SUBLIME

SubSea Craft’s $11 million, 40-ft. carbon fibre Victa submersible boat fulfills all our secret agent fantasies...

- NICOL AS STECHER

Any high-net-worth individual can buy a speedboat to cruise on tropical waters, that’s just pedestrian. So how do you truly make a statement — how does one set themselves apart from these commoners? Simply procure a vessel that can skim both on and underwater.

That’s the unique selling point of SubSea Craft’s visionary hybrid watercraft, the Victa. Titled a Diver Delivery Unit (DDU), the Havant, England company’s carbon-fiber vessel uses a modified 725 hp plus Seatek diesel engine to slice over water at speeds up to 40 knots, offering all the high-velocity joys of a speedboat.

The categorical difference with the Victa being that if you want to submerge — you know, to dive across a coral reef, peruse an octopus’s garden, or maybe release divers for a secret mission to overtake Richard Branson’s supermodel-filled Necker Island — you can.