Destination Inner Space (1966) aka Terror from the Deep
I have the wetsub from "Destination Inner Space" aka "Terror of the Deep".
Below, several pics of my 1966 "Destination Inner Space" sci fi movie wet sub as it looked when I got it a few years ago. Someone through the years had installed a quick release cable attachment to the nose for towing the sub with a boat. Pull a ring on the dash and it releases like a glider tow cable releases. Originally the sub had two water shields one for the front and one for the rear. I was wondering what an old squashed fitting was doing on the cross piece between the two compartments, then when I saw the movie, I could tell it was the front attachment for the rear plexi watershield. That water shield was gone along with the original motor when I got it. The 75 year old retiring diver I bought it from that told me it was in the movie, also told me he used it being towed by a boat for lobstering in the keys. It has rudder pedals like an airplane for controlling the rudder. Rudder was also added sometime in the years because in the movie it didn't have a rudder but used a very small submersible electric motor that looks like it's battery was housed in what looks like a champagne cooler shoved over the tail of the sub. This was not on the sub when I got it. It has an aircraft style joystick for controlling the dive planes. I fabricated a motor mount made from an old stop sign and attached a 74 lb thrust big minkota to it. Can't wait to try it out. Runs full speed on 24 volts, half speed on 12 volts and can run in reverse. Got to make a waterproofed, oil equalized battery box to house two batteries, also a solenoid in a separate waterproof container to preclude any hydrogen explosion from sparks in the battery box, and make an underwater switch, finish the removable canopy, replace the old yellowed plexi water shield and paint her. Already rebuilt the dive plane pivots.
Below, working on fabricating a canopy for it.
Below, rear view of minkota motor mount made from an old stop sign. Stainless nuts and bolts, sub upside down.
Below, two side views of motor mount and motor.
Compare this below straight on view of my sub from a few years ago when I got it, to the one after this of when it was new in 1966 being used in the sci fi movie "Destination Inner Space".
Some more pics of my sub in the movie.
