[Citizen Zed]

Hahahahaha! Oops!

[Jeff Chandler]

Oopsie!

[r_barton]

It’s the Anchor Baby!

[jobim]

He has a house in Kona, Big Island of Hawaii, and frequently we see that massive ship anchored in Kailua Bay. His home is just onshore.

[Vendome]

Only two helicopters?

Pfffft!

[BeauBo]

I think that the blue one is Octopus, and the little white one is Tatoosh.

It can be a bother keeping track of them all sometimes...

[crazyhorse691]

If you want to catch big fish you use big bait...the bigger the boat, the bigger the bait you can use. Depth charges come to mind with this little rowboat.

[r_barton]

Maybe the anchor is controlled by Windows software. ;-)

[Ken H]

Nice shootin’, Tech!

[Liberty Valance]

LOL!

Loggins & Messina - Be Free & Growin'

[gunsequalfreedom]

Not one but two helicopters.

[Mr Apple]

http://www.superyachttimes.com/yachts/

[Travis McGee]

Some zillionaires do care about the environment.

[Moltke]

support for research to (...) restore coral reefs

Well, in order to restore, one must first destroy. Step one accomplished!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Oh, the amusing irony. When I’ve seen Allen in the news before, he’s always tried to play himself up as an Environmentalist. He launched something last year to study coral reefs in an effort to build up his environmental credibility. His giant yacht destroying coral reefs is going to make that a little, uh, awkward.

[central_va]

Just turn it off and turn it back on.

[central_va]

Microsoft needs more H-1B’s because domestic tech help is soooo expensive.

[NorthMountain]

Yacht?

Give her a gun and some VLS cells, and she’s a Frigate.

[Tallguy]

Let’s not get our panties in a wad about this accident. The government of Grand Cayman has recently decided to deliberately destroy a reef to put in a deep water cruise ship pier. But of course that deliberate damage will be done after filing all the appropriate “impact studies” as well as touching all the other bases required by the enviro-whackos.

[DoodleDawg]

I was Roman Abramovich's Eclipse anchored off Antigua last week. That makes Allen's look like a tug boat.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

There is a known technology that radically increases the growth of coral in coral shallow water, even if there is nothing there but sand.

It was discovered that a small electrical current passing through cable is very attractive to coral microorganisms that latch on to the cable and reproduce much faster than normal.

So an idea was proposed to lay a large grid of cable just offshore in a sandy tidewater area, with two sections of cable going ashore where they are attached to a resistor and a car battery. So little electricity is used that a single charged battery will last most of a month before being replaced and recharged.

Sure enough, within a year or two, the grid was mostly covered with coral, in a process much faster than naturally. And with the coral came a surfeit of life.

So a good question is why hasn’t this technology appeared in all sorts of places prone to coral but currently without it?