An Iowa man built his six-inch parakeet a miniature submarine so the bird could join him underwater in the Bahamas — the homemade capsule used a paintball air tank, safety valves and an oxygen monitor and carried Bebe about three feet beneath the surface for 15 minutes
spacedaily.com
One man's obsession with sharing his passions led him to engineer something no ornithologist could have predicted: a working submarine for a parakeet.

This entire article is gold:

  • The bird is called Bebe
  • Bebe was fine. He was there for 15 minutes, and there was a lot of practice, safety, and care. Bebe is also used to shenanigans of all sorts
  • The submarine is called the Bebosphere
  • ‘Stephen Lawyer, who really is a lawyer’
  • His wife is called Cher
  • People do the most beautiful unhinged shit with paintball cylinders
  • Bebe answers phonecalls
  • Bebe’s other hobbies include indoor cycling, outdoor cycling, and skydiving
  • Precisely none of this was AI

What a treasure to be the person writing this story, congratulations Mr. Moran

Video here

  • Fallibilist@feddit.ukEnglish
    411·
    15 days ago

    I bet that poor bird is terrified out of it’s mind. I get that the owner surely ment well but the bird has no concept of what any of this means and this is just cruel.

    • Æther@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      15 days ago

      If you refresh the page, OP included a video in the comments and it looks curious and not stressed :)