Submarine and Other Inventions in the News:
Popular Science
Drainpipe Submarine: An underwater vehicle that can dive 30 feet
Justin Beckerman was walking to high school with some friends when one of them spied an abandoned soda fountan in a parking lot. "Dude, you should go and get that," his buddy said. He knew Beckerman was collecting parts to build a one-man submersible, with the hope of piloting around New Jersey's four-square-mile Lake Hopatcong. After School, Beckerman dismantled the soda fountain, harvested several pieces from the machine, including a compressed-air regulator and rushed home to get to work.
ABC News | Yahoo News
Dive! Dive! Dive!: Teen Inventor Successfully Tests Homemade Submarine
Most hardworking teenagers play sports and complete their homework after school. Justin Beckerman, 18, does all that and builds machines. His latest creation? A fully-submersible, one-man submarine he made with $2,000 worth of materials from the hardware store.
"I actually had a lot of experience building other submarines, [but] I wanted to challenge myself," said Justin, a life-long inventor from Mendham, N.J.
His goal was to make a sub that could "actually be used by other people and not just me," he said.
CNN
High-school teen builds one-man submarine for $2,000
(CNN) -- The submarine's body may be constructed from drainage pipes and the hatch from a recycled skylight, but according to its 18-year-old inventor, this single-person U-boat can plunge to a depth of 30 feet and has already completed three successful dives.
The Nautilus took high school inventor Justin Beckerman just six months and $2,000 to put together -- all while keeping on top of his homework.
"He has been building things since he was two years old," says his mother, Jess Beckerman. "If we tried to help him we would just get in the way and mess things up."
Huffington Post
Justin Beckerman, New Jersey Teen, Built A Working Submarine In His Spare Time
Have we found the next tech millionaire genius?
Just one week after high-school dropout David Karp sold his start-up Tumblr for $1 billion cash to Yahoo, we've stumbled upon high schooler Justin Beckerman who has built a one-man submarine.
If you're starting to feel unaccomplished, be warned: this is just one of many projects that Beckerman has undertaken in the past few years. When he was 12, he made a remote-control cleaning vehicle, and when he was about 14, he made a helmet for watching videos.
MSN
Teen who is far more motivated than you has built his own submarine
We know teenage boys need their privacy, but this is ridiculous. Justin Beckerman, 18, of New Jersey, has built himself a fully functioning one-man submarine, capable of diving to a depth of 30 feet. Beckerman will be able to explore both his local lake and his own inner depths in this high-tech craft, which has a communications system and an ultra-bright light to illuminate his surroundings. His parents must be very proud. But they're saps for letting him build it. You can't make a kid do anything when he's 30 feet under the surface of a lake.
Business Insider
A Teenager Built His Own Working Submarine
Justin Beckerman, an 18-year-old high school student from New Jersey, built and wired a fully-functional, one-man submarine. The underwater vehicle is mostly made of the lightweight, yet strong, grooved plastic typically used in piping.
The construction feat is less than surprising to those familiar with Beckerman's talent — he's been engineering products out of various building materials since he was two years old, the teenager told Business Insider.
Beckerman salvages every old or broken device he can find, along with donations from friends and neighbors, and occasional trips to electronics recycling facilities with his dad.
CBS
Go Deep! Teen Submerges Homemade Submarine In NJ Lake
HOPATCONG, N.J. (CBSNewYork) &mdash Justin Beckerman has been building things since he was 2 years old, but his most recent invention may be his most impressive piece of work.
At the young age of 18, Beckerman has built a homemade submarine, complete with a vast array of gadgets, including a trio of ballast tanks that hold water.
"Without the tanks it would sink, but with the tanks, filling it with air, it makes the submarine lighter in the water, pushing it to the surface," Beckerman told CBS 2's Christine Sloan on Friday.
Fox News
NJ teen builds one-man submarine
NEW JERSEY (MYFOXNY.COM) - A New Jersey teenager has built his own personal submarine.
Justin Beckerman, a junior West Morris Mendham High School, loves the water and loves to build things. Now he is in the final phrase of building a one-person submarine that could dive to depths of 30 feet.
"I wanted to see what I could build and figure out how I could build it," Beckerman says.
He's spent six months building the submarine in his parents' basement. It cost an estimated $2,000.
NBC News
'Driven' teen makes a working, one-person submarine
An 18-year-old high school student has built a submarine that he can dive in out of parts he found lying around his parents' New Jersey summer home and ordered off the Internet.
Why?
"It is just generally what I do," Justin Beckerman, who starts his senior year next fall at West Morris Mendham High School in New Jersey, told NBC News. His list of previous accomplishments is equally impressive, ranging from homemade remote-controlled vehicles to artsy mixed-media sculptures.
Lake Hopatcong News
Exploring Lake Hopatcong in a Submarine
The fictional 1980s TV character MacGyver lives on in 18-year-old Hopatcong summer resident Justin Beckerman.
Since the age of 2, Beckerman has been combining art and science and making things, things that sound an awful lot like the things MacGyver used to make. Granted, nothing Beckerman has made (yet, anyway) has been used to save lives but the things he makes, and there are a lot of them, are all made from typical household items: string, paper plates, lined paper, balloons, landscape flags, the guts from old computers, TVs, radios and tape--lots of tape. Scotch tape. Packing tape. And of course, the tape of all tapes, duct tape. It's still his 'tape' of choice.
Star Ledger
Teenage Thomas Edison builds submarine for Lake Hopatcong
At age 12, he built the "Cleaning Car," a remote-control vehicle that could mop and vacuum the floor.
When his sixth-grade science teacher mused about how nice it would be to have a device that got people to hush or clap on cue, he arrived at school the next day with a homemade quiet/applause sign with lights.
Two years later, he created "Head Entertainment," a helmet gizmo that allowed users to watch close-up videos without ever having to crane their necks.
Daily Mail
The real-life MacGyver! High school student builds working one-man SUBMARINE
Justin Beckerman has been inventing things since he was 2 years old, and this month, the 18-year-old New Jersey boy unveiled to the world his latest creation - a fully functional one-man submarine.
Beckerman, a high school junior from Mendham, New Jersey, built the underwater vessel from the lightweight corrugated plastic used in drainage pipes.
The nine-foot-long, 1,300-pound submarine, dubbed The Nautilus in homage to the first nuclear sub, can dive to depths of 30 feet, although the aspiring engineer has yet to pressure-test it in the water.
Cuba Debate
Un submarino es la última invención de Justin Beckerman
A sus 18 años Justin Beckerman ya imita a Thomas Edison. Pese a su corta edad, Justin ya ha inventado una aspiradora accionada por control remoto, un cine doméstico, y -la que es su última creación- un submarino completamente operativo.
Justin Beckerman, un joven de Estados Unidos aficionado a la electrónica, ya es autor de varios inventos ingeniosos, el más reciente de los cuales es un submarino capaz de sumergirse a una profundidad de 10 metros y que consta de un panel de control real en la cabina.
Gizmodo
High School Student Builds Working Submarine: Possibly Wants to Defect
A high school sub usually means your teacher's sick and you get a free period to screw around. But for one student, its meaning is a little more literal. Eighteen-year-old Justin Beckerman could be considered the reincarnation of Thomas Edison. In his brief life, Justin's created a remote controlled cleaning machine, a helmet home theater, and now a fully functional one-man submarine that can dive as deep as thirty feet. It kind of puts your baking soda volcano to shame.
Inhabitat
Eighteen-Year-Old Builds One-Man DIY Submarine Out of a Drainpipe
Eighteen year-old Justin Beckerman isn't your ordinary high school student. Instead of planning for prom night, Beckerman is taking rides in a one-man submarine he built from the ground up. Referred to as the teenage Thomas Edison, the New Jersey resident spent one month designing and five months building his nine-foot-long submarine. The submarine can dive as deep as thirty feet, giving Beckerman plenty of room to explore Lake Hopatcong—in between crew team practice and homework, of course.
CBC News
Teen Designs and Builds Working Submarine
This New Jersey teen - who's previously designed and built remote control mops, miniature boats, and helmet cams - has upped the invention ante by creating a fully functional one-man submarine.
Justin Beckerman, a student at West Morris Mendham High School, built the vessel, which is capable of reaching depths of 30 feet, out of a drainage pipe (carefully sealed at both ends), the motor from a small fishing boat, a skylight (that's what the dome on top is made out of), and various other parts.
Miami Newsday
Justin Beckerman: High school student builds working one-man SUBMARINE
Justin Beckerman has been inventing things since he was 2 years old, and this month, the 18-year-old New Jersey boy unveiled to the world his latest creation - a fully functional one-man submarine.
Beckerman, a high school junior from Mendham, New Jersey, built the underwater vessel from the lightweight corrugated plastic used in drainage pipes.
The nine-foot-long, 1,300-pound submarine, dubbed The Nautilus in homage to the first nuclear sub, can dive to depths of 30 feet, although the aspiring engineer has yet to pressure-test it in the water.
Techhive
A high school student just built a submarine that really dives underwater
Justin Beckerman, an 18-year-old high school junior from New Jersey, just built a completely DIY, fully functional one-man submarine.
Yeah. Really.
The West Morris Mendham High School student built a nine-foot-long, 1300-pound submarine dubbed the Nautilus. This underwater vessel, fashioned mostly out of lightweight corrugated plastic tubes typically used in drainage pipes, doesn’t just look the like a submarine; Justin says it can dive to depths of 30 feet.
Digital Journal
School teen Justin Beckerman builds submarine that dives 30ft
Mendham - A New Jersey high school teenager Justin Beckerman, has built a one-man submarine, his latest invention. Beckerman's nine-foot-long, 1,300-pound submarine, The Nautilus, can dive to a depth of 30 feet.
Beckerman has been building things since he was two. When he was 12, he built remote-controlled vacuum cleaners. At 14, he designed and built headsets than can play DVDs. He has also built miniature model jet engines.
Technabob
High School Student Builds Own Submarine
Justin Beckerman, an 18-year-old student at Mendham High School in New Jersey has built himself a fully-functional one-man submarine. Yes, it actually works! He has taken it up to six feet underwater.
Justin has been building stuff since he was a kid, tinkering with miniature jet-engines, remote-controlled cars and more from an early age and now he has his own sub. This kid will be a Bond villain in no time.
CNN
Un estudiante de secundaria construye un submarino con sólo 2.000 dólares
(CNN) -- Justin Beckerman, de 18 años, sólo necesitó seis meses y 2.000 dólares para construir el Nautilus: su propio submarino.
El submarino, con capacidad para una persona, está cocnstruído con tuberías de drenaje y la escotilla de un tragaluz reciclado, pero de acuerdo con su inventor puede sumergirse a una profundidad de 9.1 metros y ya completó tres inmersiones exitosas.
"Ha construido cosas desde que tenía dos años (...) Si intentáramos ayudarlo solo nos entrometeríamos y estropearíamos las cosas", dice su madre, Jess Beckerman.