--- title: "Jeff Bezos’ Superyacht Is So Gigantic It Needs to Be Docked Next to Oil Tankers" description: "Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns the largest yacht in the world — and it's so massive, it has to be docked next to oil tankers down in Florida." date: "2023-11-28" modified: "2023-11-28" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/jeff-bezos-superyacht-oil-tankers" categories: - "Future Society" - "Jeff Bezos" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "emissions" - "jeff bezos" - "superyacht" - "the digest" --- # Jeff Bezos’ Superyacht Is So Gigantic It Needs to Be Docked Next to Oil Tankers ![Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns the largest yacht in the world — and it's so massive, it has to be docked next to oil tankers down in Florida.]() *\Image: Karwai Tang via Getty / Futurism\* ## Beautiful View Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns a genuinely colossal superyacht — so massive, in fact, that it has to be docked next to freakin' *oil tankers* down in Florida. As the [*Luxury Launches* yachting blog reports](), Bezos' superschooner, which is [named the Koru]() after the Maori word for "coil," is a whopping 416 feet in length, which makes it 16 feet too long to be docked at the biggest yacht spot in South Florida's tony Port Everglades. Instead, it's been docked between 600-foot oil tankers, because that's extremely normal. https://twitter.com/luxurylaunches/status/1729168206705861016 The Koru, [reports indicate](), set the centibillionaire back a cool $500 million and [costs $137,000 *per day* to operate](), but if you're rich enough to [buy the *Washington Post*](), who's to say you can't buy one of the world's most expensive yachts and pay way more than the [average American's annual salary]() to make sure it's running every day? ## Emissions Impossible At nearly double the length of an Airbus A380, the Koru isn't just a gigantic waste of money but is also, as the [*New York Post* reported]() based on a new analysis from the University of Indiana, a major polluter as well. Using publicly-available data, Indiana anthropology PhD candidate Beatriz Barros and anthropologist Richard Wilk — who have for years been raising alarm bells about the [billionaire pollution problem]() — calculated that the Koru produces an outrageous 7,154 tons of greenhouse gasses per year. While it's not exactly shocking that the uber-wealthy are uber-polluters, these numbers do fly in the face of Bezos' purported commitment to turning back the clock on climate change, as evidenced by his [commitment to spend $10 billion]() by the end of the decade to combat its worst effects. In an [interview with *The Guardian*]() about the research, Wilk explained that luxury sailboats like the Koru are one of the most egregious ways that billionaires pollute. "The emissions of the superyachts are way above anything else," the Indiana anthropologist said. "They have to have a crew, and they have to be constantly maintained even when they are docked. Then you have the helicopters onboard, the jetskis, the high energy-using luxury items like pools, hot tubs, private submarines and tenders, all of these require power, the air conditioning, the sophisticated electronic items." "It is like having a hotel running on the water all the time," Wilk continued. As media breathlessly recounts the Koru's debut, the superyacht that's too big to be docked normally will continue to spew carbon into the atmosphere at a far greater rate than the average Joe — but hey, at least it reportedly has a [sculpture of Lauren Sanchez]() aboard. **More on Bezos**: [*Jeff Bezos' Moon Lander Design Just Got a Big Downgrade*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. 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