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Personal Submarine Cruises SF Bay

Posted by michael on from the down-here-all-the-fish-is-happy dept.

LandSonar writes "Graham Hawkes, the guru of the submarine design business, tried out his new submersible sea plane yesterday in SF Bay. Called the 'Deep Flight Aviator'. Article and cool pictures. This craft doesn't use ballast like traditional subs. Flys more like a plane. 'It looks like something NASA might build or the Blue Angels might fly.'"

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  1. exciting! by jericho4.0 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "When we get up alongside sperm whales or giant squid it will get really exciting," he said.

    When I'm in a submarine, I don't want anything exciting to happen.

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  2. How long til these are outlawed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A cheap, small, personal submarine, capable of carring two people--or one person and 200lbs of drugs from Mexico or Canada into the U.S.A. (or 200lbs of explosive, or ...)

    Watch the U.S. Coast Guard build lots of sonar installations. Watch the ecologists sue the Coast Guard for what all that sonar does to the sea life.

    Watch Congress outlaw personal submarines.