Bill-

A few years ago I tried one of these out. There was a bit of a current 
running and the net result was full speed ahead and backwards. You made 
better progress swiming without the torpedo than it was to push the thing 
up-current.

My idea was to mount a speargun spear in the nose and launch it at a 
school of fish. After a few minutes of doing loops through a bait-ball 
you could wind up with a pretty good meal skewered on it.

   Jim

On 12/29/97 10:42 AM Bill Mee wrote:

>Jim,
>
>This may be a troll to see if we admit to knowing anything about torpedo
>scooters.  In fact, I can recall a single occasion where George and I
>observed one of these peculiar devices in action.  This of course was
>only after we got past the coke spitting laughter stage. They are so
>totally anemic as to make you want grab the defibrillator paddles.  The
>queerish looking object produces about enough thrust to pull a GI Joe
>doll (without stage bottles).
>
>The thing has the appearance of a miniature Mark V gravity bomb. 
>Perhaps they could be converted to this better usage and sold to third
>world air forces. 


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