Comments on: Inventor Gets Thrill in Homemade Submarine http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/19/inventor-gets-thrill-in-homemade-submarine/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:40:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Stannous http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/19/inventor-gets-thrill-in-homemade-submarine/#comment-619813 Stannous Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:43:35 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/19/inventor-gets-thrill-in-homemade-submarine/#comment-619813 He can see twenty feet in San Francisco Bay? Not bloody likely! (even in 1933, it's a tidal estuary and thus very murky) He can see twenty feet in San Francisco Bay?
Not bloody likely! (even in 1933, it’s a tidal estuary and thus very murky)

]]> By: Rick Auricchio http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/19/inventor-gets-thrill-in-homemade-submarine/#comment-619746 Rick Auricchio Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:15:22 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/19/inventor-gets-thrill-in-homemade-submarine/#comment-619746 Yes, that was my first thought: hitting something or becoming snagged. As long as he could open the hatch safely and exit the craft, he'd have a way to escape. But it's still way too scary for me! Yes, that was my first thought: hitting something or becoming snagged.

As long as he could open the hatch safely and exit the craft, he’d have a way to escape.

But it’s still way too scary for me!

]]> By: Myles Rempel http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/19/inventor-gets-thrill-in-homemade-submarine/#comment-619630 Myles Rempel Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:32:36 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/19/inventor-gets-thrill-in-homemade-submarine/#comment-619630 There is a different article in these archives showing how to build one of these submarines. My thought was it was the one of the most gratuitously dangerous things I had ever seen. Skimming along an unkown lake bed with no communications to the boat. What happens when one hits a submerged log? There is a different article in these archives showing how to build one of these submarines. My thought was it was the one of the most gratuitously dangerous things I had ever seen. Skimming along an unkown lake bed with no communications to the boat. What happens when one hits a submerged log?

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