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"I
went to Palau Islands the other day. Flight to Palau was almost the
same as going to Hawaii but there is no comparison between Palau and
Hawaii - Palau was far more beautiful. Literally, the bottomless blue
sky, the light blue sea is so transparent that we almost forget if
there is any water, watching the tropical fish dancing in the corals
made me feel as if I was looking into a nature kaleidoscope.
Visiting islands on a cruiser, trolling near the Leaf, walling in
the sea in the diving point with a scuba diving set which has high-tech
emergency safety functions…. I spent very fulfilling 3 days.
However it happened on the last day of the trip. I went to the beachside
to get the most of the place before the departure as I didn't want
to waste any minutes but I hadn't booked a boat. What I only had was
a swimming tube but it wasn't good enough to play with.
I was reluctantly lying on a bench thinking what I should have to
have fun then. People still want motorboats, parasail and scuba diving
etc. to play even in a place like Palau.
People can still have fun by trying wind surfing or dingy, Jet Ski
in dirty marine resorts in Japan. But these marine leisure equipments
are usually very expensive and the reason why it hasn't become a major
leisure is that people have to have a proper license or high technique
to drive them. Carrying them is also a hard job, too.
On the other hand, if we look at the cheap price category, we have
very cheap options such as swimming tubes, swimming goggles, snorkel
and beach balls but there are no options in the middle price range
category, which I believe a very marketable range from 50,000 yen
to 100,000 yen, between the expensive and cheap price ranges. Why
is that?"
The main point of the presentation, which starts with the
column above, was to say the material to acquire buoyant force hampers
marine leisure products.
That means if we want to acquire a certain buoyant force with low cost,
we only have vinyl or expanded polystyrene as options and we cannot
expect a good product value with such materials. If we use rubber,
development cost will go up accordingly to the material price and the
weight and size will hamper if we use plastic. So the main point of
this presentation was to suggest utilizing the tire tubes for marine
leisure products as they are sold to motor companies with such low
price.
I came up with this idea as I caught a whiff of summer but forgot all
about it when the autumn breeze blew. This was a whimsical idea just
like a small incident in summer.
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