Slashdot Mirror
Your Own Luxury Submarine!
cheapo writes "Not exactly computer related, but fun none-the-less. Someone on my boating mailing list turned me onto this website for your own personal luxury submarine. For a mere $78 million, you can make all the other folks at the marina jealous with a 213 foot toy." That 78
million dollar price tag might seem steep until you discover that it comes
with its own docking mini sub. Now thats a bargain!
Does GPS work on board when it is submerged?
Bill Gates should buy it so he can torpedo Larry Ellison's yacht.
A3, F5
You sunk my battleship!!
01101001 01100001 01101101 01101110 01101111 01110100 01100001 01101100 01100001 01110111 01111001 01100101 01110010
I can't express how embarassing it is to be lounging around the marina, get challenged to a submarine drag-race, and lose to some other 100-foot submersible because I didn't hook up enough batteries. Finally, with the Phoenix 1000, I'll never have to endure their laughter again!
(Okay, okay, it's not funny... I'm just bored.)
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
I want to be the founding member of the "Mile-low club"....
S.t.e.v.e.
I saw this on the discovery channel. Supposedly they are all custom made. Steve Jobs has one that will dock in his 200ft yacht, and a Japanese customer wanted one with a laser cannon mounted on it so he could shoot fish. Sounds like Dr. Evil!!
As proposed, the submarine would constitute the single largest private undersea vehicle ever built, and arguably, the most significant personal transportation device of the 20th century.
Besides say...oh...THE AIRPLANE?
The problem with this statement is actually 2 fold, there's no way a personal luxury sub is the most signifigant personal trasport device of the 20th century. On top of that fact, the thing hasn't been built yet, so it should be of the 21st century. And considering the 20th century brought us the modern automobile, the airplane, and the space shuttle, I highly doubt that anyone would call anything the most signifigant anything of the century...only 2 years into it.
One of the measures of how dangerous a device
is is the amount of time from the second
you fsck up to the moment it's too late
to save you. By that measure, subs are more
dangerous than the space shuttles.
Thought I'd share.
how come its not called the nautulis (sp)?
phoenix is a fiery bird... this is a _sub_
I have enough trouble avoiding all the rich folk in their massive SUVs and now we have to watch out for them in submarines too? All those fishermen better keep an eye out for a submarine with a "My child is Citizen of the Month" bumper sticker on it.
That's right, for only 78 million you too can pretend to be the leader of the Discordians.
Green apples not included.
- Serge
there's a lot of problems associated with being underwater...
First off, there's a limited range where you could use it.
Second: You'd have to make sure you didn't collide with anything (I'm sure you'd hire a formet sub captain or something).
Third: it's not all that clear underwater. It's only clear in the shallow areas like tropical and what not. But in the deeper areas it's not all that clear and so you wouldn't see much.
Fourth: the upkeep on submarines runs millions a year, so the cost is gigantic.
Now the pros:
First: you can bring illicit drugs into the country and nobody is gonna stop you (how do you stop a submarine without blowing it up?) and if they do stop you, then you just flush the stuff down the drain.
Second: It's the mile deep club.
Finally: If the submarines a rocking don't come a knocking
internet like monkeys'
This is just what they're looking for!
Just get 9 of your rich fellow executives together and you can purchase your very own DD(x) Land Attack Destroyer.
Comes complete with 5-inch/62 extended range guided munitions and 155mm Howitzers, land attack missiles and of course, Tactical Tomahawk missiles.
No need to worry about the wife catching you fishing with your buddies either as it use stealth technology to give it almost no radar signature.
By the way, this ship has a fully robotic mini-sub to allow scouting in unfriendly water ways.
With a price tag of $750 million, they are just as affordable as these silly luxury 'subs.' Besides, you know what they say about submarine people don't ya?
int func(int a);
func((b += 3, b));
Some things you can't make up. From the Kentucky Legislature site.. "Encourage the purchase of a submarine to patrol the waters of the Commonwealth and search and destroy all casino riverboats".
You can see it at the Kentucky Legislature site HR 256 Maybe they can take the casino high rollers for rides in it after destroying the casino riverboats.
They have some Luxury Submarine FAQs that people may find interesting. My favorite:
What type of people buy luxury submarines?
Interested buyers tend to share one trait, they are all wealthy.
My comment: well, yeah, people living paycheck to paycheck generally don't buy $78 million dollar items.
Apple iSub. Sink different.
I gotta quit hanging out here and/or get more sleep. The first time around, I read that headline as:
Your Own Linux Submarine!
if you download their pdf file you will see some pics of some of their smaller subs.
As far as the largest one it seem they have not made it yet.
The reason they kind of hide their picuters of submarines, is because the actual boats look kind of ugly.
They are made to look like an yacht when surfaced, but the part thats underwater looks like a tube and breaks the continuity.
When they draw pictures they cheat, so they draw the bottom to look like the bottom of an yacht with large windows.
I'm impressed. I don't know of anyone capable of walking nine miles in an hour -- they exist, but are pretty rare.
That said, these boats have about the same speed as a dolphin or penguin.
http://www.seaworld.org/Physics/key.html
Rod Taylor
It costs serious bucks in fuel and maintenance costs to get a 200-odd foot object the size of a modest mansion up to, say, 30mph. There are a few that do it, but, again, costs are fantastic.
The 143' Octopussy is one of the more famous yachts capable of this kind of speed. According to this page, she has a cruising speed (optimal efficiency) of 22knots, which is about 25mph. At this dizzying speed, she burns up 343 US gallons of diesel per hour. So if you bought your diesel at the bulk rate of around $1/gallon, each hour of operation would cost $343. If you're going to cruise at that speed for a day, we're talking about $8,232 a day. Charter cost is $90,000 per week on season.
If you look at the picture on the link, you will note that the Octopussy is not level; it's actually moving over the surface of the water. This means a less comfortable ride, and it also means everything you own is pretty much continuously at an angle. Slower yachts glide through the water at lower speeds and are generally more comfortable.
I know someone who chartered his 120' yacht on an informal basis for $45,000 per week with all expenses included. If my memory serves, his yacht could go about 15 knots, or about the same as the submarine. That should give you an idea of how much speed costs, and why truly fast yachts are relatively rare.
You have to have - literally! - money to burn to run one of those things.
D