Whale of a Scale
Emery Winslow engineers, working closely with Robin Friday, manager of animal training at Sea World, designed a special 9 by 15-foot platform, with a structural capacity of 40,000 pounds. The scale has allowed SeaWorld to attain a whole new level of animal husbandry. The old way of weighing by putting marine mammals in a sling and picking them up by crane has been eliminated. Since the scale has been installed, Emery Winslow has provided other whale scales to Sea World, as well as for walrus and polar bears.
“The scale has smooth, rounded edges and corners to avoid any possibilities of injury. The load cells themselves are completely submerged, and only the platform is above water to reduce the effects of wave action.“
