Homemade Submarine
Very cool - a NYC artist made a partial replica of David Bushnell's Turtle submarine and sailed it a little bit too close to the Oceanliner Queen Mary 2.
From The New York Times
City Room blog:
One Man’s Art (a Submarine?) Runs Into Trouble
What began as an unorthodox art project has become a law-enforcement headache today and the talk of the New York blogosphere.
Duke Riley, a heavily tattooed Brooklyn artist whose waterborne performance projects around the city have frequently landed him in trouble with authorities, spent the last five months building a makeshift submarine — a partial replica of what may be America’s earliest submarine, an oak sphere called the Turtle, which saw action (not particularly successful action) in New York Harbor during the Revolutionary War.
The wood and fiberglass submarine, which was launched into the New York Harbor, made its way toward a far larger vessel — the Queen Mary 2, one of the largest ocean liners in the world, which was docked at the cruise ship terminal in the Buttermilk Channel off Red Hook, Brooklyn.
What happened next was a delicate mixture of performance art and domestic security.
Heh...
Hat tip to the fine folks at
Telstar Logistics for the link.
Wikipedia has a short article about:
The Turtle
Posted by DaveH at August 5, 2007 6:04 PM