
Mega Yachts: The Latest Craze for Billionaires
Superyachts have become the ultimate status symbol for the world's richest people, and this film tours the shipyards, marinas, and boat shows where that obsession plays out. Builders and brokers walk through vessels stacked with helipads, submarines, IMAX theaters, and crew quarters for staffs numbering in the dozens, while designers explain what it takes to satisfy a client whose budget has no real ceiling. Interviews with yacht brokers and industry insiders lay out the economics behind a market where a single order can run into the hundreds of millions, and where owners compete as much on size and gadgetry as on comfort. The film treats its subject with a wink, letting the scale of the spending speak for itself rather than editorializing directly. Along the way it touches on the logistics of crewing and maintaining these floating estates, and the small industry of specialists who exist purely to keep billionaires entertained at sea. It is a portrait of excess told mostly through the excess itself.