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Private Submarines

September 28, 2013 2 Comments

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At the Monaco Yacht Show there are 4 companies hawking luxury personal submarines.viz. Hawkes Ocean Technologies,U-Boat Worx, Triton Submarines LLC and Seamagine Hydrospace Corporation.

The submersibles on offer cost from around $1.5 million to $4.2 million depending on their size and underwater range.

U-Boat’s five models equipped with bubble-shaped acrylic windows can hold between two and five people and sink to between 100 meters and 1,000 meters underwater.Rival Triton, which is based at Vero Beach in Florida, is pushing the depth limit to 1,650 meters for similar battery powered technology. Hawkes’s underwater flying machines differ from the others. While his resemble soft-edged airplanes with bubble-shaped cockpits, the others are more like UFOs.

Since storing an 18,000-pound submarine elegantly on a designer yacht is a challenge. Sub owners to have get bespoke boats conceived with subs in mind or, alternatively, invest in a “shadow” vessel i.e a smaller speedboat to accompany the yacht. Read more of this post

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Make Your Own Traditions

August 21, 2013 3 Comments

“I stand at the end of no tradition. I may,perhaps stand at the beginning of one.” – Richard Branson

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Living The Branson Way

August 15, 2013 1 Comment

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Naresh Goyal

May 6, 2013 Leave a comment

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Rarely do we come across pieces on entrepreneurs, written by their peers.The following is one of them,written by Captain Gopinath .Do read it and enjoy!

My personal opinion is that the good Capt.is somewhat stinting in his praise.But then perhaps I am biased, being a shareholder of both airlines and having had to live with the consequences of their decisions.Anyways, little known travel agent is not how his contemporaries in the Mumbai airport during his early days recall him.A knowledgeable,helpful and dependable person is the feeling I get from hearing their stories.There’s more about his early life after the piece by Capt. Gopinath. Read more of this post

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Keep Your Eyes Open

January 18, 2013 2 Comments

wealthymatters.com Here’s an interesting anecdote:

Richard Branson, the boss of Virgin Airlines look a bunch of journalists to LA for his inaugural flight to that city.After a pleasant few days in a top hotel, the journos were all in the lobby waiting for a limo to take them back to the airport.

One young woman went up to Branson and asked him the following question:

“Richard, I don’t want to be a hack all my life, what is the secret to making money?” Read more of this post