The Nautilus submarine
Commissioned by Christopher and Amber-Marie Bently
Lead Artist: Sean Orlando
Operations/ Electrical: David Shulman
Interior Design: Bree Hylkema
The Nautilus project is an artistic experiment and collaboration between the Bentlys, Sean Orlando and Five Ton Crane. The Nautilus is a land-based submarine art car 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
