Erik has built his own submarine, it used 200 kilos of filler metals in welding. You want your own submarne, now you can buy Oberon Class Submarine from ebay. Wow! See the video(Sweden) of Erik's submarine, at the below.
"Erik Westerberg was 5 years old when he first saw tons and can dive to a depth of 100 meters. Down a large oil tank standing next to a neighbor's barn in in the dark waters of the Gulf of Bothnia, the sub-his rural hometown in northern Sweden. "I started marine is powered by an electric motor from a dreaming of a submarine," he remembers. "I wanted lathe, giving a modest top speed of 2. 5 knots. so badly to see what was down there." Westerberg's submarine is only the second civil The underwater world still calls to him, but the submarine in Sweden. The first was built in the construction itself is now the biggest driving force. 1960s by Håkan Lans, who can also claim the inven- "When I first started building, I looked around for tion of a Neanderthal computer mouse on his list information, but there wasn't a lot out there, since of merits. submarines are mostly classified as military. So But there are other submarines in Swedish history. I gave up. I decided to build it completely from my In October 1981 the Soviet submarine U137, armed own imagination and common sense." with nuclear torpedoes, ran aground in the Swedish For the past two years Westerberg, 26, has spent archipelago, and for many years holidaymaking more than 2,400 hours, apart from his day job as a Swedes, wearing Speedos and sunscreen, kept a freelance mechanic, building his submarine. He had wary eye on the horizon. to invent a special device to bend the 30-millimeter, "It would be funny to put the hammer and sickle matte-finish sheet metal for his 6-meter-long hull. on the sub," Westerberg says laughing. "Then there He used 200 kilos of filler metals in welding, and could be a little action when I'm out and about." thought out all the tiniest details -- from the Volvo seat and racer steering wheel down to the smallest, well-oiled mechanical bearing."
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