The Aquatotter is Over!

School Year is Long Over and I finally have time to post things, from all of my projects. The main focus of this post is the Aquatotter. Long Story short. We floated!!!! Despite the fact, we had no deck to speak of and broom as oars, we did it. I made a short movie describing the process, and I'll add the pictures of us underneath it.

The Construction
We got off to a rocky start. Our original material for construction was bamboo. I had visions of 1 1/2" diameter bamboo rods tied together and holding the bottles and keeping us afloat. Unfortunately, our bamboo suppply was less than adequate, so we had to supply the other team with money to secure wood and additional supplies, in order to construct it. This process is detailed a bit in the slide show.
The Bottles
Our primary flotation objects, we needed a lot to support our weight. Many other teams used tires, or floaters, but we stuck with the bottles. Collecting them all was one of the hardest parts of this assignment and figuring out how many we would need was also an issue. Since we had more than one kind of bottle, I had to find out how much each bottle type would carry, then count each bottle type. I will be including these calculations on a different post. I'll just say that i doubled the amount we would need to float, because we want to be above the water, not on the surface of the water.
Here's the Poster we used to raise awareness.

The other teams craft did technically float, but due to the narrowness of the craft, kept wobbling from side to side until it eventually, tilted over.

Here is the video made by my group member TC, for our final presentation.

We succeeded, despite great difficulties, and most important of all, we floated!!!