Wanna buy a sub?

[Enigma]

http://www.ussubs.com/submarines/index.php3 :huh:

[Bort]

This was posted a while back BTW. But still, interesting. Would be nice to have one...It'll only cost me, let's see: $20 million. Let me get out my wallet...



:-j

[TLAM Strike]

http://www.b-americanboats.com/whiskeyFAQ.html :rock:

[Ducimus]

I want one of these!

http://www.ussubs.com/submarines/seattle_1000.php3

[Deathblow]

There are very few waters clear enough to actually enjoy that... maybe in the most exclusively crystal waters in the world perhaps.

[Polak]

Let's start a fund raising! :D
We can give the Onkel a nice sub for the subsim anniversary. :yep:

[Bort]

Let's start a fund raising! :D
We can give the Onkel a nice sub for the subsim anniversary. :yep:

Which anniversary, 100th? :-j

[Polak]

I guess so :P , I think that it will be hard to even get 1/1000000 of the money needed for a sub during the upcoming anniversary. :-j

[TLAM Strike]

Let's start a fund raising! :D
We can give the Onkel a nice sub for the subsim anniversary. :yep: We could just get the old 244 boat seaworthy again. ;)

Get a couple of live torpedoes and a bunch of mines and carve out a path of destruction as privateers!

[Ducimus]

There are very few waters clear enough to actually enjoy that... maybe in the most exclusively crystal waters in the world perhaps.

I wasnt lookin at all the windows, i was looking at the specs!

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

Surface Range 3000 nautical miles

Submerged Endurance
5 hours at 8 knots
30 hours at 5 knots
80 hours at 2.5 knot

Maximum Surface Speed 16.0 knots
Cruising Surface Speed 14.0 knots
Max. Submerged Speed 8.0 knots

Operating Depth 305 meters

Its like a uboat! :88)

[Onkel Neal]

I really wonder, have any of these things been built, and sold? And to whom? You know, playing around with a negative buoyancy vessel can get you killed in a hurry. I wonder if there are any of these things being used, and who pilots them? :hmm:

[DeepSix]

http://www.ussubs.com/submarines/phoenix_1000.php3

This is the one for me. Looks like it's about the size of a Type IX, capable of trans-Atlantic crossings, and will dive to 305m (that's about 1000 feet)! :hmm: Now that's what to get on Father's Day for the dad who has everything! ("Gee, son, a luxury u-boat... you really shouldn't have....")

[Edit: It's like something out of James Bond.... "A small automobile could be kept in the aft section if desired...." :|\ ]

[Onkel Neal]

http://www.alshindagah.com/marapr2003/luxury.html

[STEED]

Sorry to say my money has gone on more and more tax. :cry:

[DeepSix]

http://www.alshindagah.com/marapr2003/luxury.html

Hehe - all the customers are wealthy and insist on confidentiality. LOL no kidding. Clearly the pricetag limits customers to the likes of:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v676/PocketPlane/Evil_sm.jpg

Still, I'll bet even *I* could pick up chics with one.

[GreyOctober]

LOL i suppose some were delivered to Iran.. you know..."for leasure purposes only".

and, ahem:

“It was really sort of romantic,” he recalled in an interview with New Scientist magazine. “I thought: You know what? People ought to have the chance to own a sub that would do this sort of thing, where you could go down and spend the night on the bottom.”

Why you little SOB, you prolly mean "EXTREMELLY RICH people"!!

[Excalibur Bane]

Oh, yes. A submarine would be great. I could slink around the local lake and torpedo yachts and fisherman. Yes, sir. The fun just never ends. :up:

[Ducimus]

I really wonder, have any of these things been built, and sold? And to whom? You know, playing around with a negative buoyancy vessel can get you killed in a hurry. I wonder if there are any of these things being used, and who pilots them? :hmm:

Yeah no kidding. If you don't know what your doing, your gonna be in your own modern recreation of an iron coffin, only with a stylish interior.

[VipertheSniper]

....only with a stylish interior

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[StdDev]

I really wonder, have any of these things been built, and sold? And to whom? You know, playing around with a negative buoyancy vessel can get you killed in a hurry. I wonder if there are any of these things being used, and who pilots them? :hmm:

Geeez Neal..
Quit bein such a grandma! :D
What woulda happened if Horace Lawson Hunley had heeded your advice?
.. and look where he ended up!.. oh wait.... :-j

[Onkel Neal]

Heh heh, I just saw this while combing your posts for material for the book. Hahah, good one, Rick :lol:

[nightdagger]

I really wonder, have any of these things been built, and sold? And to whom? You know, playing around with a negative buoyancy vessel can get you killed in a hurry. I wonder if there are any of these things being used, and who pilots them? :hmm:
Yeah, just don't let Bernard get his hands on it.

Just give me a type XXI with some homing torpedoes and an aftermarket deck gun and I'll pwn one of these.