While Nigerian high school students highest recent feat is the design of a urine powered generator, a new Jersey teen by name Justin Beckerman has recently just completed another of his numerous projects, this time it's a One-man Submarine which he built with just $2000 and spare parts.. Oh, how I envy this dude..
The submarine's body may be constructed from drainage pipes and the hatch from a recycled skylight, but according to its 18-year-old inventor, this single-person U-boat can plunge to a depth of 30 feet and has already completed three successful dives.
Justin Beckerman chose to call the submarine Nautilus and it took him just six months and $2,000 to put together.
It get's way cool..
Armed with more modern conveniences than many proper homes, the fort has a TV, wall-mounted speakers, desktop computer, air conditioning, shelving, and fluorescent lights. "It has everything a house should have," says Beckerman, "except a refrigerator and a bathroom."..
Awesome, right?.. Well, the dude still has more..
If he had more time and money Beckerman says he would like to continue to add to the submarine. "I would love to add a robotic claw to the front. I would like to make the sub into a more useful thing with a basket the claw could put stuff into to pick up garbage and clean the bottom of the lake."
lolzz..badt guy!
The submarine has ballast tanks to maintain its depth and equilibrium; air vents that bring oxygen down from the surface; a functioning PA and a range of emergency systems including back-up batteries, a siren, strobe lights, a breathing apparatus and a pump to fight leaks. The vessel can remain submerged for up to two hours and travels beneath the waves at one and a half miles per hour.
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