Billionaires Demand Military-Grade Security on Their Superyachts

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed)
Oct 1st 2010 at 6:02PM

In an effort to boost the flagging superyacht market, manufacturers are fitting them out with increasingly complex, military-grade security systems aimed at assuaging the fears of paranoid billionaires. Bloomberg News reports from the Monaco Yacht Show that security systems similar to the ones on Roman Abramovich's enormous Eclipse are now standard issue for high-end craft. Pascal Wiscour-Conter, chief executive officer of Equisea Yacht Management in Monte Carlo, says that any billionaire buying a superyacht these days shells out an extra $400,000 at least for additional defensive measures, including bulletproof glass and "NATO military technology integrated with NASA satellite tracking to create an invisible offensive security bubble with underwater sonic cannons and surface lasers that evaluate and take out anyone who lays siege to the vessel." Wiscour-Conter notes that the high-tech system "knows the difference between a malicious scuba diver and a curious dolphin, and we transmit all the information to your iPhone four times a day."

Tags: billionaire, Monaco, Monte Carlo, Roman Abramovich, security, superyacht, wealth, yacht

Filed under: Yachts & Sailing, Wealth

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cdavenportwoods Dec 4th 2010 3:27PM

Military Grade Security on Superyachts is an expected eventuality. Like any asset of considerable value, be it Jewellery, Property or Art, security is of utmost importance, nothwithstanding the demands of insurance companies in these exclusive communities to insure complex assets with incredible value .
It is a natural evolution, nothing less.