For your amusement!
This must surely rank high on the top ten list of crazy – but not totally improbable – projects.
In an article that appeared on the New Scientist website late in January, one Ted Ciamillo is shown standing next to the pedal-powered submarine he’s building (see pic below). His plan is to pedal it from Cape Verde off Africa to the Barbados over a period of about 50 days.
Ciamillo has a very slick website for what he calls the subhumanproject. There are some videos about the technology he’s going to use, including shots of him swimming about using the Lunocet fin that is the key to his sub’s propulsion system. (Essentially the Lunocet uses the same principle as a dolphin’s tail.)
It all seems pretty crazy, but when you look at how these guys are approaching the challenge, you can almost believe it’ll work. Very cool.
