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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I looked at this and thought "This looks like a load of expensive computer renderings, plus some stop motion footage of a single vessel under construction". I decided to ask mr google his opinion, and this article from Bloomberg from 2017 appeared: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-15/before-you-spend-2-billion-on-your-own-submarine-read-this" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-15/before-you-spend-2-billion-on-your-own-submarine-read-this</a></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">At that time, out of three manufacturers only one was under contract to build a civilian vessel, and it's the Ocean Submarine Neyk L3 which only costs 20 million euros. Now it's been four years since that article, but I suspect all the billion-dollar models are just that - models - and the existing civilian subs are only tens of millions of dollars, and probably outperformed by the models used by the oil industry (but a lot more comfortable - I never want to be a saturation diver).</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Apparently the $90million Phoenix 1000 is the largest civilian submarine actually built.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Yes, I'd like one. No, I don't think I'll ever be financially successful enough to afford one unless 3D printers capable of printing whole vehicles become economical.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Tom</div></div></body></html>