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This reminds me of the Sawfish ROV http://www.tritonlogging.com/what-we-do/harvest-technologies/the-sawfish-underwater-harvester/ used to harvest submerged trees.

Apparently this fellow hasn't heard of the Sawfish?

The Sawfish is powered by electric motors, sports eight video camera eyes as well as sonar, and uses “biodegradable and vegetable oil-based hydraulic fluids.” Triton estimates that British Colombia alone has five billion board feet of salvageable lumber submerged underwater and that the number could exceed 100 billion board feet worldwide. The estimated value of these some odd 300 million submerged trees is $50 billion. (From Treehugger)

Also, commercial grade cannabis-the kind that doesn't get you high when you smoke it-can provide 42% of our current lumber needs by eliminating the need to use lumber for paper products. Not to mention the other commercial products you get from it, such as clothing, food and solvents for use in paints, thinners and other industrial processes. To top it all off, you get several crops per season, rather than one crop per every two decades.

So anyone saying "peak lumber" should just paste a cutout of Glenn Beck on their face and call it done.

here (stolen from comments way down the page)

Photo.

http://www.tritonlogging.com UK Geeks will want this

erm ... and additional info at the company's web site: www.tritonlogging.com

Triton Logging Company Engineering Page has a photo of what is presumably the Sawfish submarine.

(darn, I forgot to close a quote. /. needs a cancel feature)