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Undertoad

11-09-2006 08:09 AM

November 9, 2006: New homemade submarine from Russia

http://cellar.org/2006/sub1.jpg

In the beginning of the year this German homemade submarine was noticed, and now this Russian one which is smaller has shown up.

http://cellar.org/2006/sub2.jpg

According to this site, it doesn't go very fast, only 4 knots. Says he goes from St. Petersburg to Helsinki, Finland and back without stopping.
This site with the same photos is in Russian if our translators care to have a go, if there is any more information.

http://cellar.org/2006/sub3.jpg

But it would be pretty lonely wouldn't it?

http://cellar.org/2006/sub4.jpg

Maybe that's the point.

http://cellar.org/2006/sub5.jpg

ashke

11-09-2006 08:26 AM

Is the paddling faster? =P

Emrikol

11-09-2006 09:02 AM

THДT'S PЯETTЧ COOL. I ШOИDEЯ ШHДT KIИD OF LICEИSE ЧOЦ ШOЦLD HДVE TO HДVE TO ЦSE OИE OF THOSE HEЯE IИ THE ЦS?

limey

11-09-2006 09:18 AM

Not really any more info, but here's what's there ...
"One-seater submarine (14 photos)
It's even got oars :)

More photos of inside

Comments: "I want one!!!", "Paint it grey, stick a shark's fin on it and half the beach would shit themselves )))))" " and a smilie.

All the other text is about sex with 18 year-old girls ... [yawn]

Trilby

11-09-2006 11:00 AM

*can't...breathe...claustro...phobia...setting...*gasp!*...in!!!*

barefoot serpent

11-09-2006 04:25 PM

smells like borscht in here.

xoxoxoBruce

11-09-2006 10:07 PM

Damn it, they could at least tell us what kind of engine it uses and what he's smuggling. :mad:

SPUCK

11-10-2006 05:42 AM

hahahah!!

Well I shouldn't laugh.. That thing is gonna be the death of him. Notice his hair is wet?

xoxoxoBruce

11-10-2006 09:50 PM

I'll bet that's sweat. :sweat:

axlrosen

11-20-2006 11:59 PM

Hmmm I think you may be on to something Bruce...

Homemade sub captured with 3 tons of cocaine
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americ....ap/index.html

wolf	11-21-2006 02:22 AM

10 posts and nobody has mentioned the "Get A Life" episode where Chris builds the submarine in his shower? For shame, all of you.

xoxoxoBruce

11-21-2006 06:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by axlrosen

Hmmm I think you may be on to something Bruce...

Homemade sub captured with 3 tons of cocaine
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americ....ap/index.html

Hmmm

Quote:

The submarine was spotted Friday 103 miles (166 kilometers) off the coast near Cabo Blanco National Park on the Nicoya peninsula.

"This is the first time in the country's history that a craft with these characteristics has been caught near the national coasts," Berrocal said in a statement.

U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents, FBI and Colombian officials aided Costa Rican authorities in the operation, Berrocal said.

Two Colombians, a Guatemalan and a Sri Lankan were arrested and taken to the United States, since they were captured in international waters, Berrocal said.

Not that it matters in reality, but I wonder where Costa Rica and the US Coast Guard, get the authority to snatch this submarine in international waters? :confused:

SPUCK

11-21-2006 06:39 AM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15811689/
A pic of the Fiberglass and wood sub of which you speaketh of.

xoxoxoBruce

11-21-2006 07:31 AM

They must have had extensions on those pipes to be six feet under the surface. :confused:

CaliforniaMama

11-21-2006 08:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf

10 posts and nobody has mentioned the "Get A Life" episode where Chris builds the submarine in his shower? For shame, all of you.

Sorry, too busy being addicted to the 'net to get into TV . . .

CaliforniaMama

11-21-2006 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

They must have had extensions on those pipes to be six feet under the surface. :confused:

Maybe they have extensions?

How do they measure the depth, anyway? From the mid-point of the vessel, from the bottom, from the top?

xoxoxoBruce

11-22-2006 04:39 PM

:confused: Damifino.

Quote:

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) -- Tipped off by three plastic pipes mysteriously skimming the ocean's surface, authorities seized a homemade submarine packed with 3 tons of cocaine off Costa Rica's Pacific coast.

Four men traveled inside the 50-foot wood and fiberglass craft, breathing through the pipes. The craft sailed along at about 7 mph, just 6 feet beneath the surface, Security Minister Fernando Berrocal said Sunday.

wolf	11-23-2006 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CaliforniaMama

Sorry, too busy being addicted to the 'net to get into TV . . .

*sigh* some of us were born before the internet.

SPUCK

11-25-2006 05:40 AM

They could have said a hellofalotmore. You know how much power it takes to move something that size underwater? I would bet at least a 100hp possibly 300. How was this accomplished?

I also agree with the 6 foot comment. How would raise and lower those snorkels without myriad <bad> leaks...

A 2 inch hole about three feet below the surface lets in 136 gallons a minute. I bet that sucker would go permanently negative buoyant<sink> in about 5 seconds.

The mysteries abound.

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