Konrad Gehringer

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Konrad Gehringer (4 June 1939 - 12 December 2003)^{[citation needed]} was a German car mechanic and bus driver^{[citation needed]} who had a one-man operation for producing electronic organs in Pforzheim, Germany.

Gehringer was best known as the inventor and developer of the one-man submersible Speleonaut, the first submarine designed for cave diving. The Speleonaut was designed in collaboration with Gehringer's friend, the cave diver Jochen Hasenmayer, who has used it since 1996 to explore the Blautopf cave system.^[1]

References

↑ (German) Schnabel, Ulrich (1 March 1996). "Der Mann im Blautopf" [The man in the Blautopf]. Die Zeit (in German) (10). Retrieved 26 July 2013.

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Name	Gehringer, Konrad
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Short description	German inventor
Date of birth	4 June 1939
Place of birth
Date of death	12 December 2003
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