Inside the Secret Underwater Fort
by brian lam
A Nevada family of scuba divers is prototyping an underwater fort, an anchored air pocket in a net, in a secret location in the Sierras. It’s made with vinyl, mounted under a net, mounted to an rustoleum coated anchored octagon of steel. And it’s been there for three years! I’m going to say that this is Lake Tahoe, but there are certainly many large lakes in the Sierras, so I could be very wrong. What I am not wrong about is how incredible this is. Interview with the family over at Boingboing. [Boingboing]
That’s totally Lake Tahoe. There may be other lakes, but none that big, or that clear.
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Without a doubt, that is Lake Tahoe.
From the interview:
Jordan Needham: “I live in Reno NV, and let’s just say it’s in a local alpine lake. Even though it isn’t hurting the lake at all and there are entire trains in the same lake, there are some pretty fanatical people “keeping the lake blue” and they probably would have a problem with my little addition.”
The only lake that is synonymous with keeping it blue and “fanatical” people is Tahoe.
Who keeps track of CO2 levels in there?
They should add some floating plants to keep scrubbing the air.
Also have a notice to please vent a tank of air in here every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday…
VERY cool.
They need a bigger bubble and permanent PA, small coffee shop…