The $200 Million Superyacht | Octopus
The 126-meter Octopus is one of the largest and most magnificent instances of a full-fledged
yachting and exploration vessel, featuring cutting-edge equipment.
The stunning appearance features a blue and white hull and superstructure, as well as
two helipads and a hangar aft, designed by Espen Oino International.
The megayacht was built for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and is a private vessel that has
been rented out for exploration operations, scientific research efforts, and rescue missions
since its launch in 2003 at a cost of $200 million.
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The Octopus is capable of long-distance exploration and scientific research expeditions.
One of her standout features is an integrated dock that accommodates both the main 20-meter
guest tender and two submarines for exploring marine life, one of which is remotely controlled
for deeper dives.
Interior designer Jonathan Quinn Barnett also designed a professional music studio and a
huge cinema for the superyacht.
It hosts eight decks, including a private owners' deck, and can sleep up to 26 guests
in 13 staterooms, with a staff of 63 split out over 30 cabins.
Several bars, a spa, a library, a cinema, a gym, a basketball court, and numerous lounges,
including a forward-facing observation space, are among the entertainment options.
On the main deck, there are two helicopter pads: a twin pad with hangars at the stern
and a single pad at the bow, as well as a 43-foot tender docked in the transom and a
landing craft.
A total of seven tenders are on board.
A pool is positioned aft on one of the yacht's upper decks, as well as two submarines, one
of them operated by remote control and capable of attaining greater depths.
The latter was given to Google Earth for the project "Explore the Ocean."
A dock for personal watercraft is formed by side hatches at the water's edge.
Octopus has a range of 12,500 nautical miles at a cruising speed of 12.5 knots.
Octopus, which is equipped with a submarine and a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), was
loaned to Allen for a range of rescue and research missions.
These include assisting in the search for an American pilot and two officers whose jet
went missing off the coast of Palau and lending his yacht to scientists studying the coelacanth,
a "living fossil" formerly thought to be extinct.
One of its helicopters was forced to make an emergency landing in the waters off the
coast of Argentina in January 2011, while on way to Antarctica.
The helicopter was heavily damaged, but no one was killed, and only the co-pilot received
minor injuries.
In 2012, Allen loaned the ship to the Royal Navy in an attempt to recover the ship's bell
from the Admiral-class battlecruiser HMS Hood, which sank to a depth of 9,000 feet in the
Denmark Strait as a national memorial during World War II.
When the German battleship Bismarck fired a round at HMS Hood, the ship's magazines
exploded, and the ship sank in minutes, killing over 1,400 people.
Due to inclement weather, the bell was found but not recovered.
On August 7, 2015, it was announced that the ROV operating from Octopus had recovered the
bell from the HMS Hood.
The bell was restored and displayed at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth
in 2016.
An Allen-led research team declared in March 2015 that it has discovered the Japanese battleship
Musashi in the Sibuyan Sea off the Philippine coast.
Musashi and its sister ship Yamato were the largest and most heavily armed battleships
in naval history, with 46 cm (18.1 in) main guns and a displacement of 73,000 tons at
full load.
Allen passed away in 2018.
The yacht was refitted at Blohm+Voss from December 2018 to July 2019 and was put up
for sale in September 2019 with a $295 million asking price.
The boat was sold in 2021 for $235 million after the asking price was decreased.
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