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The next step up would be a personal minisub like this one. Although you're looking at $700,000. Quite a jump in cost, just to keep the rest of your body dry. The scooter's a little odd looking but it accomplishes the same thing for a little more than 1% of the cost.

It's possible that once enough people lived in subsea colonies, economies of scale would bring the price of personal minisubs down to sane levels, as a minisub doesn't contain any substance or technology that necessitates the high price; the cost is due mainly to the limited market.

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They're for sale, purportedly. In several sizes/pricepoints. But come to think of it you're right, I've never seen one in photographs. Have they not sold any?

And until space is truly open to the common person, the deep blue will be their new frontier, a place anyone can explore for the price of a high end sports car.

Tourist subs have existed for twenty years. Personal subs have hit the market since then and can be had for the price of a supercar. Personal spaceships don't exist, and space tourism is just now getting started.

A personal submarine, also using an acrylic bubble canopy.

When I visited Hawaii a few years ago I went for a mini sub tour. Shit was pretty cash.