With adventure cruising steadily increasing, more and more private and charter megayachts alike are adding places as wide ranging as the South Pacific and Antarctica to their itineraries. The trouble is, oftentimes there are no local agents and no marinas in those regions, so experienced expedition leaders are needed. Related to this is the growing popularity of personal subs—but here, too, trouble arises if the yacht wasn’t designed to carry one.
EYOS Expeditions and Triton Submarines have a solution. The two companies are pairing up to consult on new builds and megayacht charters.
The partnership makes sense, considering each company has already been providing some of these services independently. Triton Submarines’ team has worked with a few owners and their representatives throughout the build process to provide key data on a sub’s weight and proper ways to deploy it. In addition, for the past year, the company has been offering subs for charter. Some owners and guests have wanted to dive to depths that they can’t with scuba gear, and with enough advanced notice (typically a few weeks), Triton Submarines can arrange for a sub that will seat the appropriate party and dive to varying depths. In addition, some megayacht owners have been keen to help make contributions to scientific study, so they, too, have requested subs to accompany them on travels. As Marc Deppe, Triton Submarines’ vice president of marketing, says, “The most exciting aspect of these remote, deep dives is that we will be taking people to places that no human has gone before.”
Similarly, EYOS Expeditions has consulted on new-construction projects and charters in recent years, seeing a 20-percent increase in requests for Antarctic expeditions alone, according to Capt. Ben Lyons, the company’s CEO. The team arranges for permits (typically six months in advance) and will personally inspect a megayacht to ensure she, and her crew, are up to the trip. EYOS Expeditions has, more than once, seen megayachts that are promoted as being expedition yachts that actually aren’t outfitted with ice belts or otherwise properly set up. As Lyons puts it, “You can’t take a yacht where the key consideration is a pretty paint job,” or where fixed stabilizers are onboard, as the constantly moving ice destroys both.
For more information directly from Triton Submarines and EYOS Expeditions about the partnership, fill out our contact form.
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