{"id":133026,"date":"2025-07-18T04:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133026"},"modified":"2025-07-18T04:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T04:00:11","slug":"chinese-farmer-turns-inventor-with-homemade-7-metre-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133026","title":{"rendered":"Chinese farmer turns inventor with homemade 7-metre submarine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostOn a quiet river in central China\u2019s Anhui province, villagers in Hanshan county stopped to stare as a sleek black shape sliced through the water with a low mechanical growl.<br \/>\nIt was not a military test or an industrial prototype. It was a home-made submarine \u2013 designed, built, and piloted by Zhang Shengwu, a 60-year-old farmer with no engineering degree and no blueprint to follow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d watched boats all my life,\u201d Zhang told Dawan News, a government-affiliated outlet, referring to the years he&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3318525\/chinese-farmer-turns-inventor-homemade-7-metre-submarine?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostOn a quiet river in central China\u2019s Anhui province, villagers in Hanshan county stopped to stare as a sleek black shape sliced through the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133026"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}