Saudi Arabia’s $8b Turtle-Shaped Yacht Would Be a Floating City That Breaks Records

Saudi Arabia’s $8b Turtle-Shaped Yacht Would Be a Floating City That Breaks Records

Saudi Arabia wants to build a massive turtle-shaped yacht that’s both a vessel, and a floating city. Not only will it be massive, it will also be massively expensive. Saudi Arabia plans to spend around $8 billion on this project. The yacht is called Pangeos, after Pangea, the supercontinent that existed 200 million years ago – …

The post Saudi Arabia’s $8b Turtle-Shaped Yacht Would Be a Floating City That Breaks Records appeared first on Gulf Insider.Saudi Arabia wants to build a massive turtle-shaped yacht that’s both a vessel, and a floating city.

Not only will it be massive, it will also be massively expensive.

Saudi Arabia plans to spend around $8 billion on this project.

The yacht is called Pangeos, after Pangea, the supercontinent that existed 200 million years ago – but this is unlike anything we’ve seen before.

At 1,800 feet (550 meters), this would set a world record for the largest floating structure ever made.

It is three times longer than the largest yacht in the world, the Azzam.

According to Lazzarini, the design studio that’s working on the project with Saudi Arabia, this is technically a yacht.

It can cover great distances by floating on water, and it can be moored to the pierside.

However, the idea is to