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Author Topic: Man builds his own submarine Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 07-20-2006 11:37 PM                        Very interesting. A small submarine for 6 people with a acryl glass dome which gives you full view of the surroundings on three sides. Privately planned and initially also funded. Due to funding shortage, the project was taken over by the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth, England. Its story can be seen on the Discovery Times Channel. Two episodes, to be repeated on July 23.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-20-2006 11:54 PM                  Sorry Mike, but I liked your posts in the "Massage Parlor" thread MUCH better! This subject is:  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 07-21-2006 12:04 AM                        I will be back in the other thread soon, but in the meantime, let me say I am simply fascinated by submarines and I am surprised you aren't. Don't you like "going down"?  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-21-2006 12:08 AM                  Mike, I like the real thing, not toy subs. I've worked/filmed for commercial movies and been on small. claustrophobic, cramped WWII subs, as well as large ones like the one used in the film "Ice Station Zebra". In my younger (and "thinner") days, I was an avid SCUBA diver and have filmed many UW sequences and produced several UW/Diving "travelogs" as well.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-21-2006 04:04 AM                       quote: Man builds his own submarine Me, too!  |  IP: Logged Dieter Depypere Master Film Handler Posts: 343 From: Deutsch-Wagram, Lower Austria, Austria Registered: May 2005 posted 07-21-2006 04:57 AM                     A man in France once built a complete ship(!! I saw this on TV), so why not a submarine?  |  IP: Logged

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