The Man Who Built a Submarine to Escape East Germany

Описание: In 1968, a 28-year-old East German engineer named Bernd Böttger strapped himself to a torpedo-shaped device powered by a moped engine and towed himself beneath the Baltic Sea for five hours, navigating by starlight alone, to reach Denmark and freedom. A year earlier, he had tried to swim the same crossing and was caught by the Stasi. The court confiscated his equipment but returned his wetsuit, the one item that would keep him alive on his second attempt. He built his escape machine in a locked garage for roughly fifty dollars, never tested it once, and rode it blind through freezing water, patrol boat searchlights, and a fuel crisis that nearly killed him. Then his invention made him a millionaire. Then the sea took him back.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
1:14 - The Rocket That Backfired
5:59 - Caught
10:13 - The $50 Submarine
15:02 - 24 Kilometers of Darkness
19:37 - The Man Who Escaped the Sea

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