Aid to Skin Divers

A crowd-stopper around Rocks Road one bright Saturday afternoon last month was this underwater skin-diving torpedo, or submarine, built by Malcolm Hume, of Blenheim. The idea is that Malcolm, in skin-diving gear, lies on, or hangs onto, this contraption and is driven around the sea-bed. The machine is powered by a tractor battery and the stabilisers, fore and aft, allow him to manoeuvre quickly and smoothly.

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Malcolm and his secret underwater weapon

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Getting the machine into the water was a delicate operation

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The demonstration was watched with interest by an ever-growing crowd