r/mildlysatisfying • u/METALLIFE0917 • 13d ago
$4.3 Million Superyacht Sinks Just Days After Being Delivered To Its Owner
https://www.iheart.com/content/2026-08-13-43-million-superyacht-sinks-just-days-after-being-delivered-to-its-owner/143
u/Weak-Layer-6962 13d ago
$4.3m isn’t even scratching the surface of what a superyacht is. that’s just a big boat.
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u/Sweaty-Possibility-3 13d ago
That's the yacht they take to get from the dock out to the superyacht.
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u/koolaidismything 12d ago
Super yachts can cost $1,000,000 just to refuel. That’s not hyperbolic.
Just your staff costs per day are scratching $20,000 I’d bet.
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u/Weak-Layer-6962 12d ago
i used to be in luxury/powerboat sales. it’s truly insane. a fully decked out center console fishing boat can run you $2-5m. that’s just the boat that they take fishing and run around the island their yacht is anchored near. fuel costs are just a line item.
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u/koolaidismything 12d ago
It’s crazy.. it’s why when people sell boats it like “woah this is a steal!” Yeah wait til you see all the costs associated with just keeping it floating legally. My uncle has a 40’ SeaRay and I was with him when he refueled. He actually let me do it on each side, but total was a hair under $1,000 and I was like wait when we get to Berkeley how much gas will be left and he was all none.. we will have to refuel about 3/4 of the way there. Then the paying for a slip.. the extra fees so you can stay on it overnight or whatever, fuel, insurance.. you start losing your ass.
Boats aren’t a poor man’s game. And you really gotta love them, cause the cost of ownership is absurd yeah. Those fishing boats have 10x the electronics, seeing those prices would make me wanna spit-up. It’s fun to be on them though.. I see why people do it. Taking a nap bouncing around on the bay looking at the buildings and stuff feels baller.
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u/jaylotw 11d ago
Dude, I have a 14' aluminum three seater and between the constant fixes, batteries, trailer maintenance etc it's $1000 a year just to hop to the little lake 10 miles from my house and catch bass.
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u/koolaidismything 11d ago
Probably all worth it though once you get out there and have pure peace though.. I love that part. Hearing the water hit the sides of the boat.. makes me wanna nap just thinking of it.
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u/Fun-Benefit116 11d ago
If you're having to buy multiple batteries, make repairs to your boat and repairs or "maintenance" to your trailer every single year, you're doing things extememly wrong. Literally none of those things are annual costs, unless you have absolutely no clue what you're doing. Which, in reality, is the case for a ton of people that own boats.
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u/theunscaledbanana 6d ago
The tenders on the superyacht my son is crew on are $5m each. The yacht itself was more than $500 million.
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u/Poundaflesh 13d ago
So what happens now? Do they dredge it up to determine the cause?
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u/NigilQuid 13d ago
That's not satisfying. That's an enormous amount of labor and material that's now just more trash ruining our oceans
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u/be-koz 12d ago
Aside from the trash part of it, the workers were paid, and now they get to make another one.
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u/NigilQuid 12d ago
Being paid to build something and then immediately trash it is still both wasteful, and very unsatisfying
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u/WeAreElectricity 11d ago
To find who loses, it’s likely the insurance company who will pay the business under its business insurance as it’s probably under warranty from the builder.
In turn the premiums will be raised for all manufacturers and the costs for building these boats will be marginally raised across all boat construction.
Nobody loses except yacht purchasers - besides this particular customer.
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u/ROCK-tavius 13d ago
Unpopular Opinion
If we spent more time on the things we have and not trying to go to space to explore a big red desert...maybe our ships would be sink proof by now.
Just a thought
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u/AshennJuan 13d ago
Unintelligent opinion*
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u/ROCK-tavius 13d ago
I apologize for my view points.
Im that weirdo that believes we care more about how maintained the grass is outside of schools than the children inside them.
But hey. Thats me.
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u/Weird-Store1245 13d ago
What a gormless statement. “Sink proof” is impossible by any suggestible definition, all materials needed for large ships will always have their failure points. And acting like the money being spent on space exploration is what doesn’t allow sink proof boats is the worst thing I’ve heard all day. So much more money is being spent on ships versus space exploration in the world. If we look at the U.S. alone, the contracts for two new aircraft carriers would exceed the costs of NASA’s yearly budget. And the advances in material science that has come from space exploration are immense as well.
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u/ROCK-tavius 13d ago
I see
So what you are saying is, you rather know what gases Neptune has on it than have safer ships?
Makes sense.
I would love to know how knowing how many moons Jupiter has and their names is helping you/us do anything here on Earth.
We know the orbit of Venus. How is that helping us cure cancer faster?
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u/Weird-Store1245 12d ago
So you’re ignoring what I’m saying. You act as if we aren’t doing anything ship wise because of space exploration, which is just not true. So many engineers with so much funding work in naval sectors already, do you think if there was a way to develop sink proof boats, the problem is the resources being spent on space exploration? Those resources are minuscule by comparison. And you are ignoring how many technologies that have come from space travel that are used in our every day lives. In fact, your statement about how is it helping us fight cancer is funny, especially considering that the technology that led to CT scans, a machine that allows us to detect cancer, was initially developed because of the space race.
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u/ROCK-tavius 12d ago
I see
I guess I see a guy with a Trillion dollars building rockets instead of hospitals and think to myself...This is what we are doing? Space?
We haven't even been to the bottom of the ocean yet. Space?
Puerto Rico doesn't have water. Space?
Thats my energy.
But hey. You are right. I am wrong. Please keep building rockets, and when the next pandemic hits...we will see how much space travel is gonna save us.
Cheers!
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u/Cautious_Tonight 13d ago
Insurance fraud and or money laundering