The DeepFlight Dragon sports a raised back spoiler, aerodynamic design, propellers, and two enclosed cockpits. It’s small, sleek, and off-white, looking more like a toy fighter jet than a $1.5 million two-person submarine. DeepFlight’s director of tourism, James Doyle, explained earlier this week in Fort Lauderdale, “It’s a toy for the 1 percent of the 1 percent.”
According to a brochure, the DeepFlight Dragon’s hoverboard technology was designed “on the principles of aviation” and “allows you to fly underwater and explore the world’s oceans in three dimensions.” The watercraft can spin, do barrel rolls, and shoot its nose straight out of the water. It’s like flying underwater.
DeepFlight is a California-based company that sells personal submarines all over the world. The Dragon was designed by Graham Hawkes, a marine engineer who has designed more than half of the world’s manned submarines. His watercraft are mostlyused by the U.S. military and government to locate human remains in lakes, drugs smuggled under ships, and submerged mines. In 1981, Hawkes even played the James Bond villain in For Your Eyes Only. (He mans one of his own submersibles in the movie.)
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