{"id":15721,"date":"2017-09-25T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15721"},"modified":"2017-09-25T08:37:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T12:37:26","slug":"forget-yachts-the-new-billionaire-playthings-are-submarines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/forget-yachts-the-new-billionaire-playthings-are-submarines\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget Yachts, The New Billionaire Playthings Are Submarines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092417_2357_ForgetYacht1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matt Gross wrote about submarines for the super-rich:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Luxury submarines \u2013 those that can travel independently and are able to regenerate power \u2013 start at $25 million.<\/li>\n<li>The most expensive is a $2.3 billion concept released by an Austrian design firm. It&#8217;s more submersible yacht than submarine, and includes a helipad, a swimming pool, and a dock for mini-boats.<\/li>\n<li>Owning a submarine is a little different than owning a yacht. There is the Pilot certification for one \u2013 which takes four months and involves training in an aviation style simulator.<\/li>\n<li>The submarines can go pretty much anywhere. The legal framework around traveling under the ocean is, well, murky.<\/li>\n<li>Countries like Greece are concerned that the rich will use the submarines to find and loot ancient ship ruins that could have historical significance.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to bragging rights, the mega-rich may like submarines because they finally give them a surefire way to avoid the paparazzi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-09-15\/before-you-spend-2-billion-on-your-own-submarine-read-this\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Gross wrote about submarines for the super-rich: Luxury submarines \u2013 those that can travel independently and are able to regenerate power \u2013 start at $25 million. The most expensive is a $2.3 billion concept released by an Austrian design firm. It&#8217;s more submersible yacht than submarine, and includes a helipad, a swimming pool, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092417_2357_ForgetYacht1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15725,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15721\/revisions\/15725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}