The financial crisis sent panic through the world of superyachts, with over-leveraged tycoons abandoning ship, author Mark Seal writes for Vanity Fair magazine.
However, billionaires continue to ride the waves in megayachts bigger than multiple football fields.
Seal takes a look at vessels that include Roman Abramovich’s record-size Eclipse; the floating advertisement of the Candy brothers’ Candyscape II; the eye-popping Jeff Koons exterior of Dakis Joannou’s Guilty; and Tara Getty’s historic Blue Bird.