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Fueling the dolphins. A hose runs from the tanker truck into the center open deck area where it attaches to a fitting. No huge infrastructure, just get it done. (Picture taken at Thira's Athinios port, October 1998.) Dolphin ferry companies are listed here. Be sure to click for the closeups. |
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| Another example of low-tech virtue. A passenger is being helped on by one of the harbor police | |
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(on the left) and an agent of the
ferry company while a crew member waits in the doorway. There is a fin
that projects from the side of the boat (the thin white horizontal line).
It's just a short step off the dock to the fin.
(Picture taken at Thira, 1998.) |
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I didn't know that double-decker dolphins existed before I saw this one. Never ridden on them. Click for a close-up. (Picture of the Delfini III taken at Mykonos, 1998.) |
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An Ilio Lines hydrofoil departs Patmos harbor in 1994. The average dolphin carries about 140 people. Click on the picture for a close up. |
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The dolphin is a hydrofoil. Once free of the harbor, it speeds up and rises on its fins. Dolphins are more vulnerable to rough weather and thus more likely to be canceled when the wind kicks up. |
| A Ceres dolphin rests at Paros in 1986. |
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Dolphin links Dolphin 2000 - new version, not sure it has the same soul. (Up 8/30/08; posted 1/11/03) |
| Last modified 8/10/08; posted 8/25/1999; original content © 2008, 1999 John P. Nordin |
