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I blame the headline writer. Frank Miles just repeated the quote he was given; he's only guilty of an extremely lazy article (paraphrase upcoming quote, print quote, add random facts about the quotee's organization, publish). The headline writer for some reason glommed on the adjective "self-propelled", rather than the much more interesting "semi-submersible".
Though I would be interested in seeing a non-self-propelled semi-submersible, though.
I think they had at least one human-powered one in the Civil War, doomed by incomplete information about how water transmits the shockwave from an underwater explosive.
Though I would be interested in seeing
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