This is super yacht NEWS with eSysman
hi guys welcome back to the channel it is the 21st of march we've got some breaking news on a yacht
seizure another vessel has been seized in the video i did last night we talked about a boat
called "motor yacht Axioma" and i i was tracking it as across the Atlantic and i
thought it was a little bit unusual because the vessel's destination was Gibraltar right
nothing really unusual about that under normal circumstances most vessels that cross over from
the from the Caribbean they stop in Gibraltar to refuel before they go into the med however
this particular vessel is owned by a chap called Dimitri Pompianski and he is on the EU sanctions
list -now in the video i did last night i said that i couldn't find any reference of him being on the
UK sanctions list and of course Gibraltar being part of the UK and not part of the EU anymore
i thought well maybe he's docking there be or the vessel is docking there because
they you know they're not on the UK sanctions list however i made a bit of a mistake and the he
actually is on the UK sanctions list now that made it even more peculiar because i was watching the
vessel approaching Gibraltar has some sources who told me that the vessel initially was not listed
as being a vessel that was due to arrive in Gibraltar other sources informed me that the
vessel was supposedly heading to Turkey where via Malta where the vessel was going to be
put laid up in Turkey and all of the crew were going to be let go in other words sent home so
it's a bit of a curious story this is the vessel docked in Gibraltar and they must have known that
the that the owner of the vessel was on the UK and EU sanctions the vessel arrived in Gibraltar
they let it dock and then immediately the vessel was boarded by authorities as you
can see in the video footage here which is from Gibraltar yachting and the authorities boarded
the vessel and the vessel was seized now you know the difference between arrested which is a genuine
use is it is technically correct use of the word arrested for a vessel vessel when a vessel
is arrested it means that it is prevented from leaving prevented from functioning as a vessel but
the crew stay on board seizure is when the vessel is physically seized they take the crew off this
and the vessel is seized by the government and it becomes property of the government that's the
effectively simplistic terms of the differences between the two terms now i was told that the
vessel had been seized but i don't know yet if that is accurate an accurate description but the
vessel has been at the very least arrested and will not be allowed to leave Gibraltar
so that's a very very curious turn of events there because like i said i was tracking it and i was
expecting it to go to Turkey so unusual but anyway vessel is now arrested in Gibraltar so
- the owner Dimitri Pompianski is 58 year old Russian and he's the owner and chairman of
a Russian global manufacturer of steel pipes for the oil and gas industry on the 8th of march he
was put on the eu sanctions and on the 15th of march he was added to the UK sanctions so just
a few days ago he was added so anyway keep it keep watching guys and i'll update you on that
as soon as i know something all right on to- the next story now "motor yacht Solaris" you remember
the story of solaris we tracked her since she left Barcelona so she was in Barcelona in refit
she left Barcelona the day before UK sanctions were placed on Roman Abramovich -
She went over to Montenegro arrived in Montenegro was intending to get fuel but didn't get fuel and
the vessel and then the owner Roman Abramovich was then added to the eu
sanctions list so the vessel turned around and left then we tracked it - tracked the vessel
heading south heading towards Turkey and then we talked last night about a curious incident with
a oil oil products tanker a Russian flag tanker and looked like possibly could have taken on fuel
but i said it was most likely unlikely that they did that because potentially the vessel
is uninsured right now i'm not sure about that because it's it's a red ensign flagship and it's
potentially had that suspended or the lawyer's certification sorry suspended not the flag
so it's possible they have no insurance so very risky maneuver to bunker right up next to
an oil tanker on your half a billion dollar vessel - when it's uninsured right potentially uninsured
so anyway the vessel today the vessel was sailing around the island inTurkey and it said scenic
cruising on it on the AIS but with the vessel eventually docked in Bodrum in Turkey and as you
can see from this video footage there were some Ukrainians who've settled this is what i was told
it was the person who sent me the footage the Ukrainians who settled in Turkey were there
to meet the vessel and they tried to prevent the vessel from docking at the at the in the marina so
you can see when the guy zooms in here you can see that there's a little rubber dinghy
with a few people in it waving flags and they are trying to prevent that vessel from docking and it
looks like the bulbous bow of the yacht is right up alongside and if you look on the port side
bridge wing you can see there's a lot of crew up there and obviously trying not to hit that boat
oh
now when i looked on "AIS" later on it looks like the vessel eventually docked on this on the on
the other side of the marina so it looks like - on the other side of the jetty should have said
so it looks like they actually backed up and went around the other side it's hard to tell
from the AIS because it could be slightly off but i think that's probably what they
did because they couldn't get the boat out of the way um so that's uh yeah so that boat is now in
Bodrüm in Turkey and "Eclipse" is bringing up the rear heading by the looks of it in the
same direction so i would imagine maybe tomorrow or the day after she will dock alongside maybe
unless she's going somewhere else but i think she's probably headed in the same direction-
all right guys on another story now we talked about "motor yacht Ragnar" she's been stuck in
"Narvik" for weeks she went up there she was sailing around in Norway for a while went into
Narvik was bordered by authorities military as well the Norwegian military boarded the vessel
they did a search of the vessel was then released however they've been stuck there
ever since because the people effectively arrested the vessel by refusing to sell
any fuel to the vessel and the vessel was stuck there for a number of weeks as we mentioned
in a previous video well the news today is that the vessel has been the government's actually
intervened they went to another company further north of Narvik and asked them to bring fuel and
as you can see in the picture here they've they've loaded feud they've bunkered fuel from those
trucks and i've been told that she'll be leaving Narvik on Wednesday so we'll i'll be sure to
update you on on that and that's pretty much it guys uh the only one other thing that came
up today i noticed there's an article in the wall street journal that's just been posted today
and it's called Russian oligarchs yachts hit the high seas and it's by a chap called Benoit Pho Khan.
I've probably destroyed the pronunciation of that name i'll put it up on the screen now if
you have been watching my channel for the last couple of weeks and you read this article it's
going to sound very familiar and that's because effectively every bit of the article has
been on my channel over the last couple of weeks and many of these stories i broke on my channel
and interestingly the chap who wrote the article actually contacted me i'll put it up on
the screen he contacted me about 7 or 8 days ago- i think it was the 14th of march he
contacted me and asked me if i could help him with some information- now i'd never i wrote back to him
but he never contacted me and then this article came out and he references in that article
my channel but he doesn't even mention it by name so yeah that's now he's passed that off as
his own article and effectively if you read that article and you've been watching my channel you'll
see that it's just all of my stories regurgitated into one article so yeah a little bit disappointed
that the Wall Street Journal would do something like that but and also the ironic thing is
is that story is actually behind a paywall so if you want to read that story on his website
or on the wall street journal's website you have to pay for the privilege -well what i would say
to that is just come here and you'll get it all for free and then and in a week's time
it may appear on the WSJ for a payment so anyway guys - i'm going to leave
it there just one one other thing just remember that there is a lot of anti-Russian sentiment in
the comments and a lot of anti-Russian sentiment out there right now and i just want to say that
not every Russian is for this war you remember the woman who went on television on the state
television in Russia and held up a banner saying no war and she was risking 15 years
in prison by doing that she did it anyway so not everybody's for it um-so just remember that
and also the crews of these vessels those guys today on "Solaris" trying to dock that vessel they
they were trying very hard to not hit that vessel that little rubber boat there with people in it
so just remember that you know the most of the people out here are just trying to do the jobs
anyway guys i'll leave it there thanks very much for watching and i'll see you soon -bye