Photo from Marine Insight
Last month's solar eclipse drew quite a crowd and created a stir among people who called it a "once in a lifetime" opportunity. It had been over a century since there had been a total eclipse visible from the contiguous United States.
But even rarer than this phenomenon is the world’s largest and most expensive yacht, which is also called the Eclipse.
The Eclipse was built in Hamburg, Germany, by Blohm + Voss, designed by Terence Disdale and is worth $1.2 billion. It was then sold to a Russian businessman name Roman Ambramovich.
This yacht has a length of 162.5 meters, a breadth of 21.5 meters and a draught of five meters, with perpendiculars of 147 meters. The interior living room totals 6,000 square feet, and the capacity allows for 30 guests and 92 staff crew members.
The features on this yacht are unparalleled. The top deck has two helipads and a garage, and the remaining eight decks contain a pilot house, a salon, a dining hall, an exterior fireplace and a 16-meter swimming pool that can be converted into a dance floor. There are also 11 staterooms and suites, each with their own private six-foot home cinema screen, a Jacuzzi, spa and specialized security system. The whole yacht even has internal lifts!
The safety features on the Eclipse are the most technologically advanced, with motion sensors, bulletproof glass and antiballistic missile defense.
But arguably one of the coolest parts: there is a three-person private submarine that can go down to a depth of 160 feet.
Now that’s an eclipse I would want to see.
