Richard Branson has the money to do pretty much anything.
Apparently, some places in the Caribbean seem unaffected by the last couple of week’s worth of natural disasters. The people at Luxury Insider just notified me that it seems that Richard Branson isn’t happy with just chartering out his Necker Belle (the 105ft catamaran we told you about on New Year’s Eve). He’s aiming for something new. And it’s surely something else. The Necker Nymph, also named in part after the Caribbean island Necker that Branson bought over thirty years ago, is what the British industrialist calls an underwater plane. The prototype was made by Graham Hawkes, head cheese over at Hawkes Ocean Technologies. Marketing manager Karen Hawkes decribes the vessel as “an entirely new class of vehicle for us – think of a sleek convertible under water. It is different from our other submersibles because it was specifically designed to dive to scuba depths in tropical waters. It has the flexibility to glide peacefully over glorious reefs or bank adventurously in 360 degree turns.” – From James Spotting