Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “This Jet Shark Can ‘Fly’ Underwater”.
What looks like a James Bond getaway vehicle and can fly underwater Feast your eyes on the jet shark? It’S still in the Prototype phase for now, but we spoke to its founder and Creator to learn more about how it works, how much it’ll cost and when and where you might get a chance to try one wings and forward propulsion to fly underwater. If the jet shark’s underwater cruising capabilities, look familiar, you might have seen its creators previous work within a space Seabreacher a company he co-founded back in 1997.. You know they look like dolphins, sharks, killer whales, sailfish, basically we’ll build whatever a customer wants. We’Ve delivered about 170 of those throughout the world, they’re all custom built to order Rob, took the lessons, he’d learned and customer feedback he’d received with the Seabreacher and applied it to the development of his next project, the jet shark right. Now it’s a four-seater boat.
Later, models go up to about six seater; basically, you can launch and retrieve it just like any regular boat. One of the more user-friendly changes from the Seabreacher involves the vehicle’s controls. The seabreach is a super fun to drive, but it’s quite a difficult boat to drive. It’S a very visceral experience.
You know you are basically controlling a lot of different mechanisms because it pitches rolls and yours more like an aircraft than a boat, because the jet shark’s a lot bigger. It’S a lot harder to manipulate those controls, especially in water, you’ll, sort of have a joystick kind of like in a in a computer game simulator and that will then go through a computer processor and then power the control systems. There’S two sets of controls up front. So that, as new pilots learn the ropes they can control different parts of the watercraft. The vessel is also much larger than its predecessor, it’s about three times the volume of the of the sea breed chair. So getting that big Point basil underwater required a lot more complex systems to to get it sorted out. So yeah there’s no parts in common between my original Seabreacher and the new jet shark.
If the Seabreacher was a race car, then the jet shark sort of like a GT card. The Prototype has a top speed of 45 miles per hour, but Rob tells me that the production models will reach speeds of up to 50 or 60 miles per hour, depending on the engine to keep passengers safe. It also has sensors, like radar and lidar, to keep tabs on any obstacles that may be nearby price, wise, we’re trying to keep the price to about two hundred thousand dollars as the starting point.
Once you start getting into the carbon fiber Hull and the supercharged engine, and some of the the bells and whistles will probably get closer to three hundred thousand the market. Rob’S envisioning for the jet shark mainly involves recreational use in tourist destinations. Crystal clear water you’ll have a pilot that will take passengers for for rides on the surface and then dip underwater Jump, free sort of like an underwater roller coaster.
Ride, there’s still some regulatory hurdles and fundraising that needs to happen to get the jet shark to the commercial phase. It is registered as an inboard power boat, the geoshock you can basically own just like a regular boat. You don’t need any special licensing for it. So we’d like to see the commercial operations start doing beta testing end of this year early next year and then would like to start delivering. You know the first batch of boats end of 2024.. Would you like to ride in a jet shark? Let us know down in the comments, as always thanks so much for watching.
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