[atomic_dog]

Wow! Could you imagine an American building such a thing? Maybe China deserves to be next world power.

[driftdiver]

yes I can imagine an american building such a thing. Only they usually build it out of stuff that won’t crush at depth.

I hope he can keep it pressurized properly because otherwise at 10 meters its gonna implode.

I hope he survives to try again though.

[manapua]

Yes, I can see an American building one. Then promptly being arrested and prosecuted once he dared to put it in the water.

[Kirkwood]

It looks like one of those Popular Mechanics projects from the 1950s.

[LetsRok]

This dude just spent a year’s salary building his own coffin.

[econjack]

I think this would be more fun:

http://zerosix.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/sub-that-swims-like-a-dolphin-seabreacher/

[TexasRepublic]

Nice coffin!

[Pharmboy]

Hmmm...there was an American who beat this guy out by a few hundred years. Check out David Bushnell

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Deathtrap.

Drowning would be such a miserable way to go.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

A Chinese labourer with only a basic school education has made a submarine at home.

No way I'd get into a submarine made by someone without a college degree.

[omega4179]

Its just a reproduction of the css hunley 100 years later.

[LibWhacker]

Now he’s just looking for a test pilot who’s crazy enough to take it down on its maiden voyage. Jeez, it looks like he just welded together fifteen or so 55-gallon drums.

[DoughtyOne]

The chances of getting me into that thing are, ‘not in a million years!’

[N. Theknow]

Could you imagine an American building such a thing?

Yep.

[SouthTexas]

Colombians make them.

[SteamShovel]

Although he has only an elementary school education, Tao owns 17 patents, including a head massager, a washing machine and a shoe polisher.

Yikes!!

I appreciate the effort and investment, but I wouldn't trust an elementary schooled shoe polisher inventor to make a safe submarine.

[Red in Blue PA]

My guess is he has an envy he hasn’t quite realized yet.

[rawhide]

I am impressed with this guy’s ingenuity. I hope for him the best to come from this.

[N3WBI3]

naa

[Wil H]

He’ll be mass producing these for Mexican drug smugglers in no time..

[BuffaloJack]

Looks great in his back yard on a cradle. I wonder what it looks like crushed flat. 10 meters of depth is about 1 atmosphere of pressure. That’s a little over 1 ton of pressure per square foot of surface area. I hope he includes some kind of marker so that relatives can locate his grave.