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Inspirations - Solving the puzzle, investigating the details of an abandoned project
Eirc Okanume, founder of the OCEANIC Historical Society, has honored me by sharing excerpts from an earlier study I wrote about the planned ocean liner OCEANIC III, on the website he created and operates as the premier online source of information on the history of the ship, it's building and demolition. Pleasantly touched that my work recognized in this way, so I seize the opportunity to take a closer look at the work of the person who made it all possible.
Fig. 1.: The part of my study concerning Lord Kylsant is on the Oceanic Historical Society website. Eric Okanume took special care to offer the source of the detail published on the website - the entire original study itself - to the attention of those interested, which is a very rare but, for me, an all the more precious gesture from his side.
Eric Okanume is an important figure in today’s oceanliner community, as his persistent interest and tireless drive help to keep alive – and indeed enrich with new and even more information – the story of the last great ocean liner of the famous White Star Line, the planned, ordered, but ultimately unfinished OCEANIC III.We first got in touch in the summer of 2019, and I remember well that he tirelessly analyzed the plan-variants, mechanical and design solutions made for the ship at different times, and shared the results of his analyses with those interested on his first website dedicated to the history of the ship.
Between 2019 and 2023, Eric conducted an enormous amount of research, reviewed and analyzed many, many sources, and created an ever-expanding and increasingly spectacular new websites to present his results, until last year he presented his latest, now third, website, which is the most suitable for sharing the knowledge he has gathered so far.
Meanwhile, Eric has mastered spectacular new visualization techniques through self-education, and thus has become capable not only of creating high-quality 3D images of his favorite ship, but has also trained himself in the use of the most modern 3D design and printing processes, so that he now produces series of models of the ship in various scales, the production technology of which he is constantly improving.
Eric's perseverance is commendable for achieving his results alongside his medical studies and after moving from Brazil to the United States, while having to cope with a new environment that was significantly different from what he was used to in many ways. Moreover, Eric carries out his voluntary work on the history of OCEANIC III in fair cooperation with other experts in the subject, aware that this kind of openness can multiply the effectiveness of research and educational activities.
In the next phase of the work, Eric intends to supplement the results he realized so far with the analysis of documents preserved in the most important archives but not yet scientifically processed, which he plans to publish in the near future, not only on his excellent website, but in a book that will be a worthy memorial to the ship and the professionals who worked on its design and construction.
Thank you for working together, Eric, and for the mutual inspiration!
Fig. 2.: Digital painting of the ’Super-Oceanic’ by Eric Okanume and Sheridan Finnegan (source). A version of the image imitating a motion picture taken with a 1930s film camera is also available here.