Video: Homebrewed submarine by a Chinese farmer
Xiangli Tao was a 34 years old Chinese farmer with only five years education in a primary school, but right now this self-taught man is surprising the world with his big invention, a submarine! Tao said he never learn any theory about how to build a submarine, but just “feel it”. The submarine body is made of 5 oil drums, and costs him about 30,000 Yuan (about $4411 USA Dollars), while he only earns 1000 Yuan a month in Beijing. All the parts of the machine were from secondhand markets. He has made a successful diving show with His homebrewed submarine in a reservoir in Beijing on October 13, 2009. In the show, the diving totally lasted five minutes, and reached a depth of 5 meters. According to Tao Xiangli, besides this submarine, he had many other inventions, which he can’t make them real products because the lacking of money. He hoped his submarine can draw some investors to invest this invention business.
The video bellow is the diving show. The Diving is from the 2nd minute.
What we saw in the video above is very successful, but before the success, Xiangli Tao has failed many times. The diving test is not only hard, but also very dangerous. the video below shows a failing test carried on September 9. Tao even needed other people to pull himself and his machine out of the water. Tao received big laugh from other people, but he didn’t give up.
Don’t understand Chinese? Hmm, fortunately we found a video with English captions. Go and see what Tao Xiangli said about himself and his submarine.
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