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The
Gemini - Your Personal
Submarine
The
Gemini, as described by inventor
Robert Leeds is the world's first
underwater sports car. But with a
top speed of just five knots and
its ability to stand still, tilt,
rise and fall it is much more
like a sub-sea helicopter than a
high-performance
adrenalin-inducer. "Under the
ocean is the last unexplored
place on earth and certainly the
last place where there are no
personal vehicles," Leeds said
Thursday as his bright yellow
invention went on show at
London's Science Museum. The
Gemini, is in commercial
production - it will take three
people in cramped bucket seats to
depths of 50 yards for up to
three days at a time. But Leeds'
Essex-based company Subeo --
which is offering an array of
different specifications for uses
from research to special forces
-- is also getting interest from
marine research institutes in
France and even the military in
Spain. Now here's a really cool
toy to own if you have $845,000
to spare.
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