Defense systems..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-based_X-band_Radar

I believe they are dry-docked for repairs and maintenance.. They were tugged into the docks quite a while ago.. kinda popped up there like magic one day

Blaiz · Post by **Blaiz** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 11:10 pm

radar?

(kdupreez beat me to it)

kdupreez · Post by **kdupreez** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 11:15 pm

Blaiz wrote:radar?

(kdupreez beat me to it)

I had no idea what they were either, saw them and asked at Cove2, some clever law-enforcement types knew what it was.

Penopolypants · Post by **Penopolypants** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 12:32 am

The West Seattle Blog had a pretty good story line going on it as it was coming in:

http://westseattleblog.com/2011/05/on-i ... band-radar

http://westseattleblog.com/2011/05/foll ... n-daylight

http://westseattleblog.com/2011/05/upda ... -radar-sbx

The sci-fi aficionado in me has been quite curious about it!

Burntchef · Post by **Burntchef** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 1:15 am

time for the tin foil hats.

spatman · Post by **spatman** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 6:59 am

Burntchef wrote:time for the tin foil hats.

you mean it's not always?

Blaiz · Post by **Blaiz** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:59 pm

theres a very similar dome everyone calls the golf ball here in oak harbor

i suspect its main function is to cause my diving buddies to move away

i strongly suggest you avoid the one in seattle

Tangfish · Post by **Tangfish** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 1:43 pm

I call it the brontosaurus egg.

renoun · Post by **renoun** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 5:40 pm

They are multiplying. A second rig is arriving tonight.

West Seattle Blog Reports

It’s dominated the Harbor Island view for two months, and while it’s not scheduled to leave Vigor (formerly Todd) Shipyard for another month or so, you will see the SBX (military Sea-Based X-Band missile-detecting radar, aka “that thing that looks like a giant golf/ping-pong ball”) move around a bit this week.

That’s because, according to a marine-industry advisory obtained by WSB, a floating offshore-oil-drilling platform is coming into the shipyard, so SBX must move temporarily while the drilling rig is maneuvered into place. That rig is a story unto itself:

Tangfish · Post by **Tangfish** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:18 pm

It's on the move!

Maverick · Post by **Maverick** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:45 pm

its a radar dome brought in for repairs. Thats what Howie from the Aluminator charter says anyway.

CaptnJack · Post by **CaptnJack** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:36 pm

renoun wrote:They are multiplying. A second rig is arriving tonight.

the "2nd rig" is just a boring looking oil drilling platform. they were shuffling them around this afternoon.

Grateful Diver · Post by **Grateful Diver** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 6:52 am

They'd moved it out to a mooring yesterday ... wish I'd had a camera with me last evening at Cove 2 ... would've made a nice picture with Seattle in the background.

That thing's HUGE when you get a closer look at it ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

fishb0y · Post by **fishb0y** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 12:05 pm

When I lived on Ford Island (Pearl Harbor, HI) this would moor right next to my house. From what I remember there is only one. My run in was when the "golf ball" was unloading off the Blue Marlin with the PH Harbor Patrol chasing us away from a divesite because we were too close (at least a couple of miles away).

Penopolypants · Post by **Penopolypants** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:57 pm

Alas, it is on the move again, this time back out to sea:

http://westseattleblog.com/2011/08/say- ... s-tomorrow

spatman · Post by **spatman** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 2:28 pm

And again, this time near Korea:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/01/world/asi ... ?hpt=hp_t1

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