I believe the reason for this was due to an inability to obtain product liability insurance at reasonable rates. and began to build Mk III submarines for the new owners… After we built twelve of the Mk III submarine hulls, I was ordered cease production. It was an offer that I was not in a position to refuse so, regretfully, I liquidated Kittredge Sports Subs, Inc. began building Mk III submarines, a firm which had just gone public made an offer to purchase the manufacturing rights to the Mk III. And so the Mk III submarine was born… Less than a year after Kittredge Sports Subs, Inc. A scientist in the Florida Keys needed a special one-man submarine for a scientific study. No sooner had I completed it than my first order for a submarine came in. I sent two complete conning towers to a gentleman in Hong Kong who stretched out the hull and made it into a two-man submarine with the second man sitting in tandem… It soon got to the point where I needed a building but I didn’t want to go into debt so I went out in the woods and cut nine tall, stout junipers and nailed together a 40′ x 40′ pole type structure. An eye surgeon in Atlanta Georgia… A marina operator in Maine… All around the world people were writing to me for parts for the Mk II.
#BUILDING A PERSONAL SUBMARINE SKIN#
“ two years advertised the plans in Skin Diver magazine. After his Mark 2 (a different sub than the one pictured above), he received numerous requests for plans so he formed a company: “Kittredge Sports Subs, Inc.” In his own words, here is what happened after he transitioned from hobbyist to small business owner: Kittredge was a submariner in the Navy before he left and started building personal subs. Naval facility to a max pressure of 850 feet and is rated for operations to 600 feet. This sub was built by George Kittredge, the father of small personal submarines, in 1979.
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