World’s 100 Largest Yachts 2006 #98: Mduse

#98: MDUSE—198'10"

While we were told by a reliable source last summer that she’d sold and been renamed Ithaka, that deal didn’t go through, as she remains listed for $52.5 million. She’s a diver’s dream, with an incredible array of equipment in her lazarette as well as a two-person double-lock decompression chamber, for emergencies when evacuation to land-based facilities isn’t practical.

Y: 1996; B: Feadship/De Vries Scheepsbouw, Holland; N: De Voogt Naval Architects; H: Steel; E: 2/1,700-hp Caterpillars

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Specifications

• Builder: Feadship

This article originally appeared in the August 2006 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.