Submarine Yacht

research submarine Ben Franklin

How many people recall the exploits of the research submarine 'Ben Franklin', and its drift north in the Gulf Stream

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin_%28PX-15%29

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/FRANKLIN/HTML/ben_franklin.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbsM3aWnfA8

http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/all-things-boats-and-boating/submarine-yacht-project-13844-8.html

 

Now you have me showing my age. I remember those as well as the Submarine Freight Transportation System (SFTS) and the submarine tanker.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...rg/sfts.htm&num=1&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1&vwsrc=0

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/19/business/submarine-tanker-plans.html

 

All the regulations are already in lace for large private subs... But to my knowledge no one has ever built a yacht sub yet. There are however a number of tourist subs around the world for short day excursions.

Frankly I think a large submarine yacht would be awsome, so long as someone else is paying the bills.

 

Anyone else catch item 13 in the inboard arrangement (about 2:12 in the video). Helpful for those pesky paparazzi helos.