this is super yacht news with eSysman
hi welcome back to the channel okay we've got a lot of stuff to go through tonight as you've
seen the title of this video we're going to be talking to the captain of the yacht
007 which capsized on the island of Kythnos in Greece - I've got a few quick stories to
go through- first one is in the last video we said that motor yacht Nord was heading to Hong Kong, the
Vessel has now arrived in Hong Kong they've had quite a lot of people contacting me saying hey
did you know m/y Nord is in Hong Kong? well yes because I actually said that the vessel
was heading there in a video from 4, 4 days ago but yeah the vessel is in Hong Kong
it's sail there from Vladivostok -don't know where the vessels go on next but I would imagine well
I'm almost certain that that is not the Final destination -employment laws in Hong Kong are
quite strict on vessel staying that I think it's about a month is the maximum stay they can have-
so anyway we'll keep you updated when the vessel moves from there but as so far she's in Hong Kong
okay so we'll move on to the next story- the 85 meter or 280 foot yacht "Amore Vero" you might
remember this story this boat was arrested or Frozen by the French authorities in March of this
year it's one of the first vessels to be Frozen- she was alleged to belong to
Igor Sechin- she did belong to him at one point, he argues that he no longer owns
that vessel but the vessel is still owned by a company that is registered in his name. sources
have told me that the vessel has possibly been to court and overturned the freezing order
on this boat as the vessel has been looking looking to tender for fuel, so they're looking
to buy fuel- they've been contacting companies saying we want to buy fuel and the companies
have been contacting others to ask if it's okay to sell them fuel - this is the way it
works now with the "know know your clients rules" and so there's a possibility that vessel
might be on the move -now we've been unable to confirm this story independently but if that is
true then that vessel could be leaving "La Ciotat" very soon we'll keep you updated on that of course
all right now there's another story which is very similar and we're kind of wondering if
these stories have been somehow mixed up but another Russian billionaire who had a freezing
order against his boat was a chap called Alexei Kuzmichev -now we mentioned this in a recent
video he has 2 boats both of them are called "Le Petit Orse" -of them is called Le Petit Orse 2"
now one of them is in Antibes I believe it's in the dried up facility in Antibes,
the other one was in "Cannes" now he appealed the arrests of both of these vessels now he's had
some good luck actually or some good fortune should I say is that the "Paris Court of Appeals "
on Wednesday ruled that French Customs moved to board and immobilised "Le Petit Orse" in the coastal
city of Antibes, in mid-march and they said it was irregular and annulled the raid so that vessel has
been technically unfrozen -now the judges decided however on the second lawsuit concerning "Le Petit Orse 2"
which was immobilised a week later in can that should have been filed in a different court so
they did not make any ruling on it now that has gone to the other course for a ruling I don't know
whether this means that vessels are going to be going anywhere soon -I would imagine if the courts
overturned it just because of a clerical error or something like that then I would imagine they
will immediately file one that doesn't have that error in and that should result in the freezing
again, but it's just a hypothesis so we'll keep you updated on whether or not that vessel leaves -
one other story before we get to the main story this is about a yacht called motor yacht Graceful
it was generally known as a yacht belonging to Vladimir Putin was in Germany in a shipyard until
about 2 weeks before the invasion of Ukraine and the vessel hightailed it out of the German
Shipyard before the work that was being carried out on it was completely finished and then it
went at speed to Kaliningrad turning off its AIS and poof disappeared right- so the vessel hasn't
been seen pretty much since then until the end of September the vessel was spotted off the coast of
Estonia with a new name- still not broadcasting AIS of course because now apparently it's
a not compulsory but the boat is registered in Russia so yeah good luck enforcing any rules
on it but the new name of this boat is "Kosatka" which translates into English means "Killer Whale"
interesting another thing I found interesting is that is the company that owns this vessel
officially is called "Argument" , so quite interesting -anyway guys onto the main story
and this is the captain of 007 he spoke to us on a phone call recently -we had over an hour
conversation with him and we're gonna go through some of it now I was planning to use his voice,
his audio to make this video a little bit more dynamic but he said that he didn't want that
so I've agreed that what I'll do is I'll read both parts and I'll just put on the screen what he says
I'll read it out and I'll put the quotes on the screen -he said that the yacht was 100% seaworthy
when she left the shipyard everything was checked thoroughly except one thing, the water maker which
needed new membranes -(now this is a reverse osmosis machine which basically takes salt water and the
water is forced through a series of membranes and that takes out all of the salt and everything and
you're left with clean water) he said there were 5 crew plus himself when the ship left the shipyard
and he also said that -this is important for later on -he also said that in the shipyard which they
apparently didn't notice until after they left the shipyard at the GPS antenna was moved and I
I think he means damaged when they when they were installing scaffolding during that yard period-
okay so we moved on to the night of the accidents he said that she was traveling from Ajina to Naxos
with a stop in Kythnos where a second captain was supposed to join in Naxos -
the yacht was heading to Bodrum afterwards with final tests were meant to be carried out but also
the vessel was due to go into a dry dock period which is kind of confusing to me so generally
after you have a shipyard period and you have changes made to certain things on board.
when you go back into the water the vessel has to have a sea trial to satisfy the classification or
and then the boat can go into operation but this seems to suggest that that didn't happen and it
was going to happen when they got to Bodrum which is where the shipyard perry was meant to happen
well so I was never able to clarify any further on that subject the
shipyard this is something that I tried to clarify a number of times on the phone call
he did he did not say which shipyard the yacht was at prior to the sailing -now we were told
by other sources that they shipyard the Vessel was in was Atlas Shipyard in Turkey .
but we asked him on numerous occasions during the phone call plus after the phone
call, I texted I was communicating with them on on a text messaging system and I contacted him 3
times , 3 separate days and I asked him please clarify the shipyard that you were in before the
accident and he never got back to me that question -anyway he said that before the
accidents the yacht had been at anchor near the island of Kythnos and was heading to Merihas which
is a town on the island of Kythnos so I asked a question when you left your previous location did
you not plot a chart on your Ectus and I asked -you have actors right? the actors is electronic chart
display and the information system it's basically a digital map it's built it's like Sat Nav for a
boat basically and he said yes, yes -we have charts we no because we were going straight and we were
on anchor previously- we use it when we are on long distance on a long distance we do that but on a
short distance we didn't do that because we were nearby we don't always plot a chart -I find that
quite shocking to say that, I think you know, you should always plot a chart especially
when you're sailing at night anyway -the question at the time of the accident there were 3 crew
plus yourself right and he said no there were five crew in total so four crew plus him and
that's contrary to a report that we saw that says that there were three decades plus the 5
he says there were 4 crew and he said one of them was a mechanic but he also said that you as
on a vessel of that size you're not required to have a mechanic or an engineer on board.
I was on the bridge -this is his quote again I was on the bridge with the deckhand he asked if
he could go to make a coffee I told him yes- there was another crew member on the stairs
on his phone and boom impact on the bulbous bow- what was the location of the impact can you send
me a chart where the impact happened- yes he said I can do that -however as of until today he has
not sent me that so I don't I can't show you on the map exactly where this impact happened
because he's never sent it to me so -so then he went on to say Kolona Beach there are rocks on
the way to Merihas, if you see the cruise liners the ferries that are going to Merihas you can
see their lines on the map, we were supposed to be over there but unfortunately on the GPS
which I assume means the Ectus, you don't see the lines of the ferries but you see it on Google Maps
but not on Ectus, so he says we were supposed to be over there where the
lines are taking the ferries to Merihas but in reality we were much closer to land
he said- I reversed immediately because I didn't want the ship to sink in deep waters because
the tanks would implode and you would have high pollution -my next question was if the impact was
on the bulbous bow, there shouldn't have been any danger of the vessel sinking as there is an
impact bulkhead after that point -I'll show you on a diagram here of what an impact bulkhead is- it
is effectively after the bulbous bow you have a bulk it that goes all the way down it's welded it
cannot be opened so I asked him why would it be sinking if you know if that bulkhead is intact
he said correct but we already had water in the lower cabins so maybe it broke something
and then we went to check and it was full of water so we didn't want to take a chance
so we went to Kolona, the sandy ground in Kolona Beach to avoid imploding the fuel tank
which would have happened at around 60 meters this is a quote -we hung the horn with all the
lights on and we grounded -why was the vessel in danger of sinking if you have so many water
tight compartments if you have 5 which he was suggesting there were five water tank compartments
and you have you have 1 filled or even 2 then the vessel shouldn't be under threat of sinking
also I was never able to establish exactly how many bulkheads there were I asked them
to send me through a general arrangement of the vessel you know a diagram and he wouldn't do it
he said he was not allowed to send me a general arrangement - I was never able to establish what
you meant by not allowed also I asked why was the no working AIS signal at the time of the accident -
initially said that it was not a requirement to have AIS so then I read the IMO statements
that "all passenger vessels regardless of size must broadcast AIS whilst underway or at anchor" he then
said the AIS unit was broken and a technician had had meant to install a new one he said that he had
to order it and he was meant to be coming along the way to install it but that never happened -
all right so I've got some other points here the captain also told me that he is not the owner of
the vessel -I don't quite understand that he says that a company owns it but we all know that a lot
of the time well almost always the boat is owned by a company they set up a company usually in the
British Virgin Islands on Cayman Islands they register the boat to that company but he says
he's not even the ultimate beneficial owner so it possibly could be a family member or
somebody else who works for him at all obviously it could be somebody who's completely unrelated
the captain also seems to suggest although he never said it specifically that the damage to that
GPS antenna meant that they were off course -now I asked them on multiple occasions are you saying
that the damage to your GPS unit meant that you were off course -he never answered that question
during our research we found a Greek newspaper that's that had a quote from the wife of the
person who we believe to be the owner of the vessel who says he's not the owner the captain and
she quoted saying that, that was the reason that they were off by 10 degrees because of the GPS
fault so that's what they seem to be suggesting although he never said that to me directly on the
phone call -now one of the things I was never able to establish I mentioned it earlier was that that
he would not tell me the name of the shipyard the boat was in having this work done on before now we
were told through reports through a contact that the vessel had been an atlas Shipyard in
Turkey however we were contacted by Atlas Shipyard and they sent a statement and they said please be
advised that what you stated about the atlas Shipyard is totally wrong information to the
public the yacht has never been to Atlas Shipyard and our clients did not provide any kind of
service whatsoever Atlas Shipyard mainly focuses on construction of tankers dry bulk vessels tugs
and live fishing vessels at the shipyard never carried out repairs Services 2 yachts in general
and also never built a yacht Atlas Shipyard mainly focuses on tankers it doesn't say the only focus
on and it says at the shipyard never carried out repair services to yachts in general and
also never built a yacht so we never said it was built there we said it was in that Shipyard but
they're saying that it wasn't now I went back to the captain and I said Atlas is saying your vessel
was never in that Shipyard so which shipyard was it but he wouldn't tell me he never told me.
I was hoping to get a lot of answers through this conversation and I think I came out the end of it
with more questions- I don't know what you think about it please let me know in the comments
down below about this -what do you think so I've tried to be as thorough as possible about what
he told me -obviously I can't tell you the whole conversation because it was over an hour and I've
tried to put in the pertinent points into this story -anyway let me know what you think in the
comments -I will leave it there it's been a long one but I hopefully it's been an interesting
one- let me know what you think if you've got any information about that story specifically about
that story if you worked in Atlas Shipyard in the past and you know that vessel was there please get
in touch or if you know where that yacht was which Shipyard it was in before- like I think
August left the shipyard if you know where it was please get in touch and let us know if you've got
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