know any civil engineers?

[dazed1]

Anyone know any civil engineers? Fairly successful ones, that work on large projects? One that, if someone said "I need you to design and oversee the construction of a unique floating oil rig" might not actually be able to do it themselves, but would at least have a good enough idea of where they would start? IE - someone that is past the "

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[neoteny]

I know some people here who are working with a nautical engineering firm to design unique oil rigs:

http://seasteading.org/learn-more/faq

I'd be happy to put you in touch if it's related.

[dazed1]

that would be remarkably close to what I'd eventually like to be doing, since currently the largest project in my sights - one that I've felt drawn to do something about, since first reading about it - is to study, then fix, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

To do so would be an enormous structural engineering project. But instead of tourism/sovereignty goals like the seasteading site, the goal would be research and then...trash...destruction? Removal? No one has any idea how to deal with it. And yes, I do deeply think someone should be doing something about it. Either way, the concept is still the same - a high-seas structure with long-term self-sustainability as a goal. If you think someone there might be able to give me advice on how I'd get from where I am, to that point some time in the future - that's the advice I'm looking for :)