Glass bottom boat
A glass-bottom boat is a watercraft in which parts of the hull below the waterline are made of transparent materials in order to allow glimpses into the water without being disturbed by the moving water surface.
The first glass bottom boats were believed to have been built in Silver Springs , Florida , in the late 19th century . In 1878, Hullman Jones is said to have used such a boat to look for usable tree trunks in the water. However, no contemporary records are available, the invention is partly attributed to Phillip Morell. What is certain is that John Morell used glass-bottom boats for excursions in the 1890s, and in 1903 a lawsuit was brought against him in Silver Springs because the many visitors disrupted operations in the harbor. The patent for a glass bottom boat was registered in 1903 by Louis Larson in Muskegon , Michigan .
At the beginning of the 20th century, glass-bottom boats were also used for research purposes, for example in the Adriatic Sea from 1912 .
Interior view of a glass bottom boat at the Aquarena Center in San Marcos , Texas
Glass bottom boat at Silver Springs Nature Theme Park near Ocala
Modern glass bottom boat on the Great Barrier Reef
View from a glass bottom boat in Fathom Five National Marine Park, Canada
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Tim Hollis: Glass Bottom Boats & Mermaid Tails: Florida's Tourist Springs . Stackpole Books, 2005, pp. 9f
- ↑ The Springs Of Florida . Pineapple Press, 2008, pp. 64f
- ↑ patent US756244 . United States Patent Office, April 5, 1904
- ^ Thilo Krumbach : From the zoological station Rovigno (Adria). A glass bottom boat for coastal research . In: Arnold Berliner, Curt Thesing : The natural sciences . Volume 3, Issue 22, Springer-Verlag, 1915, pp. 281-283