It sounds like an incredibly easy way to get onto ASIO’s watch list, but a Dutch company is offering something a little different to the regular, run of the mill boat hire options. They’ll rent you a two or three person submersible for “Global Charter”. More »
You’re gonna want to either get comfortable or move on, because I’m fixin’ to write about 700 words on video pinball. Seriously. More »
When it comes to the millions of dollars involved in smuggling drugs, even coked out dealers can tackle a big, complicated project. Recently, Colombian marines seized a homemade fiberglass submarine big enough to hold 4 crew members and 12 metric tons of cocaine —making it one of the largest such crafts found. Since the sub never saw action on the Pacific, there is no telling whether or not it would have actually worked. Still, if you had to die a slow death at the bottom of the sea, this would be the vessel to do it in. [Reuters] More »
A German submarine from World War I is threatening to surface again after it sank 89 years ago. Unterseeboot 33 is lying in shallow waters directly below the world’s busiest shipping lane, and it is feared that, unless a salvage operation is launched, passing tankers, cargo and passenger ships could have an unwelcome run-in with the ghostly sub. More »
2Dive is a mini-sub that Very Clever Personâ„¢ Michael Henrik Schmelter knocked up in his spare time. The vessel can dive to a depth of 100 metres (328 feet) and you can see him taking it out in the bay of Kiel, Northern Germany, in the gallery after the jump. [Spiegel via Spluch]
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The guy on top of that egg is artist Duke Riley. And the egg is in fact a Revolutionary War-era submarine replica made mostly of plywood, fiberglass and lead. And the police is pissed off because they thought he was a terrorist trying to sink the Queen Mary II at Pier 41 in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Maybe with a chisel. Or throwing paint balloons at it, I don’t know. [NYT]
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