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Dorsett Consolidated Mining Limited.Based in Sydney, Australia, <strong>and</strong> owned by the Dorsett<br />

family, it is second only to De Beers as the world's largest diamond producer.<br />

Dorsett Headquarters.A Trump Towers-like building in Sydney, Australia, paid for in cash. Arthur<br />

Dorsett's office is a gigantic vault <strong>with</strong> a steel door <strong>and</strong> walls two meters thick. Hundreds of precious<br />

stones are displayed in black velvet cases, <strong>and</strong> the estimated worth of the stones is one-point-two billion<br />

dollars. His desk is a huge monstrosity of polished lava rock <strong>with</strong> mahogany drawers.<br />

Dorsett manor house.Built <strong>and</strong> designed by Anson Dorsett, who tore down the original log structure<br />

topped by a palm frond roof. The style is based on a classic layout-a central courtyard surrounded by<br />

ver<strong>and</strong>as from which doors open into thirty rooms, all furnished in English colonial antiques. The only<br />

visible modern conveniences are a large satellite dish rising from a luxuriant garden <strong>and</strong> a modern<br />

swimming pool in the center courtyard.<br />

Dorsett Rose.A D-grade flawless diamond <strong>with</strong> tremendous luster that was discovered by a Chinese<br />

worker at the Gladiator Isl<strong>and</strong> mine in 1908. Weighed 1,130 carats before cutting. Weighed 620 carats<br />

after. Double-rose cut in ninety-eight facets to bring out the brilliance. Arthur Dorsett has it inside his<br />

office.<br />

Dorsett yacht.Wilbanks estimates the length to be somewhere in the neighborhood of thirty meters<br />

<strong>with</strong> a beam of about ten meters. Probably powered by a pair of Blitzen Sea storm turbo diesels, most<br />

likely BAD 98s, which combined would produce more than 2,500 horsepower. Estimated cruising speed<br />

is in the neighborhood of seventy knots. A sleek sports cruiser <strong>with</strong> twin hulls <strong>and</strong> a smooth rounded<br />

design. Built by Jusser<strong>and</strong> Marine in Cherbourg, France. Has a sapphire-blue hull. Merchant later<br />

discloses that the yacht has four turbocharged diesel engines connected to water jets that produce a total<br />

of 18,000 horsepower <strong>and</strong> enable the eight-ton craft to cruise at one hundred <strong>and</strong> twenty kilometers an<br />

hour. The yacht has Casale V-drives.<br />

Dunhill,Alex<strong>and</strong>er.One of the partners who own Carlisle & Dunhill.<br />

Duo 300 WetJets.Type of personal watercraft owned by Mason Broadmoor made by Master craft<br />

Boats. The craft feature a V-hull <strong>and</strong> a high-torque, modified big bore long-stroke engine <strong>with</strong> a<br />

variable-pitch impeller. Their estimated top speed is close to sixty knots.<br />

Duse Bay.Location of a British research station where the survivors of the Polar Queen are to be

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