welcome to Tarragona in Spain so we're about an hour outside of Barcelona
and you can see there's a big elephant in the room here or a big darth vader helmet
and this is m/y Crescent yeah that motor yacht Crescent so this boat is one of the two boats
that have been tied to Vladimir Putin this was known as project Thunder when it was built
built by Lürssen of course it's 135 meters in length 444 feet it is 9,000 gross tons it is
huge and when you when you compare it to the other vessels that are here. there are some other
considerably large vessels here but i'll show you a side on profile you can see
how much further out it sticks uh cuatrole about 90 meters which is the white boat in front here
and then you've got Crescent sticking out the back in the background there
quite incredible very unusual colour scheme as well this boat has been here since the 21st of
november 2021 according to AIS so the AIS was switched off as the vessel was coming into
this marina and that's how i know what days because that's still registered on the AIS
and the vessel tried to leave here on the 4th of March and was denied leaving because they
were unable to confirm who the owner was so the vessel's been stuck here ever since so it's been
arrested whilst the authorities look at paperwork to find out who the owner is that was on the 16th
of March it was arrested and i've been unable to find any news to suggest that the vessel has been
allowed you know it's been told it's free to go i suspect it's going to be here for quite a while
as we're walking along the marina here you can see the boats behind me here you've got quatrola here
you've got illusion plus here and you can see that there's a barrier here to stop the peasants like
me from going too close to the boats right it gives the crew or it's a working area because
you know it can be potentially dangerous with the lines if a line breaks off and there's a lot of
people standing there and something happens so there's a working area but you can see
the guys working on the boats and that is normal that's a normal
marina that normal up the operating procedure in a marina right not all marinas have this
this barrier Monaco for instance is a good example of one that doesn't have it you can go right up
as close as you want but you like i said you can see what's going on in the boats because there's
no you know they've got nothing to hide and then you get and then you get to Crescent over here
and you can walk up to a point but then there's this barrier here
and the barrier is blocking so you can't stand behind the vessel like you can
with the illusion plus or Quattrolle for example you can't stand behind it and just you know watch
what they're doing or or you know just be nosy you can't do it they've put up this barrier and
i've never seen that before on any boat in any marina obviously i've not been to every marina
but i've never heard of any situation where the the the people are so paranoid about people
watching that they want to put up a barrier to block you from being able to see what's going on
i mean that goes towards the secrecy that we've been talking about with these vessels
so while i was filming earlier there was a crew member from this vessel waiting by the
gate there's a there's like a gate system in place so you can't get too close but you can see where
i'm standing now this barrier here every now and then there's a gate where people can access when
they've got access codes they can get through and the girl was waiting by the gate for delivery and
there was a couple and she went up to the girl and asked her do you work on this boat and and
do you like working on the boat and the girl said i'm sorry i can't talk about it so i can imagine
the amount of briefings that the crew have had now about not speaking to anybody about the vessel
so if you look here the nameplate of the yacht it should be here i mean it's underneath it's covered
probably by a canvas cover but if you look down the side of the vessel most vessels will have the
name on the side of the vessel somewhere along there there's nothing on this boat i mean it's
painted in what looks like black and a gray colour and there's no signs on it at all of
you know registry or name of the vessel nothing at all like i said it is a requirement to have
a name plate and it does have one but it's covered permanently by the looks of it and i
said like i said this barrier is here blocking you not from this angle though how bizarre
so even down to so the capstan here who's got their lines on it to the two Crescent
and they've got this barrier around around it goes right up to the edge so so even people who are
allowed in here who can't come down from another boat and walk in here so they've got the little
barrier up there it's quite peculiar the capsule's inside that barrier so it's it's being blocked
from anyone from accessing it which is very unusual and it also gives you an idea how
long they've been here as well the fact that they've put things up like this because it's not
something that you would normally do but it is it's quite peculiar really
they've built this little prisoner around their vessel the secrecy between this and the other
boat project lightning is well documented now as i mentioned in a previous video
a guy got in touch with me who'd been interviewed for a job on Sheherezade which was which is
project lightning this is project Thunder and the captain of the vessel was was all about secrecy he
liked the fact that the guy didn't mention his previous yachts by name when he was interviewed
uh which is kind of normal when you go for an interview you they'll ask you where you worked
before you tell them which yacht you worked on and what you did and and the idea that they they were
happy that he didn't mention the names of the boats he worked on just the sizes of the boats
because of the level of secrets of them that they've got around this vessel
so yeah there's only one reason really for being so secretive isn't it that's because you don't
want really don't want the people to know who the owner is so that is quite curious in itself
and the fact that i just can't get over the color scheme of this vessel and the fact that
every time i look at it i think of darth vader's helmet it's definitely a star wars helmet inspired
the designer of this vessel on this up on the high deck there behind these
big antenna domes there is a helicopter landing pad and a helicopter hangar as you can see in the
in this footage that i shot earlier so there is a space on here for at least one helicopter
all right guys i'm gonna i'm gonna wrap it up here um i hope you enjoyed this video
a little bit like the previous video we did in Gibraltar coming to visit an actual boat
that we've been talking about on the channel over the last couple of months
as soon as i get some updates on this vessel i will pass them on to you if you work on this
vessel or have you worked on this vessel or if you know someone or if you've got information
about this vessel please get in touch through the normal ways for the about page of my youtube
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