Odd Cruise Picture: Paul Allen’s Yacht, “The Octopus”
This past weekend I built myself a new computer (yes I am a geek at heart). So, I decided to upload my pictures from this past cruise onto the hard drive. As I was uploading and organizing pictures, VH1 was playing in the other room. The name of the show that played was called, “The Fabulous Life of Geeks”. It was all about how the super rich geeks out there (a group to which I definitely don’t belong) spend their money.
Just as I was done uploading pictures I walked out to the other room to change the channel when they happened to be doing a segment on Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. They were showing his 414 foot yacht “The Octopus”. Suddenly it hit me that I had seen that ship somewhere, it was on my computer. So I ran back out to the other room and looked through my files and there it was, the biggest personal watercraft I had ever seen. I took the pictures on disembarkation day in the port in San Juan, it was docked across the water from the Adventure of the Seas. When I initially took the pictures I was thinking it was about 250 to 300 feet which was impressive enough. However, I was shocked to find out it was nearly half the length of our cruise ship. My friend actually didn’t think it was a yacht but I was convinced it was, I guess this settles that argument.
To give you an idea about ridiculously over the top this ship is here are some facts about it.
- The Octopus Cost Paul Allen 200 million dollars to build
- This ship has a permanent crew of 60 including several Navy Seals
- The Octopus has two helicopters with landing pads at both the front and back of the ship
- The Octopus contains seven boats including a 60+ foot tender
- It also has a 10 man submarine capable of sleeping 8 people underwater for a total of two weeks
- If all that wasn’t cool enough it also has a remote controlled vehicle for crawling the floor of the ocean
- Paul Allen spends roughly 20 million dollars a year to run the Octopus
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