Do you consider yourself a water baby? Well then, Innespace Dolphin is sure to take your breath away. It’s a submarine in shape of dolphin!! Being maneuverable and very fast, this one seater dolphin can be called F-16 of underwater. Unlike typical submarines that sink below Innespace Dolphin uses its forward momentum glide beneath the water surface. With actions such as leaping out of water, barrel rolls and complete mid-air rolls you can truly enjoy unparallel level of dolphin experience, though currently the dive are limited to a few feet beneath the surface. The dolphin is powered by a 110 horsepower Yamaha Waverunner engine and can reach maximum speed of 30mph on surface and 20 mph when submerged. At present the beauty is available for demonstrations only BUT it will soon be available to lease by production companies. Another good news is that, Innespace is working on a two seater version, due for release next year.
So hold your fins and wait for the Dolphin.
Via – Luxurylaunches
2 responses to “Innespace Dolphin Personal Watercraft”
The Innespace Productions “Sea Breacher” Time magazine’s best inventions for 2006 ??? RIPOFF!!!
The lack of standards or the apparent lack of requirements that “reporters” actually do any investigation into the facts on their stories, has sunk to an all-time low.
In the world of search engines, all these so-called “reporters” do is to ‘google’ a term and copy what has been written before, never bothering to verify the validity of the article that they are plagiarizing. In the case of an article on time.com, a reporter, Mark Richards did a story on the “Best Inventions 2006”, in it he listed the Innespace “Sea Breacher” and listed the Inventors as Rob Innes and Dan Piazza, who had no involvement in the “invention” of the Bionic Dolphin™
Rob and Dan were students of the inventor, Thomas Rowe. They did no “inventing” or “innovating”, they merely took the design of Tom’s multi-seat vehicle, created in 1989 and began to copy it. While the story does acknowledge that the craft was “modeled” after the NolandWon, Tom’s first prototype, it incorrectly lists the pair as “Inventors”.
The resurgence of interest in articles concerning the Bionic Dolphin™ was sparked by the appearance of the two-seat “NolandToo” at the 2006 Wired Magazine’s NextFest in New York, during the last week in September. Wired Magazine terminated it’s relationship with Innespace in 2006, in favor of showcasing the true Inventor, Tom Rowe, and was an outstanding feature exhibition at “The most comprehensive Conference and Exhibition for Ocean Engineering, Science and Technology”, The Marine Technology Society’s OCEANS ’06 MTS/IEEE – at the Boston Hynes Convention Center, September 18-21, 2006.
While TIME and CNN are two entities residing under the same corporate umbrella, CNN has been able to print three correct stories (see below) about the origin and current state of the Bionic Dolphin™ / VASH technology, how and why would their sister organization, TIME print the inaccuracies that were included in their story?
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/10/26/bionic.dolphin/index.html
http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/29/technology/tech_future/index.htm?postversion=2006092919
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/12/17/spark.dolphin/
We regularly receive requests for high resolution pictures to go with a story that someone has written for a particular website or magazine, for which we have never heard of or given an interview to. How is it that they could have written an article without EVER having spoken to the inventor? The unfortunate answer is that they surf the web for things previously written, change them slightly and ignore the old standards of verifying the facts in the hopes that no one will notice and that they will get their story in on time.
Noland Corporation, TARCO Research and BionicDolphin.com are currently the ONLY legitimate, authorized contacts for the patented VASH, Bionic Dolphin™ (submersible dolphin, dolphin watercraft) technology. No licensing has been granted for entertainment, exhibitions, rides, racing, manufacturing or distribution at this point. Any claims to the contrary by Innespace productions or any other entity other than those mentioned above must be considered false and misleading.
Totally awesome inventions! Too bad some of us will be too old to see it all unfold.