Curtiss Jackson, California resident, founded two entities: Semisub CA and Semisub LLC, with purpose of constructing and operating partially submersible vessel for tourism. Semisub One was marketed to investors as catamaran-style boat with windows fully submerged underwater.
Curtiss E. Jackson, 70, the CEO of a shipbuilding company in Hawaii was arrested while attempting to flee the island of Oahu on a fully stocked and fueled boat to avoid a pretrial hearing in his case.
A Honolulu man at the center of a decade-long semi-submersible vessel scheme was arrested by US Marshals while trying to flee Oahu on his boat, Friday.
The Justice Department announced Tuesday it filed charges against a couple over an alleged multimillion-dollar scheme involving semi-submersible boating vessels.