Seabus, a tourist submersible   The French COMEX Marine Parks developed a unique tourist submersible design-an acrylic transparent hull vessel. It provides panoramic vision for 45- 50 passengers.   The Seabus, renamed Deepstar in 1994, can be arranged to operate in 3 modes: "swimming" on the sea-surface with the transparent hull submerged, "tethered"-diving while connected by wires to an above head support vessel, and on underwater rail-tracks. Technical specifications, Seabus: Displacement (tons): 88.5 Weight in air (lb/kg): 190,520/86,420 Payload in air (kg): un known Dimensions (L*W*H feet/meter): 62`0*13`0*18`0/19.0*4.0*5.6 Propulsion: six fixed thrusters total 7.5kW, 2*vertical, 2*axial, 2*transverse, all lead battery operated Speed (srf/sub knots): 3.0/1.0 cruise,3.0 max Range (sub n/miles@knots): 16 hours at 1.5 knots Diving depth, max (feet/meter): 320/100 Operating depth (feet/meter): 260/80 Complement: 2 crew members + 45 passengers Construction: side viewports cylinders, bow and stern viewports 2.20m all transparent acrylic.   Back to History Index   Image Country Year Description Monaco 1992 Seabus,turist submersible Monaco 1992 Seabus,turist submersible Cayman Is. 1993 Tourist submersible Barbados 1998 Atlantis - Tourist submarine