Everyone thinks a $4,800,000,000 yacht exists but it actually is an urban myth

Even today, if you google ‘most expensive superyacht in the world’, you’re probably going to find lists that start with a yacht called History Supreme.

But that’s a boat that doesn’t exist.

And it never existed.

And there’s one thing about this hoax that’s a dead giveaway.

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These are the biggest and most expensive vessels in the world

Azzam, owned by the Abu Dhabi royal family, is the biggest yacht in the world.

That’s easy to establish because numbers are numbers, and when it comes to size Azzam (pictured below) dwarfs everything else.

The situation is not as straightforward when it comes to the most expensive yachts in the world, because unlike size, which is indisputable, those numbers are always ‘reported’ and not exactly advertised.

Azzam reportedly cost $605 million to buy but, interestingly, it’s potentially not the most expensive.

Some say that title belongs to Eclipse, owned by Roman Abramovich.

According to some sources, Eclipse is worth 10 figures.

History Supreme – the yacht that never existed

History Supreme is often described as the world’s most expensive yacht, and the articles and videos that talk about it often mention an unnamed Malaysian billionaire as the owner.

So far, so plausible.

But it all falls apart quite quickly when we mention the reason behind this absurd price.

There are people in the world who could afford a $4.8 billion boat, but pricing a vessel at nearly $5 billion would be the same as pricing a hotel room at $1 million.

Just because some people could afford it, it doesn’t automatically make it viable.

But that’s not the main problem, because the biggest giveaway this boat isn’t real is the material it’s supposed to be built with.

According to several sources that mentioned History Supreme in the past, it is supposedly made of gold and platinum.

There’s a reason why most superyachts are made of fiberglass and aluminum.

Gold is about 20 times denser than water, and adding gold to the hull of a yacht would (at least) double its weight: it just wouldn’t float.

Still, the name is pretty cool.

So maybe one day somebody should build a yacht called History Supreme.