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November 9, 2006: New homemade submarine from Russia
In the beginning of the year this German homemade submarine was noticed, and now this Russian one which is smaller has shown up.
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.
But it would be pretty lonely wouldn't it?
Maybe that's the point.
ashke Thursday Nov 9 08:26 AM
Is the paddling faster? =P
Emrikol Thursday Nov 9 09:02 AM
limey Thursday Nov 9 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 Thursday Nov 9 11:00 AM
*can't...breathe...claustro...phobia...setting...*gasp!*...in!!!*
barefoot serpent Thursday Nov 9 04:25 PM
smells like borscht in here.
xoxoxoBruce Thursday Nov 9 10:07 PM
Damn it, they could at least tell us what kind of engine it uses and what he's smuggling. 
SPUCK Friday Nov 10 05:42 AM
hahahah!!
Well I shouldn't laugh.. That thing is gonna be the death of him. Notice his hair is wet?
xoxoxoBruce Friday Nov 10 09:50 PM
I'll bet that's sweat. 
axlrosen Monday Nov 20 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 Tuesday Nov 21 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 Tuesday Nov 21 06:06 AM
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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 |
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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. |
SPUCK Tuesday Nov 21 06:39 AM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15811689/
A pic of the Fiberglass and wood sub of which you speaketh of.
xoxoxoBruce Tuesday Nov 21 07:31 AM
They must have had extensions on those pipes to be six feet under the surface.
CaliforniaMama Tuesday Nov 21 08:54 PM
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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.
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CaliforniaMama Tuesday Nov 21 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
They must have had extensions on those pipes to be six feet under the surface.
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How do they measure the depth, anyway? From the mid-point of the vessel, from the bottom, from the top?
xoxoxoBruce Wednesday Nov 22 04:39 PM
Damifino.
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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 Thursday Nov 23 12:24 PM
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Originally Posted by CaliforniaMama
Sorry, too busy being addicted to the 'net to get into TV . . .
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SPUCK Saturday Nov 25 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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