Ride Waves And Explore Depths In a Scubacraft
The vehicle shown above may be both yellow and submersible, but please don’t call it a submarine. It’s a Scubacraft, the first self-contained submersible that’s also a capable surface watercraft. The brainchild of engineers and entrepreneurs from Wales, Scubacraft uses an internal combustion engine to reach a dive site where it can descend to a maximum depth of about 100 feet. “The experience is simply exhilarating,” Scubacraft sales and marketing director James Browne told Wired.com. “Nothing else can compare to traveling to a dive site at 50mph and then powering effortlessly under the water.” It’s not a pressurized submarine, which means that those on board must wear…

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