this is "Superyacht NEWS" with the "eSysman"
French navy intercept and detain Russian vessel hi guys! welcome back to the channel! this is
going to be a quick video- it's a it's kind of a News Update really based on current events
for the maritime industry if you like. The first story
is the title of the video the French navy
have intercepted and arrested a cargo ship that was heading to Saint Petersburg so the
French authorities said that the vessel was arrested because of new sanctions imposed
on Russia because of the invasion of Ukraine the vessel is a Russian-flagged roll-on roll-off cargo
vessel it's named the Baltic leader and it was transporting cars from France to Saint Petersburg
so the ship set out from Normandy and it's part of the Transmorphlot fleet but according to
vessel value data its commercial manager is "PSB Leasing" a Russian company targeted by sanctions
so the the Russian State news "TAS" quoted the company as saying that the vessel had been sold
under the terms of the leasing agreement before the sanctions were imposed on its parent "PSB
now whether that's true or not I don't know and the vessel is actually still docked in
in Bologne in France so that's all i've got on that story but it's interesting that it's
you know another another vessel seized and in this instance though it is directly
as a result of the sanctions placed on Russia because of their actions in Ukraine okay so
the next story is about "motor yacht Graceful"now you might remember i did a video a couple of weeks ago
and it was about "motor yacht Graceful" leaving the shipyard in Germany and it left in at some point
it was in the middle of a refit and and all of a sudden he just left and i talked about it and i
said that you know it was possible sign that he was getting the vessel out of Germany so it
couldn't be seized because he was going to go into Ukraine right so obviously that looks like that
was exactly what happened now even though there was quite a few comments there that said otherwise
and it was just a regular occurrence that a vessel left Germany there was no story some people said
anyway that was a couple of weeks ago and the vessel hightailed it out of Germany and
went through the Baltic and went to Kaliningrad then this story came up a couple of days ago
which was that the vessel had actually run aground so some people sent me the story
and there was actual "AIS" data to back this up so if you don't know "AIS" automated information
system and it is the way we track vessels right so i use "Marine traffic" a lot to track vessels
now on i used 2 different websites to check this out "Marine traffic" and vessel finder and they both
had the vessel as running the ground the problem is it said it ran aground in the Black Sea which
is right by Ukraine so immediately i knew the story was something wrong with this story
i checked the details of the vessel it did say "Graceful" i had the same "IMO" number
which is a unique number that are given to ships when they're registered and and the fact
that the "AIS" data showed in that area the problem is "Kaliningrad" where the vessel was last seen
is in the Baltic and the Black Sea is not in the Baltic it's thousands of miles away
if you go it's 800 miles as the crow flies - you know in a straight line but obviously that's a
it's over a land mass and that's not possible and the only other way to get there is to go
through the Baltic pass Norway down through the English channel or around the Atlantic and then
through the Mediterranean and that did not do that in that period of time there were a few clues that
this was not a true story - it very quickly became obvious to me that this
was a fake story and it was very well done so the first thing was the call sign the call sign
of the vessel was "foxtrot charlie kilo papa tango november" okay so you can you
can see what that means or what it potentially means the actual coal sign
of this vessel is "uniform bravo gulf victor 8" so on the "AIS" data it shows the incorrect call sign
the next clue was the "ETA" of the vessel which was listed as the 1st of April
okay that was the number 2 but the this was my favorite
the last clue was the destination which was listed as "Anonymous"
now it's not possible to put anonymous into an "AIS" if you don't know when your vessel is
about to leave you go into "AIS" and you update it manually you type in where you're heading
how many people are on board and your and your "ETA" and then you click go and then it shows you as
what going from moored to being underway using engines and the "AIS" data is said anonymous
right so and that is more importantly other than the fact that you can't enter that into "AIS" is
it's a well-known hacking group right anonymous is a well-known hacking group so i think that it
seems to have been that the "AIS" data was hacked to show the vessel in that wrong place now what
is interesting is i i made a screen recording what you'll see and i made that screen recording at the
time and now it's been it's been erased and it shows it back in "Kaliningrad" and it hasn't .
They turned off the "AIS" when they arrived in 'Kaliningrad " it's like 15 days ago i think it says
the "AIS" data has now changed back and it shows it as entering "Clintongrad" and it shows no update for
15 days or something so they turned off the "AIS" as they entered that area and that's what it was
shown but if you look at the data here on the on this is right now as i film this video you can see
that the call sign in in on marine traffic still shows "foxtrot, charlie, kilo, papa, tango,
november" so they still got the incorrect call sign on that on that boat so which i find quite amusing
so that was a spoof story anyway guys so if you've seen this story or if you do see it online
anywhere that you know it's not actually a true story -all right guys i'm going to leave it there
thanks very much for watching let me know in the comments what you think of these stories
and oh as far as the "m/y Ragnar " is still in "Narvik" as we speak- i haven't had any
updates but as soon as i get some updates i will let you know if you are if you're in the area of
you know any information please get in touch and let me know but i can't just accept you
e-mailing me and saying this story is not true i need corroboration if you've got any details
i need something to corroborate your story so i can i can use it alright guys- thanks very much
anyway let me know in the comments what you think and i'll see you soon -alright bye-bye