It's Winter season down under in New Zealand, so I guess Simon is busy at work studying avalanches and working on his advanced degree!
My winter work almost started as soon as I got back from my trip from visiting U-505 and U-995. Now into my three year of full-time work and research into snow and avalanches. I found it hard to do the same amount of U-boat research I did when I only worked for 6 months of the year. And I am planning to be busy for the next few years with a new laser scanner we purchase this summer at work. With this laser scanner we can scan the snow surface up to 6 km away, to 15 mm precisely, 300,000 times per minute. Would have love it while visiting U-995
I am still going through all the data and photos I collected while at U-995 and slowly improving the accurate of my model. I am hoping to make so big improvement to the casting and pressure hull this coming summer.
I never confirm the actual layout of the bedplate, but I believe the bedplate surface was a different bit of steel plate, with the bedplate supports angle down at 25 degs to the pressure hull.