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Submarine Home Theatre May Require Captain Nemo’s Underpants
10:00AM Jesus Diaz | What would you do if you had $US100,000 to spend on anything you wanted? Make a home theatre room that looks like a rotten Nautilus, complete with working periscope, plutonium torpedoes that glow in the dark and sound effects? More »
Vehicles
Homemade Cocaine-Smuggling Sub: Party Time on Das Boot
12:00PM Sean Fallon | 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 »
Zombie U-Boat 33 Still Trying to Sink Ships in English Channel
3:30AM Addy Dugdale | 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 »
Home-Made Mini-Sub Dives to 328 Feet
1:17AM Seamus Byrne | 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] galleryPost('dive2minisub', 8, '2Dive Mini-Sub'); More »
Fiberglass Ghetto Sub Intercepted in Brooklyn Harbor Missing Pastrami, Cheddar, Pickles
8:07PM Seamus Byrne | 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] galleryPost('replicasub', 4, 'Replica Submarine in Brooklyn'); More »
We All (Want To) Live in a Yellow Submarine
12:57PM jenneth | Yachts are so passe. Media magnates and other filthy richers that dare to be different should check out the submarines from Exomos, available for a suprisingly-affordable $40,000 in yellow, blue, green, orange, black or white.
The battery-powered Goby can hold up to three people and travel up to 40 metres below the surface for 8 kilometres per charge. [The Red Ferret Journal via Crave] -Jenneth Orantia More » 
iBotics Stingray Up Against it at in a San Diego Swimming Pool
10:56PM Seamus Byrne | This is the Stingray robo-sub, one of the competitors in the tenth Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition, which is taking place at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego this weekend. Rather confusingly, one of its rival’s entries, from the U.S. Naval Academy, is known as Project Stingray, which you can see below. It’s not as sexy as the one above, although the Academy boys get points from me for looking buff in their shorts. galleryPost('stingrayrobosub', 4, 'stingrayrobosub'); More »
Microsoft’s Paul Allen’s $12 Million Yellow Submarine
12:13PM Seamus Byrne | It appears Microsoft’s co-founder is a big fan of things that sink. Obviously an avid Beatles fan, Allen’s latest toy is a fully functional 40-foot yellow submarine (not to be confused with a 40-foot Yello Sub, which would be an even worse investment). He’s now a member of a small, exclusive clique of ultra-rich underwater explorers; about 100 personal submarines are floating around our oceans. Hopefully it came with better drivers than Vista (zing!). [Paul Allen's New Sub via Valleywag] More »
Aussie’s two weeks underwater in a box
8:56AM Seamus Byrne | In a flooded quarry in Albury, Lloyd Godson spent 12 days in a yellow submarine. Not any submarine. “The world’s first self-sufficient, self-sustaining underwater habitat.” By self-sustaining, they mean he still needed food deliveries, but it did generate its own oxygen, thanks to special algae soaked in Lloyd’s urine. Mmmm… I can almost taste the aroma…
Can’t say I spotted this in local press, but there was a big story on the ordeal experiment at the Daily Telegraph in the UK. That’s where the cool diagram came from too.
Australian emerges after two weeks in underwater box [Daily Telegraph UK] [via Neatorama] More » 
