How I Built A Homemade Submarine - Origins & Design | Interview

Learn how Steve built a fully functional homemade submarine and the work that went into making it possible. We will be releasing more exciting videos showing the submarine in action at deeper depths!

[PlanesBoatsandSubmarines]

This video is the first to our summer dive series!

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[sonoftheemperor]

ive always wanted to have my own mini sub with a small cabin in it so i can live on the water. i only wanted to build it to go 10ft down and have a oxygen snorkel that poked out the water. glad someone is living the sub dream

[MandenTV]

This is honestly such an interesting story, bro. I love watching people do cool things that they genuinely enjoy.

[speleotrog]

Ex Navy R&D structural engineer here. Recommendation for future such design efforts: ALWAYS round the corners of all openings in hull (or even aircraft) structures. Stress concentration is the concern. Theoretically, unrounded (squared-off) corners cause INFINTE stress concentration (think infinitely-high stress) ... practically, of course, imperfections, strain effects, and whatever, limit this to just much higher unknown stresses. Deep-cycle fatigue is the concern here ... if the stresses are really high, it doesn't take that many dive cycles to cause cracking problems. So, it works OK for a while, but then it cracks. Submersibles (obviously) can be catastrophically affected by this sort of thing. Inserted windows should also have rounded corners - weird things can happen at those square window corners. Round openings and inserts (windows) are best and that's why they are typically used.

[techienate]

Unbelievable, that's the coolest diy project I've ever seen!

And if you ever want to live in luxury in Brazil, you could probably make and sell these things for a million dollars a pop down there, lol

[Mark-mzq]

As a former US Navy Submariner that served aboard a Los Angeles Class nuclear powered attack submarine, I applaud the enthusiasm & effort. Even so, submarines provide plenty of opportunity to get injured or killed. Flooding, fire, loss of propulsion & depth control, collision with undersea mounts and vessels, and in the case of the US Navy submarines nuclear radiation, are just a few of the hazards. Familiarity, safety & the combatting of casualties were heavily stressed during Submarine School in New London, Connecticut. I highly recommend that you request and go on a tour of the Navy's Submarine School. Perhaps you'll be able to sit in on a class. Each student in my class did a free ascent with a Stenke Hood (a hooded air pocket that enveloped our head and shoulders) from a chamber as if exiting a sunken submarine. While it was done at a depth of about 80 feet, we were told that the max-depth of such an ascent was 300 feet. I reiterate, the dangers are very real...I was onboard during a collision, a fire, mechanical failure, and more. No submariner wants to see a fellow submariner get injured, or worse killed! Please be safe and NEVER cross that line. In closing, have you ever considered transitioning to model railroading? God Bless.

[rpbajb]

I love the vicegrips on the conning tower hatch.

[ammarubinmusthofa]

Please don't go exploring the Titanic with this

[Phil_Petty]

I served most of my career as a sonar operator and technician. My submarining career culminated as Chief of the Boat (COB) on the nuclear powered attack submarine USS Groton (SSN 694).

[unit]

This has always been a dream of mine and I’m so glad to have found this channel especially with a nick offerman type narration great video will definitely be bing watching this series

[valzzu]

thats cool. also its nice that u can control its elevation from outside :)

[kyleo]

I love the vise grips holding the hatch closed. I'm guessing you can only properly seal the hatch from inside so the vise grips are just for non maned testing.

[Byepolarchaos]

I didn’t have the skill to build a tower so we would enter it from below, but we did have a waterproof hatch in case we flipped. I’m so excited to watch all your videos.

[taurbaby]

I remember being a little kid and begging my dad to order the mini submarine kit that was advertised in the back of the comic books in the early 1970s.

[AWBuilder]

Amazing project. Hopefully the underwater view in the lake is interesting. Also, I suspect that you would need a warning beacon for boats floating above your dive area.

[TheBerendir]

How have you not got more Subscribers? Really fascinating stuff.

[STRAGHTAHEAD]

Steve: does a 5x overhead on the view ports for his leasure lake sub. Titan people: nah, 5-10% is fine.

[Byepolarchaos]

I hope you’re charging people to go diving, and I am still fascinated by your safety procedures, and how deep will actually dive. I noticed when you lived at the door it looks very very professionally made. What a great job.

[KMS_Bismarck_Ironblood]

I would love to see you build a scale model mini battleship, loved the content keep it up!!

[nordicstacker]

Sometimes you build stuff just to have fun people are forgetting To Have Fun😂