The Jet Car is exactly what it sounds like, and it still surprises people: a car-shaped amphibious craft that drives out across the water off JBR Beach. Very few of these machines exist anywhere, which is why it draws a crowd along the shoreline every time it launches. You ride with a trained captain at the controls, so there is nothing to learn and nothing to operate - your job is to hold on while it accelerates away from the beach, carves turns and throws up spray along the Dubai Marina waterfront. A life jacket is provided and worn throughout. The ride runs twenty minutes, which is about as long as the novelty and the adrenaline both hold at full strength, and it slots neatly into a morning or afternoon already spent at the beach.