Two 23-year-old aeronautic machinists, Dan Melling and Adam Turnbull converted a van into an amphibious vehicle so they could drive it across Cook Trait.
Many thought they’d never make it. Cook Strait is after all one of the most dangerous stretches of water in New Zealand.
But they did it, with an old Toyota Town-ace van, named Roofliss, packed with some polystyrene and a propeller hooked up to a two litre diesel engine.
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