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Snark and Soda
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The Proteus
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Bet that would be interesting in rough seas...
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Looks like a spider on skis...
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I saw the article in the paper this morning too. Thats pretty cool. Its draft in the water is only about a foot.
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Pretty tough to fish from a boat like that.
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You can lower the crew module and fish from it, evidently. But it doesn't look like it has much of a rig to "sail" away.
It's hard-hitting science journalism that lets us know what they had for lunch! JP
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Cool, we now have a name and some numbers on it. I posted pictures of this craft a month or two ago, it's as weird as it gets but follows the old form follows function rule.
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Proteus is also the name of a very common bacteria species that likes to colonize the urinary tract in some women. Not quit as fancy little bugger..
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The Proteus I remember...
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I thought this was the Proteus:
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