I was just watching the Rose Parade on TV and was impressed with the amount of engineering in some of those floats. The one that got my attention the most in that regard was "Surf's Up". Surf's Up had a surf tank on the float. It had 6600 gallons of water in it, with surfing dogs. The whole thing was something like 65 feet (about 20 meters) long. I looked at it and thought they had to put some real engineering into that one just to keep it from collapsing in the middle of the parade.
The surfing dogs were pretty neat too. One comment from one of the announcers kind of got my attention. He said he couldn't even get his dog into the water, much less surfing. What kind of strange dog is that that doesn't rush into the water so he can come out and shake the water all over you?
Bill Gill
