1. Description

2. History

3. References
     Notes    Sources  

4. Further reading

5. External links

Description

Octopus has two helicopter^[2] pads on the main deck, a twin pad and hangars at the stern and a single pad on the bow; and a {{convert|63|ft|m|adj=on}} tender docked in the transom and a landing craft. There are a total of seven tenders aboard. The yacht also has a pool, located aft on one of its upper decks,^[3] and two submarines (one of them operated by remote control and capable of attaining greater depths). The latter was lent to Google Earth for the "Explore the Ocean" project.^[3] Side hatches at the water line form a dock for personal watercraft.

The exterior was designed by Espen Øino Naval Architects and built by the German shipbuilders Lürssen in Bremen and HDW^[4] in Kiel. The interior was by designer Jonathan Quinn Barnett of Seattle.

History

Octopus was built in 2003 and refitted in 2008.

Allen loaned Octopus, which is equipped with a submarine and ROV, for a variety of rescue and research operations. These include assisting in a hunt for an American pilot and two officers whose plane disappeared off Palau, and loaning his yacht to scientists to study the coelacanth, a "living fossil" that was once believed to be extinct.

In January 2011, while en route to Antarctica, one of its helicopters was forced to make an emergency landing in the waters off the coast of Argentina. While the helicopter was severely damaged, there was no loss of life, with only the co-pilot suffering minor injuries. Allen was not aboard at the time.^[5][6]

In 2012, he loaned the ship to the Royal Navy in their attempt to retrieve the ship's bell from the {{sclass2-|Admiral|battlecruiser}} {{HMS|Hood}}, which sank to a depth of {{convert|9,000|ft|m}} in the Denmark Strait during World War II, as a national memorial. HMS Hood was hit by a shell from the {{ship|German battleship|Bismarck}}; its magazines exploded and the ship sank in minutes with a loss of over 1,400 lives. The bell was located but not recovered, due to adverse weather conditions. On 7 August 2015 it was announced that the bell from HMS Hood had been recovered by the ROV operating from Octopus. After conservation, the bell was put on display in 2016 at the National Museum of the Royal Navy Portsmouth, England.{{cn|date=December 2018}}

In March 2015, an Allen-led research team announced that it had found the Japanese battleship {{ship|Japanese battleship|Musashi||2}} in the Sibuyan Sea off the coast of the Philippines.^[7] Armed with {{convert|46|cm|in|abbr=on|1}} main guns and displacing 72,800 tonnes (74,000 tons) at full load, Musashi and its sister ship {{ship|Japanese battleship|Yamato||2}} were the largest and most heavily armed battleships in naval history.^[8]

References

Notes

Sources

• {{cite web |url=http://www.superyachts.com/motor-yacht-3412/octopus.htm |title=Octopus Yacht |publisher=SuperYachts.com |accessdate=8 January 2015}}

Further reading

• {{cite web |url=http://www.superyachtfan.com/superyacht_octopus.html |title=Super Yacht Octopus |publisher=superyachtfan.com |accessdate=8 January 2015}}

External links

• PDF file from 2004 containing 53 Octopus photos and the ship's detailed statistical data
• Gallery of 21 Octopus photos from 2010
• Octopus: il megayacht ha lasciato Genova {{it icon}}
• USS Indianapolis Wreckage Found

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