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August 10, 2014

I wanted to see exactly how deep a private citizen could get in the ocean. It turns out: not very deep.

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Luckily, I found a guy who’d made a submarine in his parents’ backyard in New Jersey when he was 15. He then made another submarine about ten years ago.
He had zero engineering experience. He majored in American history in college. But he just wanted to make a submarine. So he set up shop in Roatan, off Honduras, because there are no real regulations for homemade submarines. So I hopped in this little sub, about the size of a large suitcase, and sat there for four hours as we plummeted down to the netherworld below. It was one of the most shocking experiences I’ve had in my life.
Free Diving World Record Will Soon Be Pushed to 1,000 Feet

Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 10, 2014 7:32 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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