So if I can manage to save my next three years of salary, and not spend any money on Guinness rent, I will be really close to affording a C-Quester. Of course, it going to be a little more expensive because I am going to want all the options and acessories like:
- Dome Protection
- Lifting Points
- Halogen Lights on the Bow
- Aircon
- Racing Stripes
- Fenders
- Extra batteries (a must)
- Off Road Package (i.e. Heavy Duty)
- Epirb
- Sonar/Underwater Communication
- Extra high pressure air bottles/Oxygen Refill (a definite must)
To bad I don't know what all these are. Epirb? Doesn't matter, I am sure I NEED it and I couldn't stand for someone else having one nicer than mine. Unfortunately it only has a max. depth of 50m and only holds 100kg. Maybe I can get an option that holds an additional 8kg. I wonder if they give a deep-sea scientist discount?
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only 4 knots? what fun is that!?!?
who am I kidding...I'd love to have my own personal U-boat - it would really freak out the people at the beach and the marina!
No cd/mp3 player? You could not do that without belting out the Halleluja Chorus at the top of your voice!
I was going to take mine to a stereo place and have them install some thumping 15-inch wolfers mp3/cd player and several amps. I could jam out to some Dre or maybe the Life Aquatic Soundtrack
Hello Craig: Since Monterey Bay Aquarium released the shark, we have to seek sharks elsewhere. US sybmarines will sell you a luxury sub to tour the reef in comfort.
I think the Epirb's the satellite transmitter they'll need to find you when the batteries "run oot"
Oh yes, you need the epirb. We don't even let our people head off too far on land without one of those. (Unless we really want to lose them.)
For that kind of money , I expect sharks with fricking laser beams attached to their heads! Controllable through the epirb transmitter.
The 50m depth limit is a real dissapointment, I used to dive that regularly just on air albeit only for a fraction of the time given by the C-Quester, but ~150m mark would open up a new world for a lot of amateur explorers.
Don't they make you watch the EPIRB video when you go out for a cruise?? Its definitely a classic. The Res Techs get all giggly when they make the science party watch these things.
Now I'm mad. I've never seen this video. Is it an Aussie thing or a US thing?