Personal Luxury Subs

Now I reckon that you could have a fair bit of fun with one of these things, and also likely, scare the hell out of yourself on numerous occasions. An unusual entry on the gizmodo site today was an article about a range of personal submarines available for purchase and order from a company called U.S. Submarines. The largest available is known as the phoenix, it is 64 metres long, and looks something like a cruise ship but with more viewing windows up front. One of the cool features is the ability to have an attached mini sub capable of carrying up to 8 people if you so desired. The mini sub can get to a depth of 600 metres which would be well and truly deep enough for me. Even the slightly smaller one known as the Seattle comes in at 36 metres, it is capable of trans Atlantic voyages and also of being submerged for up to 20 days. Well, since I used to get scared just jumping in to the 2 metre deep end of the swimming pool, I don't know how I would fare regularly traveling in one of these things, but they would be cool to use for a while wouldn't they. A major benefit would be the ability to simply slip down and away from all of the rough weather and seas to the tranquility below. As long as you don't order one that looks a little like a sperm whale or something, you should be pretty alright. Though that has just brought me to think about weapons for the sucker. I reckon a few high voltage shocks should be enough for those giant squid and octopuses people keep making movies about.