Captain Nemo, eat your heart out.
Hmmm. A private luxury submarine, capable of 4-week journeys. Selling for "only" AUS$3B (So $1.98B U.S.).
Figuring a nominal speed of "greater than 40 knots". No worries about sea sickness. Laughs at storms. Winter at the polar ice cap; summer at the Great Barrier Reef; Tahiti, the Caribbean, Mallorca, and the French Riviera in season. Fresh lobster and crab nightly. Parties and dancing on the stern casing topside on calm nights.
1) Hell of a way to avoid paparazzi.
2) Coolest bug out ride ever for the apocalypse.
3) And of course, no one would ever use this to smuggle drugs, terrorists, arms, or people past the coast guards of 150 nations. Nosiree. Never happen. {OTOH, drop off a few dope loads "as a favor", and the loan note is paid off.} And of course, no one would get one of these and turn pirate. That'd be cheating. (Bonus points if you get Johnny Depp or Geoffrey Rush to dress up and play pretend captain. "...and really bad eggs...")
4) First sighting in the wild, even as CGI: Bond villain. Guaran-damn-teed.
Mongo like. But it still isn't going to be under my Christmas tree.
Maybe if I get 39 friends together, and we go shares. So then only about US$49.5M each.
If anyone gets one to review, give a holler.
That's a lot of hull openings.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how deep it can go.
If they have a dog on the boat, is it a sub woofer?
ReplyDeleteCOOOOOOL!
ReplyDelete@KurtP,
ReplyDeleteLike every vessel ever built, it can go all the way to the bottom of the ocean. ;)
However, if they wish to return to the surface, the article linked said the max depth estimated is to be circa 250m, which is a bit deeper than 800 ft.
Which makes the planned dining room windows problematic, but not impossible. Gonna be a bit dark below about 250' though. But this takes Disney's Submarine Voyage ride and brings it to life.
@JW,
Yes.
They'll have a Latina cook/housekeeper on board too.
Her name is Sub Rosa.
This guy's been trying to sell one since 2016, so far it's vaporware.
ReplyDeleteOr it’ll be bought by the Aussie navy to serve as a command ship for the nuclear submarine fleet they’re trying to build. It’s certainly luxurious enough for the admirals.
ReplyDeleteAdd a railgun and become the pirate Ragnar Danneskjöld.
ReplyDeleteAt a likely price of US$2B, of course it's vaporware.
ReplyDeleteLike every "flying car" ever conceived (one-off "prototypes" don't count).
But I'm still hoping he gets one down the slipway and into the ocean, even though there's only about 4 people worldwide who might buy one.
If the shares were a bit less than $49 million I'd say add my name to the ledger. I'd pledge my meager ammo stash to the armory.
ReplyDeleteWhat the!? I have never understood. Here the sub sits floating over God's creation, a magnificent reef. Yet the sub has a swimming pool?????
ReplyDeleteHmmm...the helo in the picture looks like your standard Bell/Sikorsky/Eurocopter, but its shadow looks like an AH-1. Forget the pool, I'm getting the Cobra. 😎
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