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17 One-Man Submarines That Will Take Your Breath Away
March 11th, 2013Top Story17 One-Man Submarines That Will Take Your Breath AwayThe world got you down? Wish you could escape to somewhere calm, beautiful, and quiet? No problem! Just hop into one of these amazing one-man submersibles, take a deep breath, and propel yourself down into the deep blue sea. Serenity awaits. This is the Nordenfelt I, 1884 brainchild of Swedish inventor and industrialist Thorsten Nordenfelt 1884Photo: Wikimedia Commons One of the two Resurgam, an early Victorian submarine designed and built in Britain by Reverend George Garrett in 1878-79. The Resurgam I was a hand powered, one-man submersible; the Resurgam II had a three-man crew, and was steam-powered.Photo: Garrett/Henry Guttmann/Getty Images A submarine motor car, invented by Michel Andre in 1937.Horace Abrahams/Fox Photos/Getty Images The Motorised Submersible Canoe (MSC)—nicknamed 'Sleeping Beauty'—was a British underwater reconnaissance or attack vehicle for a single frogman during World War II.Photo: National Archives of England, Wales and the UK Government The Biber, a German midget submarine of the German Navy during the second World War, came armed with two externally mounted torpedoes.Photo: geni/Wikimedia Commons The Welman submarine was a WWII one-man British midget submarine developed by the Special Operations Executive, but sadly was not very successful.Photo: Minewarfare & Clearance Diving Officers' Association This K-250 one-person submersible was designed by retired US Navy WWII submarine captain George Kittredge in the 1960s.Photo: Steve Mikhail Puchkov's homemade personal submarine made a splash in the 1980s.Photo: Mikhail Puchkov This is the one-man microsubmersible Mantis, designed by Graham Hawkes, British marine engineer and submarine designer. You might remember it from For Your Eyes Only.Photo: Osel979/Wikimedia Commons C-Quester was one of the first mass-produced personal submersibles by the Dutch U-Boat Workx. Production was discontinued in favor of multi-passengers subs.Photo: U-Boat Workx Newtsub Deepworker 2000, a single-person submersible by Nuytco Research Ltd.Photo: NASA Analog Deep Rover, another single-person submersible by Nuytco Research Ltd.Photo: T. Kerby/OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP); Univ. of Hawaii/NOAA The Innespace Dolphin prototype personal watercraft, which can ride on top of, leap out of, or dive under the water' surface.Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images AquaVenture WaterCrafts prototype sub, 2010.Photo: AquaVenture/Facebook Virgin Oceanic Expeditions' deep sea submarine, seen here in 2011, is currently still undergoing testing.James Cameron's Deepsea Challenger made it about as far underwater as you can go.Photo: Charlie Arneson/Deepsea Challenge Facebook Omer 8, a human-powered submarine recently built by students of the École de technologie supérieure (School of Higher Technology) in Montreal, QuebecPhoto: Omerets Top photo: Mikhail Puchkov Did we miss any of your favorites? Post the pic in the discussion below! |
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