Commissioned by Christopher and Amber-Marie Bently
Lead Artist: Sean Orlando
Operations/ Electrical:David Shulman
Design Engineer: Greg Jones
The Nautilus project is an artistic experiment and collaboration between the Bentlys, Sean Orlando and Five Ton Crane. It is a land-based submarine weighing in at 9000 pounds (dry) with a top speed of 13 mph. The base vehicle is a 2005 Eagle TT8 diesel AWD airport tow tractor, designed to tow 90,000 lbs airplanes. 25′ long, 100″ wide, 11′6″ tall
The Nautilus comes fully equipped with:
- Harpoon gun water cannon (13 gallons per minute)
- Hydraulic drive controls
- GPS navigation
- Pro-audio
- ipad/ ipod/ iphone interface controls
- LED RGB programmable lighting system
- Library
- Specimen lab
- Navigation room
- Night vision periscope
- Full bar
- Poop deck with custom shade canopy
- Air conditioning
