I’m On A Shark!
08.20.10
Rob Innes and Dan Piazza built their first submersible personal watercraft twelve years ago, and now run a company called Innespace, which sells the Seabreacher seen above. The two-seater looks like a shark (it’s even similar in size) and can jump up to 12 feet out of the water.
They’re still working on a model that can also do barrel rolls. DailyMail reports it takes a team of seven people three months to build one of these, and they’ve sold nine so far with another 31 on order. Here are some other numbers: eight, fourteen, eleventy, twenty-nine, and:
A 260 horsepower engine pushes the Seabreacher X through the water at 50 miles per hour on the surface and 25 mph when it’s diving. That means it has enough speed that it can jump a whopping 12 feet into the air when it gets going. Those aren’t the only big numbers here: they cost upwards of $100,000. [DVICE]
There’s video of it being awesome below (with completely appropriate music). Also, I made this:

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[More pics at Toxel.]

this has got me in tears of joy im so happy to something like this i really want one now
I am in happiness too to something like this
No pics of it jumping over Fonzarelli???
It’s cool I guess. But it’s 2010, and I want my personal jet pack, godddamnit.
Boo, why won’t it let me digg this? Stupid digg.
*Feverishly draws up plans for submersible octopus craft. Gets distracted and draws Japanese schoolgirls getting attacked by it*
This nostalgically reminds me of Tintin!
One thousand high-fives to wackyroo for the Tintin connection.