Who needs roads when you've got a whole ocean to explore? 🪸
Armed with this very question, a team of divers recently drove a converted electric Toyota Land Cruiser underwater for over 4 miles, navigating Darwin Harbour's depths in Northern Australia. 🤿
Aptly named the “Mudcrab," this orange 1987 Toyota was doused in a layer of food-grade silicone to protect it from the salty sea and equipped with a fancy 88-kilowatt NetGain HyPer9 electric motor before its swim. 🦀
The journey was anticipated only to take 7 hours, but the seabed mud, silt, and sand made the trip much more difficult than expected. Against all odds, they emerged triumphant 12 hours later across the harbor and claimed two world records. 🏆🏆