Watch: Saudi Arabia's Turtle-shaped 'Floating City' Is Set To Be The World's Largest Boat (2024)

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Why is Saudi Arabia building a floating city? ›

It's a real city called the Line and Saudi Arabia is building this as part of a revolutionary hub called Neom. Neom is a combination of two words ― 'Neo', the Greek word for new and 'Mustaqbal' which means future in Arabic. It'll be a hub for technology and futuristic living.

The terayacht extends by length for 550 meters and measures a width of 610 meters with its extended wings, through which will house 19 villas as well as 64 apartments per wing.

Saudi Arabia has been proposed as a location for the construction of a massive turtle-shaped yacht, dubbed Pangeos. If the project is constructed, it will become the biggest sea vessel ever built, essentially a massive floating city.

How was Venice born? This beautiful city is built on 118 islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges, in the middle of the shallow Venetian Lagoon at the head of the Adriatic Sea in Northern Italy. That's how it gets its name, the floating city.

In science fiction and fantasy, floating cities and islands are a common trope, ranging from cities and islands that float on water to ones that float in the atmosphere of a planet by purported scientific technologies or by magical means.

History Supreme is worth 4.8 billion dollars and is undoubtedly one of the most expensive yachts in the world to date. It has a magnificent look to it as it is covered entirely with solid gold. Solid gold of 10,000kg is used on this 100-foot-long yacht; its owner is Robert Knok who is one of the wealthiest Malaysians.

Alisher Usmanov's super-yacht, "Dilbar." Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images. Dilbar, owned by Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, is the largest superyacht in the world and it's valued at $735 million. In April 2022, the yacht was impounded in Germany.

Sea turtles are the live representatives of a group of reptiles that have existed on Earth and traveled our seas for the last 100 million years.

A turtle ship (Korean: 거북선; RR: geobukseon; Korean pronunciation: [kʌ. buk̚. s͈ʌn]) was a type of warship that was used by the Korean Joseon Navy from the early 15th century up until the 19th century. They were used alongside the panokseon warships in the fight against invading Japanese fleets.

Mark Zuckerberg's new yacht has become a social media sensation thanks to a viral TikTok video capturing its stunning visuals. The massive vessel, currently docked in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, isn't shy about its luxury.

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The Line was originally pitched as an environmental utopia, embodying the NEOM-coined principle “Zero Gravity Urbanism.” Within the city's sky-high mirrored walls, spanning 600 feet wide, spaces for living, working, and recreation would be layered vertically, “creating “never-before-seen efficiencies in city functions, ...

It'll be 330 feet deep. So not really “skyscraper” height, but that's like a 25-story underground building. They're calling it a “futuristic living” space. (A dystopian future, maybe.)

The construction and maintenance of floating cities requires advanced technologies and infrastructure. In addition, exposure to marine weather, salt water, and corrosion could make construction and maintenance more complex and costly.

Floating City, which can expand to accommodate more than 200,000 people, was designed to "adapt to the shifting needs" of coastal cities that are particularly vulnerable to sea level rise, like New York; Jakarta, Indonesia; and Shanghai, according to LCA.