These two deep-sea submersibles are the culmination of Huaxing Group and Honghu Shipyard and Ship Design and Research Institute, and Huaxing Group spent almost $30 million to basically break through the core technologies needed for submersibles.

The Ship Design and Research Institute had never designed such a submersible before, but Yang Jie himself only provided sketches and put forward his own specific design requirements, and the design institute quickly came up with a set of design plans on this basis.

Now the ship design and research institute is not afraid of Yang Jie's various requirements, because the more Yang Jie's requirements, the more funds will be given, and there are many design institutes under the shipbuilding industry group company, everyone used to apply for funds from the state, and there was no money to develop some cutting-edge scientific and technological equipment in the past, and now the boss of Huaxing Group wants to tinker with some cutting-edge scientific and technological equipment, and the academicians and experts of these design institutes are very happy.

In Yang Jie's concept, the most important thing is to build such a platform for deep-sea submersibles, with such a platform, submersibles with other functions can be derived from this platform.

Such submersibles are not only used to salvage rocket wreckage or something, but also used for submarine topography mapping and various geological surveys, archaeological and other marine scientific investigations, and can also be used for submarine rescue missions.

The sea has always been called the last frontier of mankind, because it is so unfathomable, hiding so many secrets that humans cannot touch, but with deep-sea submersibles, the secrets of the deep sea will gradually reveal themselves.

However, Yang Jie's goal is to use this equipment to establish a high-definition marine digital map database, and then provide various services to many enterprises and companies to make profits, and build more models of submersibles on this basis, especially the civilian submersible market.

It's not uncommon for the world's wealthy to own the ultimate sports car, private jet and private yacht, but not many of the world's richest people own a new toy like a private submarine.

However, in the past, due to the lack of advanced technology, the development and manufacture of private submarines required huge funds and resources from the government or the military, and the basic cost was $3 million, but Yang Jie's goal was to build a private submarine of about $300,000.

Of course, such a submersible cannot enter the deep sea, and can only carry out activities on the seabed at a depth of hundreds of meters, and the most important thing is to have a large enough cockpit and ultra-wide field of view to meet the requirements of consumers to observe and explore the underwater world, so the entire cockpit must be designed to be transparent, and there must be professional photographic equipment to shoot and record.

Private submarines like this can reach speeds of up to 15 knots underwater, close to 30 kilometers per hour, which is enough for these rich people to chase whales, sharks, giant squid, and even dolphins in submersibles.

Another is the depth of the submersible, if it exceeds the depth of 500 meters, even if the submersible can still descend, but these rich people will be afraid.

In fact, the size of the world's yacht market now exceeds more than 30 billion US dollars every year, and tens of thousands of yachts are sold to these rich people every year, most of which are small yachts worth tens of thousands of US dollars.

Yang Jie also wants to create a very fun toy with the rich people all over the world, and at the same time, these submersibles can also be used in other professional fields, such as deep-sea mining, oil rig maintenance, submarine fiber optic cable laying and maintenance, and even underwater disasters, etc., which are still very "money-seeking", the key is to reduce the cost, which has the possibility of large-scale commercial use.

Now deep-sea submersibles are basically tens of millions of dollars, and small ones are probably millions of dollars, these small and medium-sized submersibles are not only sold to wealthy people, but also leased to film companies or marine research units, but the price is not cheap, the daily rent is more than 10,000 US dollars, and most companies cannot afford it.

Yang Jie had also designed several sketches of submersibles with transparent spherical cockpits, and submitted them to the Ship Design and Research Institute for specific design.

Most private submarine manufacturers use military thinking to build private submarines, designed to be lean and flexible, but the cockpit is designed to be cramped, inconvenient for passengers to enter and exit, and the cockpit passengers cannot look to the bottom of the sea.

Yang Jie shook his head frequently after seeing the design plans of these companies in private submarines, and couldn't help but draw several design sketches of submersibles by himself, and at the same time handed them over to the Ship Design and Research Institute to start specific design, and now several submersibles of different sizes and models have been designed for simulation testing in the laboratory, and the test has been completed.

Because Honghu Shipyard has been building all kinds of submarines for decades and has incomparably rich experience in this area, Yang Jie also handed over this production task to Honghu Shipyard to complete, and now Honghu Shipyard is also starting construction.

Yang Jie also hopes that these submersibles can be completed in the first half of this year and officially unveiled at the Moroccan Boat Show.

The annual Monaco Yacht Show is not only a competition stage for super luxury yachts, but also wants private submarines to officially join the competition.

Of course, the Miami Yacht Show company will show its face in a little more than a month.

Now that we have entered January of '04, less than a month before the Miami Boat Show in February, the company will only show some models and drawings this time.

The wealthy Americans are the largest in the world, basically accounting for 60% of the world's yacht market, while the European market occupies nearly 40% of the market share.

Prior to this, Huaxing Group Company had asked a professional market research company to conduct a detailed investigation of the yacht market, which also gave Yang Jie a bottom in his heart.

Yang Jie's goal is to make the market size of this private submersible more than one billion dollars within five years, and then he can rely on this business to make Honghu Shipyard live well.

Last year, the annual revenue of Honghu Shipyard was less than 3 billion yuan, and the profit was more than 300 million yuan, and the number of orders for civil ships was relatively small.

For example, the cost of the salvage ship ordered by Huaxia Satellite Communications Company has reached almost seven or eight billion, which is already the largest order.

Honghu City has received orders for dredgers and tugboats from civilian ships, or the production of products such as steel box girders for some cross-river bridges, and the added value of the products is not high.

The production of high-tech weapons and equipment such as Yuan-class submarines is relatively profitable, but now there are few orders, and the Honghu City Shipyard does not make much money.

If the production of private submersibles is basically non-existent, there is more freedom in pricing, and Yang Jie will naturally leave enough profit space for Honghu City.

When Yang Jie proposed the business concept of private submersibles to Honghu Shipyard, Honghu Shipyard also expressed its full support, and also regarded the business of building private submersibles as the company's next major economic growth point.

Through more than a year of research and development, Huaxing Group Co., Ltd., the Naval University of Engineering and the Shipbuilding Industry Group have matured in the localization technology of marine equipment such as buoyancy materials, deep-water motors, watertight connectors, high-pressure seawater pumps, manipulators, underwater lights and cameras.

Prior to this, there was a blank in China in terms of deep-sea equipment, and Huaxing Group Company also took out hundreds of millions of R&D funds for joint development, and all technical departments took out their respective technologies, and finally designed equipment that satisfied Yang Jie.

Yang Jie has no lofty goal in using money to develop these courses, how to make money is the most important thing, as for what the domestic military and government use this platform to do, he has no right to ask, and he has no idea of competing with foreign countries in deep-sea equipment.

In fact, Yang Jie also thought about letting Rauma Rebola's marine company, a subsidiary of the Finnish company, design and build two submersibles, which would be faster, but he thought about it and gave up, he still wanted to drive the formation of an industrial chain in China through an engineering project, maybe the speed was slower, but after completing such an engineering project, he had experience from design to production and construction and technology, and he could quickly improve and upgrade the technology on this basis in the future.

But if you don't do it, then you will never make progress.