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
Let’s tear this apart.
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.
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.
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.
Totally plausible and shallower than military craft. But maybe not with the viewing windows in the illustration.
A moon pool or a regular one? Either way, that’s extravagant. But it looks like a moon pool wouldn’t work below 50m or so.
Pffft, bush league. The Titan has been submerged for checks watch 272 days with no end in sight.
Just a regular one, but I imagine they’ll add one if you ask for it.
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
Ah, thanks for the fact-check. I didn’t think to look that up - yeah, so they’re fudging the numbers just a tad.