Dolphin Boat

[Brambles]

As seen on the gadget show on Channel 5 this week:

It’s a submarine. No, it’s a boat. Actually it’s both.

Is this the ultimate toy for the person who has everything?

Or could it be the gArfish’s new rib flicking device ???




http://www.innespace.com/picture_gallery.html

[jwalker]

Cool.

[ollyit]

how bizarre, id be interested to know how it works come on all you mechanical engineers... (high tower)

[codprawn]

That looks like the submarine used in one of the TinTin books - written in the 50s I think!!!

[Richard B]

Originally Posted by ollyit

how bizarre, id be interested to know how it works...

If you browse around their site, it tells you.

It's fantastic... 'specially with "with Dr Evil logos"

[hannah]

wow very perculiar , who knows what sort of boat will be in fashion by the time i'm old enough to get one!

[Brambles]

Originally Posted by codprawn

That looks like the submarine used in one of the TinTin books - written in the 50s I think!!!

Did you see the Sunday Times at the wekend? There was an article about
Jacques Cousteau's grandson who has had a mechanical shark built for filming purposes. It was inspired by the Tin Tin story you mention.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...807255,00.html

[codprawn]

Originally Posted by Brambles

Did you see the Sunday Times at the wekend? There was an article about
Jacques Cousteau's grandson who has had a mechanical shark built for filming purposes. It was inspired by the Tin Tin story you mention.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...807255,00.html

No I didn't see it but am a great fan of tintin. Read them all as a kid but only when i reread them as an adult did I realise the hidden undertones and technical knowledge etc - they are educational without the reader realising the fact.

The other books I love like that are by Willard Price. About 2 brothers travelling the world collecting animals for zoos - very educational and great stories!!!

[DGR]

Willard Price books!! They were great!! Hal and his brother - whatever his name was...

They built a mechanical shark for a documentary that the BBC showed a couple of years ago - they sent it in to swim among sharks (for short periods)to study them - I think they took offence and it got trashed a couple of times - it was clever though.

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[codprawn]

Originally Posted by DGR

Willard Price books!! They were great!! Hal and his brother - whatever his name was...

They built a mechanical shark for a documentary that the BBC showed a couple of years ago - they sent it in to swim among sharks (for short periods)to study them - I think they took offence and it got trashed a couple of times - it was clever though.

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Roger!!!

Amazing the things those books could teach you - like a Vampire bat actually laps up the blood like a cat - rather than sucking it up!!!

A good one about undersea life - they had a sub that was also a surface effect aircraft - remained pressurized so they could come straight up after living at 100' deep - travel to another island - then submerge again - all logically possible!!!