---
title: "This Megayacht Doubles As a Water Park"
description: "Bringing water slides to the teak deck set."
date: "2016-07-07"
modified: "2016-07-07"
authors:
  - name: "Ben Keeshin"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/ben-keeshin"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/4312/this-megayacht-doubles-as-a-water-park"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "boats"
  - "Yachts"
---

# This Megayacht Doubles As a Water Park

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Enterprising yachting company MC Yacht—its owners’ refrain, *Don’t touch this*—just announced something overwhelming: the Ocea Nemo Sport Utility Yacht, [a megayacht incorporating the best aspects of a water park](<https://www.oceanemo.com/>) into its hull. (Even for a world that heartily embraced the Cronut, that’s a novel combo.)

After all, yachts are for billionaires who enjoy having every need attended to by courteous, white-suited staffers. Water parks welcome anyone who can find $19.99 between the couch cushions, where the only staff consists of stoned-out high schoolers serving as "lifeguards." Still, both trade in the joys of swim trunks, water, and sun, and even the stuffiest of the super-rich aren’t immune to the thrills of the water slide. Additionally, because one should never settle for mixing only two metaphors, the company is also calling the [Ocea Nemo](<https://www.oceanemo.com/#concept>) the “[SUV of Yachts](<https://www.thedrive.com/design/4120/the-black-swan-is-a-229-foot-yacht-made-for-a-supervillain>).” Don’t most ultra-luxury boats ( which are vehicles) already combine “sport” and “utility”?

![070716-oceanemo-mega-yacht-art-1\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/070716-oceanemo-mega-yacht-art-1_0.jpg>)
**OCEANEMO**

Even setting the gimmickry of the yacht-board water park aside, the [Ocea Nemo Sport Utility Yacht](<https://gtspirit.com/2015/12/27/superyacht-sunday-fun-filled-ocea-nemo-44-suv-megayacht/>) concept does offer some impressive features. The craft is 144 feet long—but made of aluminum, to add lightness. Within that silvery structure sits a large pool and adjacent beach club, a Jacuzzi, a full gym, and a master bedroom that clocks in at twice the size of a Manhattan studio apartment. The Ocea Nemo will also provide customers the option of adding 25 different big-boy toys; optional equipment includes sailboats, submarines, ski boats, amphibious ATVs, trampolines, hovercraft, seaplanes, hot-air balloons, snowmobiles, and helicopters. Basically, all the kit your average playboy millionaire would have at his vacation home. Our favorite? The optional rock-climbing wall, which can be cantilevered out over the water. That way, climbers could scramble around unharnessed, their falls ending harmlessly in a refreshing ocean dip.

In terms of “utility,” the Ocea Nemo will have a 4,000-mile range and a cruising speed of 12 knots. The price? Less than €20 million—at least, before you spring for the hovercraft.

![070716-oceanemo-mega-yacht-art-2\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/070716-oceanemo-mega-yacht-art-2_0.jpg>)
**OCEANEMO**

![070716-oceanemo-mega-yacht-art-3\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/070716-oceanemo-mega-yacht-art-3_0.jpg>)
**OCEANEMO**

![070716-oceanemo-mega-yacht-art-4\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/070716-oceanemo-mega-yacht-art-4_0.jpg>)
**OCEANEMO**

## Author
Ben Keeshin is a former staff writer for Maxim, and before that, contributed writing to the digital sides of Road & Track and Vanity Fair.

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/BnKshn>)