Posted by Funkyguy on October 6, 2008 2:28 PM
Troubled with all the recent activity with the pirates, billionaire Roman Abramovich (personal fortune estimated at 11.7 billion pounds, give or take a few hundred thousand more) is installing his boat with stuff that even Clive Cussler thinks twice of throwing on Dirk Pitt. To call it a yacht is itself a stretch of the imagination given that the behemoth is 550 feet long and is being constructed in secret in Germany. Its obviously the largest private yacht ever and shall cost 200 million pounds.

As for the anti-piracy features ; these include radar equipment warning of incoming rockets/ missiles ; bullet proof windows, armor plating and former SAS personnel on the crew. A personal yellow submarine offers the last mode of escape similar to something seen in Hollywoods rendition of Air Force One.
And since the boat is being built in secret, lets not even go into speculations of what they are not telling us. Under maritime law, non-naval ships are banned from carrying firearms.




