Buy Your Own Personal Submersible

Dutch company U-Boat Worx have released perhaps the ultimate water sports accessory in the form of a mini personal submersible – available in single and duel passenger variants – which will dive to a depth of fifty meters, travel at a maximum speed of 4 knots for up to 36 hours (dependent on battery life) and that can even be fitted with a wide range of accessories, including, would you believe, a sonar device.

Technically, according to U-Boat Worx, you will not need any special license to use their submersibles however they do make it clear that you should have a UBW – an underwater pilot’s license – in order to operate these vehicles and, needless to say, this alone will not be cheap.

I have not been able to establish the prices for either of the variants on offer, though I suspect that if you have to ask you probably can’t afford them.

Shame, as I quite fancied one for the bath tub.

Available in 1 and 2 man models

And, if you happen to live around Hideaway Island near Port Vila, Vinuatu, and you purchase one of these personal submersibles you may like to pay the world’s only underwater post office a visit, where the letters you deliver will be sent on with a special stamp to their destination. That said, how on earth you’ll manage to pass them your post whilst sealed in your sub without getting very wet is quite another issue.

You can read more about these personal submersibles via this link or visit the world’s only underwater post office site here.