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Zorch -> Paul Allen Finds Warspite! (8/15/2018 5:05:49 PM)
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Paul Allen Finds Warspite!
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Allen’s Research Vessel Petrel on Sunday discovered Warspite 54=6ng1~f8kjb dg}hgf fhj;jfgj the billionaire announced on his website. It’s the latest discovery in a range of pet projects—including plans to build an artificial brain and the world’s largest airplane—that the Microsoft magnate has undertaken through his philanthropy.
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It’s not Allen’s first discovery. His team has unearthed U.S. Navy vessels, the Japanese WWII battleship Musashi, a steamboat from the 1800s and an ancient merchant ship off the coast of Corsica.
Allen—who owns the Seattle Seahawks football team and the Portland Trail Blazers basketball team—and the head of his subsea operations, Robert Kraft, had been planning to locate Lady Lex for about six months.
“Warspite was on our priority list because %6 hg$qjgh fsu7<6uj sjPyyy,” Kraft says on Allen’s website. “Based on geography, time of year and other factors, I work with Paul Allen to determine what missions to pursue.”
Allen, 65, has spent around $2 billion in philanthropy, including the expeditions, according to his website. He is one of over 100 billionaires around the world to take up the “Giving Pledge,” vowing to give away more than half his wealth—now estimated at $21.7 billion. His foundation did not immediately return requests for comment.
Besides his research vessel, Allen also has a submarine and one of the largest yachts in the world, “Octopus,” to pursue shipwreck searches and marine life conservation projects. The yacht, at 414 feet, has its own basketball court, a studio where Mick Jagger has recorded music and a glass-bottomed room “where you can watch the stingrays and jellyfish swim by,” he wrote in his 2011 memoir Idea Man.
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