The Pangeos Terayacht Should Have Been a Genius Floating City, but It Might Be a Disaster

The internet loved it. Social media adored it and soon filled up with renderings of the yacht sporting the size of an entire continent. Everybody wanted a piece of it. How big is it? How long can it sail? How luxurious is it? The designer had an answer to every single question. But not a builder.

The Pangeos Terayacht is outrageously large and insanely engineered. Specifically designed for the ultra-rich, it has the name of a disappeared continent, but the looks of a futuristic floating city. If it will ever be built, that is.

It should measure 1,800 feet (550 meters) in length and 2,000 feet (610 meters) in width at its widest point in the wings. Or flippers. Or turtle legs. The steel hull would have comprised 30,000 individual cells slash cluster compartments, which would make it virtually unsinkable. With a capacity of 60,000 (is that even possible?), it'd better be!

The Pangeos Terayacht would be powered by 9 HTS engines of 16,800 horsepower, which would provide it with a cruising speed of 5 knots (5.7 mph/9.2 kph).

The idea of the $8 billion larger-than-life yacht surfaced back in 2009. Lazzarini was hoping that luxury shipyards like Oceanco, Lurssen, Benetti, or Heesen would be fascinated by the idea and join in. However, two years after the project was unveiled, it is still just a project of renderings and nothing more.

Now the hype is gone, the Pangeos Terayacht does not seem such a great idea after all. The owner of the Adam Something YouTube channel, Adam Kovacs, strips down the project to prove that it was a total failure, an engineering disaster from every perspective.

The structure integrates a large floating park, which includes hundreds of tons of soil and vegetation, planted into the hull of the ship, surrounded by luxury residences. All the CGIs and sketches show the plan of what the Pangeos would be.

Furthermore, Lazzarini showed a drawing of the future turtle-shaped ship and the names of several brands from the yachting world in the company of a disclaimer written in very tiny letters: "None of the brands below are now involved yet in the project."

The team had it all set up: the building process involved dredging one square kilometer of sea by building a circular dam and then waiting for the enclosed area to dry out. The plan indicates that the ship would be built in the sea, directly, not on land, and then sent out on the water.

The same website refers to a Terashipyard for the Terayacht. So, where is that 'build the ship in the middle of the sea' plan? The new plan involves digging out 600 meters on 650 meters into the land and concrete the 39-acre area. That would turn out to be the site for the construction of the ship.

The sketch shows that the building stage would take place on the shore of Saudi Arabia. But does Saudi Arabia know about it? Probably not. Once completed, the ship would go straight into the Red Sea and the super-tight Suez Canal or circle Africa.

Shall we remind you that the Suez Canal is 656 feet (200 meters) wide at its narrowest point? This means that there is no way the "turtle ship" could squeeze through the canal and into the Mediterranean Sea and those "wings" cannot be retracted since they host villas with pools, and cars, and everything a city would usually host.

The website also claims that the mega-ship would have its sea launch in 2023. We are in 2024, and they haven't even started building it yet. The images showing the construction process are not actual photos but renderings.

Adam Kovacs points out that the cranes in the renderings are toy cranes that sport plastic dials that kids can easily operate by hand to make the setup turn. It surely is going to take them some time to build that $8 billion ship using toy cranes.

Furthermore, the CGIs show roads made of concrete for the golf karts and cars to travel from one place to another. But concrete roads are really the best idea for a ship that is supposed to float and withstand waves even during storms?

And wait, there is more! The images show helicopters on the stadium-like roof of the floating city that is supposed to host 60,000 guests. That would be as much as a soccer stadium would be able to host.

But people sit or stand at the stadium for a couple of hours, they don't live there in luxury villas on both sides of strip pools. So, how would they ever be able to shovel in so many people on the Pangeos?

There are also helicopters parked on the stadium-like roof of the ship. There is no helipad in sight up there, so we just hope those helicopters won't come rolling down over the villas when the sea gets rought. Instead, there is a heliped right next to what seems to be a villa. The upper corner of it is going to be clipped by the helicopter blades the moment they start rotating.

And "the best" is yet to come. The digital sketches show an electric Fiat 500 next to a charging station. So we are going to see cars on the ship. Why in the world would anybody need cars on a ship? There are 150 pools on the Pangeos, and there is a lake where yachts can sail. So we are getting yachts on a yacht. Why in the world would we need yachts on a yacht? This is becoming redundant.

Those who are interested in buying a house on the Pangeous Terayacht can virtually auction for it on the official website but will have to use the ETH currency to get one.