Some inventors are daring. Julian Sharpe, 50, qualifies as one of the most daring. Or just plain nuts. The Seattle inventor plans to test his “tsunami survival capsule” with a plunge over Niagara Falls. He says it will feel like “being rear-ended at 20 miles per hour.”
Sharpe, an aerospace engineer originally from Wales, has built two aluminum prototypes of the tsunami capsules. The vehicles are equipped with food and special air vents. One will sell for $8,000, the other for $10,000. The 2011 Japanese tsunami gave Sharpe the idea to create the capsules. Sharpe will do two Niagara Falls trials, the first with a crash-test dummy, then later in the year he hopes to make the attempt himself.









