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Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins
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The Caribbean is where all the beautiful people go in the winter, and their yachts predictably show up near their business associates and friends (other Billionaires).

You'll notice they don't hide, they have their transponders on 24x7, AIS-T and AIS-S.

The start of a recap:
🇧🇲 Bermuda-flagged 113m (~370') yacht Le Grand Bleu (IMO:1006829|MMSI:310380000|CS:ZCDF7) owned by Eugene Shvidler

#EugeneShvidler #LeGrandBleu #AIS
marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details…
🇧🇲 Bermuda-flagged 163m (~530') yacht Eclipse (IMO:1009613|MMSI:310593000|CS:ZCDX4) owned by Roman Abramovich

#RomanAbramovich #Eclipse #AIS
marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details…
🇰🇾 Cayman Islands-flagged 92m (~300') yacht Aquarius (IMO:1012866|MMSI:319107400|CS:ZGGD3) owned by Steve Wynn

#SteveWynn #Aquarius #AIS marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details…
(NB: These are yachts of the obscenely rich, often one yacht of many, and until @TMZ, @people, or someone publishes photos of the rich and famous ppl themselves, don't assume the owners are actually there; friends or family could be using the yacht too)
🇺🇸 United States-flagged 37m (~120') yacht Temptation (IMO:|MMSI:367524530|CS:WDG3291) owned by David Dyer

#DavidDyer #Temptation #JCrew
marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details…
Here's a great profile of David Dyer, a real stand-up guy, and his yacht.

He specifically flagged his yacht in the U.S.A. Well done.

superyachttimes.com/yacht-news/own…
🇰🇾 Cayman Islands-flagged 110m (~360') yacht Anna (IMO:1012983|MMSI:319138100|CS:ZGHP3) owned by Dmitry Rybolovlev.

#DmitryRybolovlev #Anna #Rybolovlev
marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details…
🇰🇾 Cayman Islands-flagged 138.6m (~450') yacht Rising Sun (IMO:8982307|MMSI:319011000|CS:ZCII7) owned by David Geffen.

#DavidGeffen #Geffen #RisingSun
marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details…
🇲🇹 Malta-flagged 90m (~300') yacht Phoenix 2 (IMO:1010284|MMSI:229617000|CS:9HA3453) owned previously by Jan Kulczyk.

#Phoenix2
marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details…
🇰🇾 Cayman Islands-flagged 78.43m (~260') yacht C2 (IMO:1009833|MMSI:319268000|CS:ZCYD3) owned by Ronald Perelman

#RonaldPerelman #Revlon #C2
marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details…
🇰🇾 Cayman Islands-flagged 73m (~240') yacht Mogambo (IMO:9560780|MMSI:319510000|CS:ZCYG4) owned by the Bin Ibrahim al Ibrahim family 🇸🇦

#Mogambo #KSA
marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details…
🇰🇾 Cayman Islands-flagged 57.93m (~190') yacht Skyfall (IMO:9586019|MMSI:319031100|CS:ZGA07) owned by ( N/A )

#Skyfall
h/t @mopeng !
marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details…
🇰🇾 Cayman Islands-flagged 50m (~160') yacht Tsumat (IMO:9599676|MMSI:319937000|CS:ZGCP8) owned by Alfredo Chedraui.

#AlfredoChedraui #Tsumat
marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details…
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands-flagged 53.3m (~170') yacht Silver Shalis (IMO:1010557|MMSI:538070721|CS:V7TW8) owned by Larry Silverstein 🇺🇸

#SilverShalis #LarrySilverstein
marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details…
🇻🇬 British Virgin Islands-flagged 44.65m (~150') yacht Gladiator (IMO:1010569|MMSI:378326000|CS:ZJL8365) owned by Google's Eric Schmidt looks she's getting company... maybe Eric Schmidt :)

marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details…

The view from @MarineTraffic of #StBarts where all the beautiful people are gathering for NYE.

That's a lot of yachts.

That's a lot of money.

I wonder how the American intelligence agencies are keeping tabs on it all? From a sub? U-2? Hm.
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The US delegation, for absolutely no technical or treaty-related reason, refuses to certify the new Tu-214, that uses the exact same digital camera as their Tu-154, used in 2017.
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The thin purple line over water is the limit of any country's airspace airspace
My ugly blue line represents NATO.
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🇷🇺 Russian seismic research vessel Akademik Primakov (MMSI:273392760) is certainly looking for something in the Kara Sea at 5kn. (Before you get too excited, it could be mapping the Arctic shelf, to aid in Russian claims to it.)
thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-an…
h/t @nobit7
🇷🇺 Russian Project 21900M icebreaker Vladivosok (MMSI:273376280) has dropped anchor in the Kara Sea. I guess that's cheaper than burning diesel moving the largest non-nuclear icebreaker in the Russian fleet around...

sputniknews.com/russia/2016121…
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...but that doesn't really prove anything; it's an icebreaker after all.

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