Certain wealthy individuals have always had one eye on a coming apocalypse - and now those plans are being put into action At the turn of the year, as the coronavirus pandemic started to wreak havoc across the globe, nowhere was safe.
Well, nearly nowhere. Some 50 owners of super yachts found themselves conveniently moored in the pristine waters of the Caribbean, self-isolating in style.
Roman Abramovich’s 533ft mega-yacht, Eclipse, and Ernesto Bertarelli’s similarly ostentatious cruiser, Vava II, were both reportedly spotted in the region.
In March, the US billionaire David Geffen posted an update from aboard his 454ft superyacht, Rising Sun. ‘Isolated in the Grenadines avoiding the virus,’ the 77-year-old wrote in an Instagram post