Their business strategy will be releasing another rendered picture every six months to bring in new investors and inevitably after few years they will ethier go bankrupt or become another yacht company that will call itself "yacht market disruptor" or "the most innovative yacht company".
or they just the psyop to cover up a new class 9f military submarine being build, u cant hide a drydock from satelites but u can lie about what u building there
I'm sure it will be a submarine*
*maximum operational depth 2 meters from surface to cabin, and must have it's conning tower, bridge, and snorkel completely exposed at all time
Or, seeing as it's billionaire bullshit, it will be an ecological disaster. What do you want to offer for the odds that it will have shit navigation, and throws out pings every 3 seconds if submerged? Goodbye local wildlife, recreational diving, and all other activities taking place underwater.
Not really, but it will be good enough to get some affluenza fuck to drop $2bil on it
according to their official page they do have it specced out for 4 weeks of fully submerged operation with a max depth of 250 meters. However, literally none of this is real as it's just a concept model without real engineering or a prototype built, so the chances of it meeting such specs upon delivery of the final product are... whatever the fuck you feel like they are. Anyone can put whatever numbers they want on a concept model, feasibility be damned.
Meh, I've seen a few of these pop up and get articles written about them over the years. They usually disappear soon after. Probably just trying to scam money from Investors.
I read on a pop sci magazine years ago that "this is not the first time we have offered a design, but nobody was willing to buy one so it didn't get built"
Unless it's a nuke sub that lets your rich ass just disappear under the water I don't see the point. Cruising around under the surface with a snorkel up on diesel engines just seems like a straight downgrade. Why even go out of your bunker.
Unironically, yes, that probably is what it's for. I wouldn't be surprised if Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg are excavating under sea cliffs in Lฤnaสปi as we speak.
Because you're filthy rich and want to let all those pesky peasants know how much more valuable your rich life is, so much you can literally "survive underwater" while they suffer on the surface
Clarification: the bogus AI images they've got have windows in the viewing gallery. It's all bullshit though - it features the images from SAFE that are allso bullshit but keep popping up in various articles, notably* the MRI room.
Not a nautical engineer, but those seem to be comparable to known military craft. That's probably a decent envelope for a sub carrying ordinance and full crew. So, lots of free space for a pleasure craft.
Range: approx. 15.000 km
To pump these numbers, that's likely surface cruising at some optimal speed. We can safely say this isn't a nuclear sub, since that would be something to boast: your "range" is really "how much food do you have?" since that runs out first.
Submerged duration: approx. 4 weeks
This one's tricky. There are ways to generate O2 without electricity. But the rest of your environmental controls like heat, light, plumbing, cooking, etc. draw power. So we can assume a pretty beefy battery bank on this boat, but not excessively so, in order to stretch into that 4 week range. But that's nothing revolutionary for subs - Electric subs go back to 1888, with diesel/electric hybrids coming along after that.
Depth: approx. 250 m
Totally plausible and shallower than military craft. But maybe not with the viewing windows in the illustration.
Considering that the record for longest continous submersion of a diesel-electric sub is something like 2 weeks, i highly doubt that 4 weeks in a civilian vessel is achievable
You fill a barrel full of Ammonium-Nitrate fertilizer and put a 30-120 seconds delay fuze depending on expected depth. You start the fuze and drop it into the water. Voila Depth-Charge.
Pleasepleaseplease put bazillions of dollar-equivalents into building this thing and then get it stuck in ice that later cuts into the hull and sinks it ๐ I know the unfathomably wealthy will never do anything to make this world actually decent but they can at least let us have a decent laugh once in a while!
(I'm assuming the pollution left before it's towed out of the environment will be less than the pollution from actually running the thing) (Also "towed out of the environment" is a funny reference. May need to look up "front fell off." I am asleep.)