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Civilian Luxury Yacht Submarines?

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July 11, 2007: Over the last decade, luxury boat builders have begun building submarine yachts. Submarine construction technology has come a long way in the past century, and it's possible to build these boats at an affordable ($15-200 million) cost. They are safe, and there are about a hundred of them out there. A few companies have gained a lot of experience building subs for non-military underwater operations (academic research, oil exploration), which has created a cadre of information and technicians who can build these recreational subs. One of the largest civilian submarine yards is in Dubai, where 18 have been built so far, and over two dozen are under construction or on order. Another large operation is U.S. Submarines, in Seattle, a company that has built most of the scientific communities subs over the last two decades. These submersible pleasure craft look like streamlined yachts while on the surface. The upper deck, including the bridge, is outside the pressure hull. When submerging, everyone goes below, and the upper deck get flooded. If you get close to one of these yachts, it becomes obvious that they are built to dive. Military subs are still not used to encountering this civilian traffic underwater. The military boats have the right of way, but military boats are now warned to exercise extra care when approaching coastal areas used by civilian subs.

Owners of these luxury subs tend to be secretive, and the builders have agreed to some government oversight, especially to make sure militarized subs, that can carry torpedoes or mines, are not built. But there is no law against anyone owning one of these submarines, and it's feared that it's only a matter of time before drug dealers, gun runners, or even terrorists, get their hands on some of them. Some police officials believe this has already happened, but no one is saying much,

The civilian subs don't dive as deep as military subs, and are not built for combat. They have staterooms and large windows. But they do have carrying capacity, and that could be put to criminal uses. Already, Colombian gangs have been caught trying to build subs, using Russian advisors. And at least one submersible (a sub that travels just below the surface) was caught carrying cocaine.
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they should just require them to run a sonar transponder, continuously. it could even be a low Hz so that it didn't bug the people onboard
that way the Navy subs can see them and they can be tracked easily
 
Didn't Cheney or someone just buy a $1,500,000 submarine? Or was it $15,000,000? It was a Yellow Submarine, seriously. 35
 
Originally posted by: Safeway
Didn't Cheney or someone just buy a $1,500,000 submarine? Or was it $15,000,000? It was a Yellow Submarine, seriously. 35
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It was Paul Allen. Cheney certainly doesn't have that much of a sense of humor, and I can't imagine he's a Beatles fan.
 
Now that is frickin' cool. I definitely know what's now on the top of my shopping list if I ever win the lottery. I'd be happy with the Discovery 1000.

I also like their copyright statement: "Copyright 2004 U.S. Submarines Inc., All rights reserved. All wrongs revenged!"
 
Originally posted by: Raduque
Now that is frickin' cool. I definitely know what's now on the top of my shopping list if I ever win the lottery. I'd be happy with the Discovery 1000.

I also like their copyright statement: "Copyright 2004 U.S. Submarines Inc., All rights reserved. All wrongs revenged!"
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This website has made it around the Internets several times, so I am sure people were stealing their images and hosting them on different servers. That is theft! :sun:137
 
Civilian Luxury Yacht Submarines?
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It's spelled Raymond Luxury-Yacht, but it's pronounced "Throatwobbler Mangrove."

(I wonder if anyone will recognize the source of that line...)
 
If I owned one of these, I'd name myself captain and start quoting lines from submarine movies:
"Dive! Dive! Dive!"
"Chief of the Boat, make your depth one-five-zero feet. Five degree down bubble!"
 
Originally posted by: scott

It'll be the Phoenix 1000 for me!
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i am not greedy, i'll take the used diesel sub

http://www.ussubs.com/submarines/used.php3

Civil diesel electric submarines are very rare. There are generally no vessels in this category available on the market. However we own a remarkable small diesel electric submarine, the S-101, which is currently for sale at $640,000 and is completely dive ready. It is located in Seattle and is available to qualified potential buyers for a trial dive. A brochure and specifications for S-101 are available. Further information can be obtained by calling Ellis Adams in Seattle on 206-422-2899.
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http://www.ussubs.com/submarines/101.pdf
 
Originally posted by: George P Burdell
If I owned one of these, I'd name myself captain and start quoting lines from submarine movies:
"Dive! Dive! Dive!"
"Chief of the Boat, make your depth one-five-zero feet. Five degree down bubble!"
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Lt., you are almost out of uniform.
 
But there is no law against anyone owning one of these submarines, and it's feared that it's only a matter of time before drug dealers, gun runners, or even terrorists, get their hands on some of them. Some police officials believe this has already happened, but no one is saying much,
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LOL @ "Only a matter of time" :laugh:

Anyone who doesn't believe that the first dozen off the line went to drug dealers, gun runners and other criminals raise your hand. Good, now smack yourself across the face.

Originally posted by: FoBoT
they should just require them to run a sonar transponder, continuously. it could even be a low Hz so that it didn't bug the people onboard
that way the Navy subs can see them and they can be tracked easily
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Well, first thing the new owner would do is disable that thing. And the greenies would never allow it anyway. Active sonar messes with whales and dolphins.
 
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