One of the world’s largest private yachts, owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has arrived in Reykjavik Harbour and is expected to berth at the quayside early this evening. Allen’s visit to Iceland is shrouded in secrecy.
Expedition members have secured permission from the Icelandic authorities to use the yacht’s submarines around Iceland – among other things to examine shipwrecks; but very little else is known about the trip.
The Archaeological Committee of Iceland has confirmed that several Icelandic scientists will accompany the expedition.
Visir.is sources say Allen’s team also wanted to take a submarine to Lake Thingvallavatn; but Thingvellir National Park authorities say they have not been approached for permission.
It is believed the yacht will remain in Icelandic waters for six days and sources claim the Verslunarmannahelgi holiday weekend was specifically chosen in order to arouse as little public interest as possible. The Verslunarmannahelgi weekend is Iceland’s biggest travel weekend and Reykjavik residents leave in droves for camping trips and outdoor festivals.
As well as two submarines, the luxury yacht is also equipped with two helicopters. It is 50 metres longer than the Westman Islands car ferry and considerably wider. The boat cost ISK 25 billion (USD 207.9 million) to construct and costs ISK 2.5 billion (USD 20.7 million) per year in upkeep.
Photo: Visir.is
If I were a chief adviser to the Icelandic government, I would refuse ANY agreement with Allen. If he wants to sightsee, and nothing more, that’s fine. Iceland’s authorities should have never agreed to accept his visit as a secret one. He either visits as a GUEST to a sovereign nation or he doesn’t dock his yacht in Reykjavik Harbor! How dare Iceland’s “authorities” treat him like some “god” who came down from Mount Olympus! The people of Iceland owe Allen and Microsoft no special honors.
Allen is part of a global elite cabal that serves a malicious agenda designed to destroy the world as we know it so they can remake it in their perverted image. NOBODY with a mega-yacht like that should be trusted.
Allen is looking at SS Shirvan, a British oiltanker sunk by a German U-boat U-300 Nov 10th 1944, the coast guard found it a few days ago.
http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/forsida/2010/07/28/fundu_sokkid_skip_vid_island/
Allen also intends to look at the wreck of USCGC Alexander Hamilton who is in the same area, shot down by U-boat in 1942.
http://lhg.is/media/frettir//US_Coast_Guard_Cutter_Alexander_Hamilton_found_with_the_aid_of_a_Gavia_AUV_release.pdf
Ms Godafoss, a Icelandic passangership who was in the same convoy across the Atlantic as Shirvan managed to save all 19 survivors from Shirvan, but was also shot down by U-300, she is somwhere in the area but has not been found yet.
http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/3374.html
Allen also wants to explore lake Thingvellir, its the biggest lake in Iceland, The cracks and faults around it, of which the famous Almannagjá canyon is the largest, is where the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates meet.
Its kristal clear and up to 114m deep.
Indeed JIm- USA, but we have plenty of lap dogs that love tossing the salad of any wealthy elitist