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This is basically a small transparent plastic submarine that gets pulled along at high speed by a speed-boat. The submarine is connected to the speed-boat via a long tether. You sort-of lay headfirst inside the submarine, with your arms out in front on the handlebars. The handlebars control steering
left to right. Your feet have pedals available to them to control the dive planes (up and down). So basically you get to cruise around at high-speed underwater and control your movement with 4 degrees of freedom (up, down, left, right). Communication with the boat would be possible with radio headsets.
B A C Turtle
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slower in a shell [FarmerJohn, Oct 05 2004]
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I wonder if you could get it to leap out of the water? That would be fun. |
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I wonder if you could get it to stay IN the water, it'd need to be reasonably heavy to counteract the bouyancy. Have a bun by way of a desposit on one.
P.S. it's not really skiing though is it.. |
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If your tether were connected by a swivel and you wore a
pair of flourescent oversized fins, you could cross your
ankles and hold your fins just so, then, you could be a
spinning lure for a whale shark. Cool. |
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I Want one, but I'd rather have the boat to tow it. |
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Sounds extremely dangerous to me. You could encounter a shallow area very quickly in poor visibility behind a boat, and not have enough time to react. I'm certain that such a device would not be legal to use. Big fishbone. |
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I like it because it could be a man
made lake. |
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As for actually being underwater
skiing. The pod you are in could
be dragged along the sandy
bottom. |
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Why bother with the boat? Personal electric submarines are available (just like in "Thunderball"). |
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I've seen scuba divers with a motorized thing that drags them around. It doesn't go very fast, though. |
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Cool idea, but it's really 3 degrees of freedom: |
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1. up/down (X)
2. left/right (Y)
3. forward/backwards (Z) |
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(or 6 if you want to include pitch/yaw/roll) |
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If you're really bad at waterskiing you do this anyways. |
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Sounds like a good way for an evil villain to try to kill James Bond |
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Strange idea [Death]...trolling yourself with a down-rigger. |
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Hmm...Well then, I certainly wouldn't mention that to
Jonah. |
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[Shz] I thought land sharks were mythical prehensile
bipeds that wore plaid. |
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If the submarine whas sturdy enough you wouldn't have to worry with sharks...well, no more than you do with pedestrians when you're driving. I guess hitting a shark or anything else would hurt anyway |
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Realizing you can't pay for this might get you a nip from a loan shark. |
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I'm sure I saw this baked somewhere. No links though. |
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My freediving mentor used to have a plywood sled he'd tow behind his boat with a scuba diver on it - this was in an effort to cover ground looking for halibut. |
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When you saw a halibut, you let go of the sled and it floated to the surface, alerting the boat to circle back. |
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"to cover ground" - an interesting turn of phrase in that context... |
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