Remember the drug smugglers' submarine that was captured by Ecuadoran police last year? The 75-foot boat was capable of shipping about 9 tons of cocaine. Jim Popkin of Wired wrote a detailed look at its design after re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/31/inside-the-drug-smuggling-submarine/Phil Pauley's decidedly imaginative and optimistic proposal for an oceanographic research vehicle is a submersible tank. A three-person crew would pilot a lithium battery-powered boat for two to four weeks at depths...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/11/submarine-tank/Well, perhaps submarine is not the right term for this vehicle. Rather, part of this boat is partially submerged so that users can comfortably view the world beneath the surface of the water. The Korean company Rao...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/23/personal-submarine/Cyril Howarth spent £50,000 converting a canal boat into something that looks like a U-boat. He's placed it out on the narrow canal between Leeds and Liverpool (UK), much to the displeasure of local boaters: But the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/07/submarine-in-a-canal/A Japanese company is considering using submarines to diminish the power of typhoons that hit that n... ...ation: The idea is to use a fleet of around 20 submarines in front of the gathering storm, each fitted with... ...f shooting 480 tonnes of cold water a minute. The submarines...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/30/japanese-company-plans-to-use-submarines-to-stop-typhoons/(Video Link) The Lockheed P-3C Orion is an anti-submarine warfare aircraft in the inventory of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (among other navies). This video shows a demonstration of its capabilities by us...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/27/how-to-you-explain-anti-submarine-warfare-to-children/US Navy submarines can receive messages while submerged, but can't r... ...ill be able to relay surface signals to submerged submarines : The idea was to excite the upper atmosphere w... ...s required for one-way communicate with submerged submarines . The new system...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/new-bouys-allow-submarines-to-communicate-while-submerged/Law enforcement agents in Ecuador discovered a fairly modern, long-range submarine built by narcotics smugglers. It was about to launch for a trip to North America: The sophisticated camouflaged vessel has a conning...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/04/ecuadoran-drug-smuggling-submarine/(YouTube Link) There's an annual remote control submarine regatta in Canberra, Australia. Here's a 2008 video of a RC surface warship in a pool dropping exploding depth charges on a RC submarine cruising beneath it....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/19/rc-surface-ship-dropping-functional-depth-charges-on-rc-submarine/Photo: China Daily Tao Xiangli, a Chinese inventor, is reported to have built a functional submarine: Amateur inventor Tao, 34, made a fully functional submarine, which has a periscope, depth control tanks, electri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/06/man-allegedly-builds-homemade-submarine/
