Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 26, DeMotte, Jasper County, 19 January 1933 — New Baby Submarine Does Its Stuff [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

New Baby Submarine Does Its Stuff

The Explorer, a baby commercial submarine designed and constructed by the pioneer submarine inventor, Simon Lake, demonstrated its ability to navigate at any depth and to crawl along the bottom of the sea while its twoman crew surveys the underwater scenes. In the center of the group aboard are Dr William Beebe, eminent naturalist, and Mr. Lake, who thinks the vessel should be called the “Crab” because it-can crawl sideways or backwards on the sea bottom.