[naturalman1975]

This is all happening quite near where I live - and it's tragic to see Otama rusting away out there. The Oberons did sterling work for Australia in the latter days of the cold war, and its aftermath, much of which is still not publically known.

Hastings would be a great place for this sub to be displayed - it's very near HMAS Cerberus, where many Australian sailors began their naval careers.

What is perplexing about all this is that Otama is floating just off the coast of Hastings where they want to put it, and they can't get it ashore.

They managed to get most of one of her sisters to Holbrook in New South Wales - and that's hundreds of miles inland.

[MahatmaGandu]

No doubt China will buy it through intermediaries.

[blam]

Otama Rusting Away

[Poison Pill]

4.9 million? I’ll give’m a penny a pound.

[I see my hands]

I'm kept sheltered, for my own good they tell me, so that must be why I was unaware of the world of luxury personal submarine ownership until about a year ago. I had no idea.

I read somewhere, but forget the stats, that they have some insane perfect safety record.

Check out this site.

[Mr. Jazzy]

I think that the Messiah should buy it with his leftover campaign funds.

I mean he only has to change one letter in the name of the boat to make it his!

[Professional Engineer]

Say, the Foxhole could use a navy.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I am hoping that instead of decommissioning one of the Los Angeles class submarines, that it is converted into an undersea scientific platform. It would be as prestigious as the International Space Station, and could perform survey missions impossible for surface craft.

Among its unique abilities would be to deploy bathyspheres much deeper than is currently possible, entomb high grade nuclear waste in a mountain of underwater cement, and perhaps survey enormous undersea ore deposits.

[Oztrich Boy]

They managed to get most of one of her sisters to Holbrook in New South Wales - and that's hundreds of miles inland.

All Holbrook has is the deck casing and conning tower. That can be shipped dismantled. The pressure hull and its contents got left behind. (except a short bit of the stern