The world got you down ? Wish you could get out to somewhere calm , beautiful , and quiet ? No job ! Just hop into one of these amazing one - man submersibles , take a deep breathing spell , and propel yourself down into the deep blue ocean . repose wait .
This is the Nordenfelt I, 1884 brainchild of Swedish inventor and industrialist Thorsten Nordenfelt 1884
Photo : Wikimedia Commons
One of the two Resurgam, an early Victorian submarine designed and built in Britain by Reverend George Garrett in 1878-79. The Resurgam I was a hand powered, one-man submersible; the Resurgam II had a three-man crew, and was steam-powered.
Photo : Garrett / Henry Guttmann / Getty Images
A submarine motor car, invented by Michel Andre in 1937.
Horace Abrahams / Fox Photos / Getty Images
The Motorised Submersible Canoe (MSC)—nicknamed ‘Sleeping Beauty’—was a British underwater reconnaissance or attack vehicle for a single frogman during World War II.
Photo : National Archives of England , Wales and the UK Government
The Biber, a German midget submarine of the German Navy during the second World War, came armed with two externally mounted torpedoes.
exposure : geni / Wikimedia Commons
The Welman submarine was a WWII one-man British midget submarine developed by the Special Operations Executive, but sadly was not very successful.
Photo : Minewarfare & Clearance Diving Officers ’ Association
This K-250 one-person submersible was designed by retired US Navy WWII submarine captain George Kittredge in the 1960s.
exposure : Steve
Mikhail Puchkov’shomemadepersonal submarine made a splash in the 1980s.
Photo : Mikhail Puchkov
This is the one-man microsubmersible Mantis, designed by Graham Hawkes, British marine engineer and submarine designer. You might remember it from For Your Eyes Only.
pic : Osel979 / Wikimedia Commons
C-Quester was one of the first mass-produced personal submersibles by the Dutch U-Boat Workx. Production was discontinued in favor of multi-passengers subs.
photograph : U - Boat Workx
Newtsub Deepworker 2000, a single-person submersible by Nuytco Research Ltd.
Photo : NASA Analog
Deep Rover, another single-person submersible by Nuytco Research Ltd.
exposure : T. Kerby / OAR / National Undersea Research Program ( NURP ) ; Univ . of Hawaii / NOAA
The Innespace Dolphin prototype personal watercraft, which can ride on top of, leap out of, or dive under the water’ surface.
pic : Scott Olson / Getty Images
AquaVenture WaterCrafts prototype sub, 2010.
exposure : AquaVenture / Facebook
Virgin Oceanic Expeditions’ deep sea submarine, seen here in 2011, is currently still undergoing testing.
Photo : Reed Saxon / AP
James Cameron’sDeepsea Challengermade it about as far underwater as you can go.
Photo : Charlie Arneson / Deepsea Challenge Facebook
Omer 8, a human-powered submarine recently built by students of the École de technologie supérieure (School of Higher Technology) in Montreal, Quebec
exposure : Omerets
Top exposure : Mikhail Puchkov
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