All dolphins have ever done is muck about in the water having a good time. Now you can too.
The Seabreacher may seem like the kind of futuristic tech usually reserved for Bond villains and billionaires, but it’s actually been around for nearly twenty years. Its inventors, Rob Innes and Dan Piazza, began work on the first dolphin-shaped craft back in 1999, using their extensive experience designing and building performance machines to create a truly unique, and incredibly cool, watercraft.
While Rob describes that first prototype as “a deathtrap” things have clearly come a long way since. Available in three specifications, the Seabreacher X, Y and Z are each capable of up to 60mph thanks to a supercharged 1.5-litre engine putting out 260hp – this in a vehicle which weighs just 660kg.
That’s before you add in either of the two passengers it can carry, of course, but as today’s Time for Tea demonstrates, the extra weight hardly holds it back. Thanks to a retractable snorkel, vectored jet nozzles and high performance wings and elevators, the shark-cum-jet fighter is capable of some remarkable ‘aquabatics’.
At around $90,000 (£70,000) per bespoke build, the Seabreacher is hardly cheap, but it’s nowhere near as expensive as you might expect such an incredible toy to be. Besides, it looks like it’d be worth every penny to us!
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