{"id":106736,"date":"2020-05-07T19:03:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T02:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/triton-launches-spectacular-24-seat-deepview-tourist-submarine"},"modified":"2020-05-07T19:03:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T02:03:15","slug":"triton-launches-spectacular-24-seat-deepview-tourist-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/triton-launches-spectacular-24-seat-deepview-tourist-submarine","title":{"rendered":"Triton launches spectacular 24-seat DeepView tourist submarine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/triton-launches-spectacular-24-seat-deepview-tourist-submarine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Triton submarines is the biggest name in deep-sea exploration submersibles, having built the extraordinary <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/five-deeps-dsv-limiting-factor-mariana-trench\/59690\/\">DSV Limiting Factor<\/a>, a \u201cdeep-sea elevator\u201d capable of popping down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench several times a week for extended visits.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the company has launched an incredible-looking tourist sub that can take 24 passengers, a pilot and a co-pilot down to 100-meter (328-ft) depths in air-conditioned comfort, providing panoramic views of the aquatic world through colossal 5.5-inch-thick (140-mm) acrylic windows. Where other subs offer restricted views, this thing is very close to a giant transparent tube, like a glass walkway through an aquarium, tall enough to stand in.<\/p>\n<p>The DeepView 24 is the first of a range of DeepView tourist submarines that can be specified in different lengths to accommodate between 12 and 66 passengers. Additional sections can be added six seats at a time; with the 24-seat version already 15.4 m (50.5 ft) in length and weighing 121,250 lb (55,000 kg), a 66-seater would certainly be a sight to behold and a pain in the butt to pull a u-turn in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triton submarines is the biggest name in deep-sea exploration submersibles, having built the extraordinary DSV Limiting Factor, a \u201cdeep-sea elevator\u201d capable of popping down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench several times a week for extended visits. Now, the company has launched an incredible-looking tourist sub that can take 24 passengers, a pilot and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}