Barks and the refloated ship - scan request

[Lars Jensen]

Olivier wrote:

> Imagine that, coming up with a great idea, spending weeks and months
> and years developing it, only to find you can't patent it because a
> "silly kids' comics" artist thought of  it before you and it only took
> him a few days and he didn't even reap the benefits of  it.

In the case of Karl Krøyer, he and his technicians developed their
method in 14 days' time. There were several technical challenges to it,
which, amongst other things, necessitated experiments on a scaled-down
model.

And, just for the record: The ship sank on September 14, 1964. After a
month of pumping polystyrene balls into its hull, Al-Kuwait/Al
Kuwait/El-Kuwait finally surfaced on December 31st, 1964. According to a
contemporary source (the Danish newspaper Politiken), there were 5000
sheep aboard, rather than the 6000 I see mentioned on countless
websites. And I still haven't seen any direct quotes from Krøyer
admitting he got the idea from Barks' story.

Lars