CoL49: Echo & Narcissus

[David Payne]

 wrote:

>> and the kid follow the old regiment to Gallipoli, where the father
>> somehow builds a midget submarine, and every week they slip

To which Mike Bailey  responded (on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:35:14 -0600)

> dude...Midget submarine?

Midget submarines -- totally! "Midget submarines normally work with mother ships" -- from Wikipedia :

"A midget submarine is any submarine under 150 tons, typically operated by one or two but up to 6 or 8 crew, with no on-board living accommodation. Midget submarines normally work with mother ships, from which they are launched and recovered, and which provide living accommodation for the crew and other support staff. Both military and civilian midget submarines have been built and operated. Military types work with surface ships and submarines as mother ships. Civilian and non-combatant military types are generally called submersibles, and normally work with surface ships."

Personal-submersible hobbyists, like the father and the kid, take it to even greater extremes: 


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