Pedal-Powered Sub Abandons Channel Crossing

Image Courtesy of  Projet Poisson Pilote
Image Courtesy of Projet Poisson Pilote

By AFP, Seeker.com, August 8, 2016 

Technical problems cut short an attempt to cross the 150-mile-wide English Channel.

Two French engineers have been forced to end a bid to cross the Channel in a pedal-powered submarine after encountering technical problems, their team said Monday.

Antoine Delafargue, 34, and Michael de Lagarde, 35, set out from Plymouth in southwest England on Friday in a three-ton, six-meter-long (20-foot-long) submarine.

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