Build Your Own Submarine

Nerobro writes "There's a group of geeks out there who are bound and determined to build their own submarines. In fact, there's a large group who have been successful. The most interesting is Cartsen Standfuss's CSSX-1. There is a mailing list, owners group and sizeable archive of information at psubs.org."

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old-hat

[Lumpy]

The back of Popular Science has had Advertisments for plans for your own submarine,helicopter,airplane,etc... for decades. My neighbor growing up made the mini-sub in his garage.

No not a wear a wetsuit and you get an air-bubble type a full dry submarine capable of diving I believe he took it down to 60 feet... didn't have the guts to go lower than what you can safely escape from..

Nothing new here.

Any colour you like..

[adamofgreyskull]

..as long as it's yellow

the joke...

[riotstarter]

so they can say what's long, hard, and full of nerd seamen? our submarine.

Yay

[Cyno01]

Looks like the next round of Darwin Awards should be intetresting.

War material !

[eurostar]

This has to be stopped !
terrorists could capture one and...and...

think of the children !

Re:They better be careful

[donscarletti]

When I was 8 or so I had this great idea to build a submarine out of oil drums. I obsessed over it and spent Way more time than is healthy drawing up plans in coloured pencils... A cute little stick figure inside two oil-drums welded together and two little drums on the side of it which were ballast tanks. It even had a modified toster underneath it to work as a steam jet (like the one on slashdot a couple of weeks ago but wouldn't have worked, however it was Australian designed).

I can't help thinking that if I was one of those "active kids" you know the ones... the ones that leave the house more than just to go to primary school, I would have either electrocuted myself with a toaster or drowned....

Basically I owe my life to my lazyness... sitting around karma whoring and trolling is the least thing I can do to repay my sense of idolness, god bless slashdot!

Open Source Submarines

[oever]

Without being disrespectful to the Free Submarines Foundation, I would like to mention the existence of this Open Source Submarines webpage.

Apparently, the Open Source developmentmodel is very suitable for building submarines. I cheer at this development. However, I still prefer free as in Willy submarines.

Jules Verne

[hey!]

Impressive as the linked submarine is, it's just like a military boat: a steel cylinder. As useful as such a thing may be as a weapons platform, I can't imagine anybody riding in the thing for pleasure.

My own fantasy of a personal submarine comes from the Nautilus in 20000 Leagues Under the Sea. The most important feature: a glassed in drawing room, furnished with overstuffed chairs and oriental rugs, from which I can survey the unfolding panorama of the sea as I smoke seaweed cigars and sup on lobster tails whilst I plot my revenge on humanity.

Spent a few years on Fast Attack subs

[bubblegoose]

I spent 6 years on or working on fast attack subs. We had controls called Subsafe. This meant every part contributing to water tight integrity was tracked from the start of manufacture to installation.

Subsafe parts were quite expensive...but you were 100% pretty confident you weren't getting some cheap Taiwanese knockoff parts.

Where are these guys getting their stuff, the hardware store down the street? Enough said. Would I even think of going down in one of these boats? No...not ever.

Look at the lessons the Navy learned, Scorpion, Thresher. How are these things powered...batteries? Have you ever heard of the Bonefish