Atreides Yacht Concept Makes its Own Pool

[Trueno07]

Maybe the kid who smashed the Ipad can smash one of these for us.

 

[LORD_ORION]

Awesome, so now you can get caught on the bottom and drown, or adccidentally retract the pool when people are in it. I suppose it is perfect if you're a Russian oil Czar and need to frequently and "accidentally" eliminate people.

 

[andybird123]

what this does is takes a feature (a pool) normally only available on a yacht costing 10's of millions, and puts it on a yacht that looking at the size of it should be available for closer to 1 million, putting it in easy reach of a lot more people than the 10+ million yacht

plus, it looks very very cool

 

[gm0n3y]

Good name, stupid concept though. But that's what concepts are for.

 

[flyhiloone]

Good name but does anyone else think that this thing should be called the cylon yaht instead of atreides. It sure looks alot like a cylon ship...

 

[grieve]

That boat is killer!

The pool looks far to shallow...

Why not have it extract from the bottom of the yacht as a flat panel (1-2foot thick) then when it is fully extended lower the bottom of the pool to say 5-8 foot. Also, there is no reason why this can not be almost solid, just leave enough room for the water to seep in, eliminating sharks.

 

[rmirwin2]

Only third stage spice navigators will qualify to own one...

 

[killerclick]

Yachts are fuel hogs. Short range, high maintenance, slow and expensive. I guess if you have to have a floating bordello, you could use one.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Hermn.... doesn't look very safe to me, or sound that safe.

 

[gm0n3y]

Are people seriously so afraid of sea life that they need to have a (mostly ineffective) barrier? You're basically just swimming in the ocean with a few bars around you. Unless this is rated to stop sharks its useless and even then unless you're chumming the waters sharks aren't really particularly dangerous.

 

[ssddx]

A few things I'd like to point out:

*From the photos It looks as if the frame and floor are fairly solid. If there was a handrail of sorts this would be a shark deterrent. note not shark-proof.

*As stated earlier, this was designed to put a yacht with a pool into the budget of lower tier of the rich & famous. 1M instead of 10M is enough to vastly improve sales.

*I'd think there would be a safety system in place to prevent accidental death and dismemberment from the unit closing. Even if there wasn't one in place the whole process would take several minutes.

 

[noodlegts]

[citation][nom]kingnoobe[/nom]Nood1-could be fun for some not so fun for others. Don't use when waves are really bad. Don't really see much of a problem on that one.2-That could be a problem but I'm sure those would have to be some pretty strong waves to break the pool. 3-Well a liner of some type could at least help, either way it's no worse then swimming without it. 4-Nobody can fix stupidity, and I doubt this thing closes really fast.[/citation]

Well most yachts with pools have the pool on the yacht itself so sharks aren't an issue, but if you're swimming somewhere out in the open then yeah I guess this "pool" is safer.

You'd be surprised how stupid some people can be! I imagine it would "know" when people are in the pool. Otherwise that could lead to some big law suits (unfortunately...)

 

[sublifer]

I could design it better.

 

[Guest]

I wonder how many times the designer hit the eject button on his CDROM drive before he said "Heeeeeeyyyyyy..."

 

[xaira]

if they could make the floor out of a strong potous material, and maybe give it retractable railings, shark infested water is definitely a possibility

 

[doc70]

[citation][nom]Kaiser_25[/nom]freikin tight, but my god how many hungry people could you feed with this things sure to be outrageous price tag?[/citation]
Prolly about as many as U could feed with the price of a tank.

 

[doc70]

to y'all bitching about it:
..U wish U had one...

I know I do.

 

[duk3]

I want one 😀
Great for cruising the waters of Caladan.

 

[Sinsation Station]

[citation][nom]distanted[/nom]I wonder how many times the designer hit the eject button on his CDROM drive before he said "Heeeeeeyyyyyy..."[/citation]


Thats hilarious.