Pangeos Terayacht: An $8 Billion Engineering Disaster 

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The way they intend to build a dry dock in the middle of the ocean sounds like they're trying to drain an ocean monument in Minecraft.

Traffic jams on an ocean vessel, truly revolutionary.

Projects that are never leaving the optimistic computer render stage are the BEST

Always love to see ocean-centric projects from people whose only experience with water is their personal pool, where large waves and rocking boats are simply myths to keep your from investing in the funny turtle yacht

Also worth mentioning is the fact that on some of these renders you can see a couple of PRIVATE JETS parked on the upper ring of the structure. That'd be a hell of a feat, landing a jet plane on a moving structure, on a circular, oblong runway, dodging helicopters and avoiding the giant pit with people at the bottom.

The terayacht is the equivalent of hiring a bunch of engineers and telling them to follow whatever plans your 7 year old son makes

This suddenly makes sense if you assume it was only ever intended to be a crypto scam.

I think our planet might be a comedy show for aliens.

I can imagine a beached Terayacht serving as a compound for some warlord in a post-apocalyptic setting/story.

It's always a good sign when me, someone who has spent 0 time thinking about naval engineering before this point, takes one look at those side flippers and goes "... wait."

When the infoposter on the megaproject has two spelling errors and some small text that says that none of the companies that have their logos on the poster actually want anything to do with the project, it's time to worry. When the concept art is lego its time to run.

This project is somehow even more dystopian than Waterworld. Which is ironically the exact type of scenario is seems to want to prepare for.

The fact this thing is designed in the shape of an endangered species is some ghoulish reference.

From the creators of the waterproof sponge, the fireproof matches, the inflatable anchor, the pedal powered wheelchair and the silent alarm clock, we're proud to introduce the concrete cruise.

5:00 Concrete ships actually are a thing. During WW2 there was a serious shortage of steel, so the Western Allies built some concrete barges. They mainly served as pontoons, blocking ships or transport vessels.

I made a calculation. The 60’000 guests are divided into three categories: 500 super rich people (SRP), 5’000 crew to operate the… thing and serve the SRP, and 54’500 rowers to move the whole stuff at the whooping speed of 1 knot downwind. The food stores should be sufficient for an autonomy of 2,5 days, which is amply enough to get out of the terayard and back, if wind and currents allow it.

They should instead build a turtle shaped affordable housing complex

I love how despite the fact that we've been building ships to be more and more hydrodynamic for centuries, suddenly someone though that "This ship should have the most drag in existence because it looks cool" is a good idea. I have a feeling the "yacht" would need nuclear propulsion just to gently move. Someone should tell the "engineers" who designed this that when sea turtles extend their flippers, it's to PUSH themselves in water, they don't cruise in that fixed position.

That thing could be built entirely out of the largest ship engines and fuel tanks and it still wouldnt move an inch. There's a reason why ships are long and relatively narrow. Water drag is a bitch. That thing is at minimum pushing two Oasis of the Seas SIDEWAYS through water. Imagine the size of that bow wake, it would not be allowed anywhere near shores because of the tsunamis it'd cause so it would live in the open ocean. Which would cause some "slight" issues with refueling and resupplying.

This project should have the lifespan of a soap sardine. "present project" "Interrupted after intro" "Back to finding new job opportunity"

U know its gonna fail when it looks like as if its designed in Minecraft and violates several laws of physics

A floating doomsday bunker for the mega rich. One that has no way to power itself forward, is full of concrete and is prone to break apart when there are waves. We need this!

I took some architecture design classes a while back (thought I wanted to be an architect) and looking at this from an architectural standpoint is wild. Take this with a VERY HUGE grain of salt, but I want to take an analysis of this. Let me see here... 1) The goal is to hold 60K people but they have full size houses instead of apartment-like buildings. Even with the size of the whole thing, you need to maximize space if you want that many people. 2) The fins are poorly designed. Points like that can be a huge pain in the ass to design and build. What goes at the end of the points? Can it fit what is going to go there? It being dead space makes is pointless and a waste of money. 3) You mentioned the yacht tipping over and water spilling from the pools. I'm no expert at all, but from what I understand it would take one hell of a wave to actually get it to move like that based on how cruise ships are designed. However, I'm not excusing the fact that is a possibility. Along with that, having pools that big and that close next to HOUSES on an OCEAN LIVING AREA sounds like a terrible idea and a lawsuit waiting to happen. 4) Concrete. In the ocean. What could go wrong? Also, concrete is hella expensive. I got chewed out for having a spot on one of my buildings that was just a giant concrete dome. I don't think $8 billion would be able to cover all of that. Based on a simple google search, steel, aluminum, wood, and fiberglass are the best for making boats. 5) The shape of the boat is to help with water tension and stuff right (I'm probably really wrong on that)? With the way the yacht is shaped, it looks like it would be very poor for moving across water. Having it stand still would be better. 6) I'm not an expert on any of this, but I don't think it is safe to put the crew where it is. I may be wrong and I'll admit if I am, but that seems like a safety hazard. 7) On the flippers, those walls do not seem high enough. Water will get inside, contaminate the pool water, and most likely cause water damage to houses. 8) I'm pretty sure helipads have their own requirements for it to be up to code and all of that. Regardless of where this would be built, I believe all of the codes would be very similar to each other so none of those helipads are up to code. 9) That dam is not happening. For multiple reasons that I'm sure don't need explaining. 10) The shape of a sea turtle COULD work, but you have to considers functionality, whether or not its up to code, and all of that jazz. Whoever designed this prioritized design over everything else. 11) They seemed to have never considered how the yacht would actually move. For a ship that big, you would need a whole section dedicated to just engines. In my eyes, that whole back section should just be an engine. 12) Stuff like plants and trees would not work. I believe stuff like humidity and being around large amounts of salt water constantly would cause the plants and trees to die. This is not a greenhouse. That's about all I got for now. Again, I'm not expert on anything so take this with a whole container of salt, I'm just making inferences based on what I know. I will gladly say that I'm wrong if any of this is incorrect.

Man, the *Turtle Club* from "The Master of Disguise" sure got an upgrade.

Having one of the biggest 'Fuck you' to wildlife shaped like a turtle is quite the statement indeed.

This looks like the villan's final hideout in a JRPG

What the hell! You added "Helicopter, Helicoper" AND Deus Ex AND Age of Mythology music in this video? I can't love you enough, Adam!

Don’t forget the business jets that require a straight run of a kilometre or two to get off the ground just casually parked on the roof like they can just lap the boat a few times to build up speed for rotation.

"Cruise industry is imploding because all our customers are dying of old age" "We should build a bigger boat"

The Lego Cranes are a next level fuck up. Holy.

I'm an engineer by trade (20 year career), my son however is not. He's just seen me watching this in passing and said "that's just wishful thinking" hmm. Well said young man.

Anyone here watched the movie Elysium? The one where shit on Earth hits the fan so hard the rich rather make a space station eden garden so they don't need to do anything? And there's like 2000 families max, and the station has problems keeping up with itself? And it was also build by Cave Johnson, the stupidly rich and richly stupid guy from Portal 2, because fuck you, the only thing that comes after combustible lemons is super ships from concrete. But those lemons at least sound somewhat useful.

This literally feels like something somebody would build in Minecraft

Back in art school, for our 3D modeling class, we had to design and present a concept for a floating city of the future when the sea level rises. Since the focus of the project was the design aspect, we were completely unbound by any sort of realism and this is exactly the kind of wild ideas people came up with.

It also begs the question of what they expect to build this out of. The flippers are so wide that irregular waves (which is *all* waves) will more than likely cause the entire vessel to experience enough stresses to significantly warp if not shatter most structural materials I can think of off the bat--especially since this thing has to float.

There are actually some examples of dry docks reclaimed from the ocean where they built a square wall, pumped the water out, built a ship, and then let water in slowly

The inside of the turtle looks like if Venice was made out of American suburbs

I also love how all the premium private villas are arranged deep within the structure, so not only do you not get the benefit of having a view - you get to be overlooked by all the -peasants- "guests" in their little inward facing cabins.

- So you have a megaproject for me? - Yes Sir I do. I was thinking we'd build a giant turtle in the middle of the sea. - Don't you think it'll be hard to build that in the sea? - It'll be super easy barely an inconvenience. - And you're sure the turtle shape is the best one? - That's what we're going with.

Boatbuilder here. Concrete boats are a real thing and work quite well. With enough displacement, anything can be used to make a boat. Plus, the advantage of making a boat out of concrete is that it gets stronger with age. The disadvantage is that repairs are difficult and are not done by most boatbuilders. I've sailed on two concrete sail boats, and they're great 👍

I KNEW something was missing while watching this, like one important piece of the puzzle. Then this project went "Hey, also buy our NFTs!" and it all came together.

To quote the physicist Wolfgang Pauli, "This is not right. This is not even wrong."

Someone saw that one mission from Black Ops 2 and immediately thought this would be a fantastic idea.

One bad typhoon, and down Davy Jones' locker it goes. Absolutely moronic.

I love how the water in the middle was clearly meant to be a port- it's colored different, there are yachts, heck you can SEE where it connects to the ocean. Then someone asked "what happens to all the boats and even the dock itself when the turtle starts to move?" and they went "no, no, it is pool!"

All it needs is four elephants walking in circles on the upper deck.

3:19 The Lego Racers menu music was a nice touch lol

Bro missed the 4 private jets and the 1 sailing yacht that somehow made it under a bridge that’s like 10ft above the water

"You know how we figured out the best shape for a hydrodynamic ship like....8000 years ago? Forget all that. I've got two words for you: "Giant Turtle" "

That thing would be an insanely cool location for some scifi post apocalypse game. No need to be physically possible when you can just handwave it and say "nanobots"

I love how one of the renders appears to have actual jet aircraft parked on the roof

Per their website: "At the moment, Pangeos is just a concept, but it's starting to his way to become something more than a computer animation." It's not an engineering disaster, it's a fantasy.

My guess is this was created by some Malaysian Discworld-fan architect students who had some fun after a party where they got drunk.

As a guy who works on ships, I'm fascinated by what they think will happen to the bow wash and water flow with those weird shaped flipper wings where huge amounts of displaced water will collect. This is why most ships have bows shaped narrow that allow water flow to pass along the length of the hull and not create areas it'll just collect.

Oh boy, listening to you roasting all those "smart ideas" made me really laugh 😅

Thank you for playing the same song that my son's favorite firetruck video plays in th3 background. Properly encapsulated the vibe of these designers lol

9:40 I love how "GENERATORS" and "POWER" are in 2 different far away areas

I can’t help but notice that in one of the renders at 10:11 there are PRIVATE JETS parked next to the helicopters on the roof. I can’t find any runways on board so I can only assume they’re claiming the ship can match the speed of an aircraft. It wouldn’t be much crazier than the rest of this plan lol.

Even before you made me aware of all these problems, the Terayacht struck me as having a big fundamental problem that you didn't mention. And that is... what is the point of the Terayacht? The thinking behind it seems to be to build, not a curse ship but a floating town. Why? Unless you're building a railway or in the Mortal Engines universe, I can't think of any reason why you would need an entire, fully mobile community, what benefits it would have or how those benefits would outweigh it's drawbacks. And trust me, Mortal Engines has plenty of criticisms. I think the only way it makes sense is as a combination of a holiday home and a cruise ship. Also, hectares are a real thing? I thought they just made that up for a scene in the Simpsons.

I'm currently working on a dystopia set in the near future and now want to include this as some kind of hunger games capitol style HQ for the dystopia.

You didn't even mention that the Pangeos Terayacht is being guarded by 25 Metal Gear Ray units.

you missed one small thing: one of the renders (10:13) shows several private jets parked ON THE ROOF. Even if by the grace of god a plane could touch down on the longer ends of that thing, it would immediately become a smoking wreck because of the concrete barriers they've scattered about on it for seemingly no reason.

The cherry on top of this obliviously ironic billionaire hubris cake is the fact that the eye-catching shape that exists to be the basic selling point of the whole project is distinctly reminiscent of the way that turtles are drawn in Native American and Canadian art, including representations of God in their ancient creation myths. In other words, that post-cold-war, ahistorical '90s Global Village of Unchecked Capitalism aesthetic you used to be able to sell absolutely anything with. It's a giant floating tchotchke.

"Dear investors I can assure you the approximated picture of the Terayacht in drydock is an oversight. Rest assured we won't be using LEGO cranes. We've upgraded to MECCANO! On a related topic the pre-fabricated parts for the Terayacht will be supplied by Revel, the construction vehicles by Tonka, the housing will be Barbie dreamhouses from Mattel, the engines powered by energon from Hasbro and the crew will be former employees of Toys R Us. So not only will this be a great engineering achievement, it will provide jobs for disenfranchised giraffes."

I know what this ships needs for its inhabitant's commute : An hyperloop!😂

Makes me think of Dubai's man-made islands. Majority of which they haven't completed, much less used. And the ones that are used and occupied have no sewage lines and have to be serviced by daily traffic jam amounts of septic tanks on wheels. Which ultimately don't have enough facilities to dump the sewage in, so they end up dumping the stuff in the sea and other places not meant for dumping waste. If the mega rich can't get that to work, the mega rich who came up with this idea are completely out of their minds.

I am confused by the frontal shape of the ship Ships tend to have a triangular shape with the flat side in the top to reduce surface of contact and to have the most hydrodynamic shape possible This reduce attrition That thing has the two layer wings directly on contact with water These will increase horrendously the attrition and make motion much slower and costly in terms of fuel consumption It will also be an hazard as tension forces in turbulent water and moderate /high waves would be wildly different between the two sides pointing material failures of the junctions point of the wings from the main body It is a nightmare Who design these? Sea turtles have wide and FLAT fins They forgot that detail

Honestly, I love it. I think it'd be a great setting for a computer game about a dystopian future where humanity is all but extinct and we're living in these floating cities that dock at sea to transfer people around for genetic diversity. That does sound a bit familiar though...

1:45 Gotta love that their plans refer to the 'basement area' instead of the hull. Gives me tons of faith in the designers that they aren't familiar at all with nautical terminology. Somehow someone managed to top Neom for stupid projects, well done!

the difference between the Icon of the seas and this is stunning, on one end you have the most talented designers and engineers backed by decades of real experience and on the other you have someone's nephew who just learned blender.

Im just laughing at the mental image of this thing disintegrating after a wave folds this in half and a bunch of fools are dumped into the drink.

Enjoyed your comedic narration thank you for the smile ☺

Every future cruise ship must have the goon deck now

I feel like those flippers are one rough storm away from shearing clean off the side. With that in mind, I commend the Pangeos team for wanting to build a high end floating deathtrap for the ultra-rich, well played and I wish you the best of luck.

Adam I can't believe you missed an opportunity to lampoon the PRIVATE JETS parked on top of the Terayacht (visible at 10:10)

Honestly, i hope they actually try and build this thing. It would be the funniest disaster.

The drag of a ship shaped like this in the water would be ginormous.

Hey, I came up with something like this once! For a post-apocaplyptic story! Floating city of the mega rich, world gets hit by nuclear war, floating city is taken over by a crew rebellion, now it's a mobile pirate fortress. But I think my design is better because it's got an actual runway. No helipad-fuckery.

They really tried to make their own Lion Turtle, huh?

As outrageous and impractical as this is, it tickles the same part of my brain that got a kick out of reading Popular Mechanics magazine as a kid.

You say the thing in the middle is just a pool, but other renders clearly show a tunnel directly connecting it to the open sea. So like, it's simultaneously a pool, with further infrastructure right below it, AND the open ocean. It's a tiny little bay they've created. Which is even stupider than either idea alone. And it's only connected at the back. Which would theoretically create a low-pressure zone and drain it as it moves through the ocean.

It honestly feels like a concept built for a video game. A really sweet Call of Duty or Titanfall map, and this entire thing was intentionally made to fit some sort of ARG or in-game thematic presentation.

It’s not all bad news - once it inevitably sinks it will make a great reef for all manner of sea life, not to mention a great novelty diving destination.

1 correction. Just a minor nitpick. Concrete is actually a useful ship building material. Mainly used in war ships. Its not good for the smaller ones, but as you get bigger and bigger, the amount of airspace in the hull more than makes up for the density of the concrete, resulting in a pretty sturdy, cheaper to build boat. Its not super widespread, as far as im aware, but yeah. Military ships are sometimes made at least partially of concrete.

Concrete ships are actually a thing (reinforced concrete specifically), but that makes construction more expensive, and requires much thicker hull, which reduces the actual internal space you can use and hurts hydrodynamics. They're also a much bigger pain to make because, well, it's concrete, you can't just rivet and weld it into shape, you have to arrange the rebar and then let the concrete set and cure. Really they're mostly made as unpowered barges or pontoons, and the only real time that saw them being made in number was during the world wars, when more conventional materials (see: steel) were in high demand and there was a great need for cargo ships and barges for logistics.

2:24 I guessed the UAE, you got me there

please never stop making these videos, i died when you put screaming sfx over the crew quarters

This thing looks like a kickass location for a Bioshock like game.

Those coordinates at 2:58 are hilarious, they are so specific where resolution is 0.1nm, which is the same as the width of the average atom. **Very** specific location. (calculated as tan(0.000000000000001)*6378137)

I'm only a fucking computer engineer, like zero mechanical or structural knowledge, and this still makes me want to cry. Boats are boat-shaped for a reason. They are not wider than they are long, they do not have fucking wings, you don't waste like 80% of the internal space with open air, and you don't build standalone houses on a boat. You build cabins and you definetly don't build roads. The closest thing in acale would be an aircraft carrier, and this fucking monstrosity would probably cost an order of magnitude more than the damn gerald ford while being infinitely less useful and gery mostly just kills people.

I didn't know anyone was actually proposing to build this.

Best descriptions ever. Looks like that Lazzarini Design studio copy-pastes those and their visual assets throughout all their portfolio. Hysterical

Somehow you missed mentioning the render at 10:11 that shows two executive jet aircraft on the upper ring just to be ridiculous, or the fact that enormous fin shaped bow will create so much hydrodynamic pressure that any attempt to move it faster than 5mph would result in a bow wave that would swamp the ship.

One thing that gets to me is, while they try to flaunt a 600,000 person capacity (which is ridiculous), what is there to really do on this boat? Say what you will about Cruise ships, but they manage to cram a ton of people into a relatively compact volume, and still have space for malls, casinos, bars, etc. I guess you can assume they might have entertainment somewhere inside the main structures, but just from the renders: it’s a ton of pools and like 2 tennis courts

I think... if a project like this ever comes to fruition, it'll just be in the form of a man-made island. Not with an actual propulsion system

They actually had jets on the top beside the heli's, how tf is a jet suppose to take off on that monstrosity?

My thought on the buildings with the helipads right in the center of the city - The first building with the circled H on the roof was intended to be a hospital. A different concept artist saw that later on without context, assumed it was a helipad, and put a helicopter on it. A third concept artist saw the building and helicopter without context, assumed it was a mistake that the building on the other side of the boat didn't have a helipad as well, and added a circled H to that building.

I just realized something about the design of this thing: If you were to drop a bomb into this glorified cement turtle, the opening in the center would be a perfect target point. The blast would probably reverb in that hole and crack the whole thing like an egg, and going off the renders, I don't see any means of defending the yacht if it became a target. It'd be like the bombing run scene in Top Gun Maverick, only funnier.

a floating Great A'Tuin , Terry Pratchett (RIP) would have been proud to see his vision become a reality.