this is super yacht news with eSysman hi welcome back to the channel okay on my left hand
side here or on your right you can see uh a super yacht this is in uh Curacao in the Caribbean now
this Photograph was sent in To Us by one of our subscribers he said he couldn't see the name he
couldn't see the stand of the vessel and he was curious as to the name of the vessel and also
that the vessel wasn't broadcasting AIS while it was docked so he was curious to know the name of
the yacht now just just to be on the safe side before anyone says anything it is not illegal
to turn off your AIS when you're in Port the law says that you must use it when you're underway or
a tanker anyway go back to the yacht it is a 94 meter fed ship which is 308 feet and the yacht is
called motor yacht Bliss it was delivered in 2021 at a cost of approximately 200 million dollars
now her owner this is the this is the most shocking part of this for me her owner is
a chap I couldn't say Superior fan her owner is a chap called Evan Spiegel and he was born in 1990.
that's why it's shocking to me 1990 he's 32 years old he's an American from California and he made
his money with a social media app called Snapchat you may have heard of it I've never used it I
don't use it I don't really know anything about it other than it is obviously very good for business
so yeah so it's 32 year old owner that is incredible this Photograph by the way was sent
in by Franz Franz vanderhurst and he's obviously out in Curacao right now beautiful place Curacao
used to go there on the cruise ships many years ago anyway we'll move on to our first story and
it's about motor yacht Amore Vero and we mentioned in a previous video that she was old out of the
water in laciota you can see some footage running here next to me now of the Bowser on the heart
now this boat is has been there for a year now almost a year it was arrested in March last year
by the way Amore Vero true love in Italian and the owner oh it's allegedly owned by a chap called
Eagle section who is known as the right-hand man of Vladimir Putin and the management
company that used to manage this boat Imperial Yachts they've denied that he is the owner but
The Yacht was arrested by the French government based on the fact that it is connected to Igor
session they traced the companies that the official company that owns it they traced
that company back and they said he still controls that company therefore he owns it
so the yacht was in laciota at the time in the shipyard and it's been there ever since now the
boat has hasn't moved but it's been in the wars of the entire time now we did a video a couple
of weeks ago and we said that the fact that it was pulled out of the water was very interesting
because you know there's only a few reasons why you pull a boat out of the water either because
you're going to do some work on it in the shipyard or because there's some emergency you know there's
some problem with the boat but there is another there is another reason why they can pull a boat
out of the water and that is to store it and this is this could be what's happening uh our sources
in lassiota who wish to remain anonymous they've said that the boat they haven't seen that much
activity around the boat since it was pulled out of the water other than just some basic cleaning
daily cleaning by deckhands and stuff like that so yeah but it could be the reason why it's much
easier to look after a vessel because remember if nobody's paying the bills for this boat that means
the shipyard is paying all the bills so they may have pulled that out of the water then they can
they can discharge the crew and they can just have like one person on on board at night for a
fire crew of a fire watch if it's out of the water and all of the systems are turned off then you can
store it just like putting a car in the garage in a way so that could be what's happening but anyway
we will we'll let you know when we hear more about it so we'll move on to our main story now and this
is about the the yacht that ran aground in honoloa Bay in Hawaii now this happened a week ago they
were hoping to get this boat back out of sea after a couple of days but it didn't go to plan
it is well and truly High and Dry On The Rocks there what has happened is well since the last
video that we talked about it is that the vessel has been federalized now this means amongst other
things that before moving this vessel because the area that it's in is a protected area the boat
wasn't really meant to be there although they did have a two-hour limit on boats going to that area
so he was allowed to be in the area but he wasn't allowed to be there for two nights as he said he
had been because it was federalized it meant that all the fuel and any other hazardous materials had
to be removed from the vessel before they could attempt to recover it as a result of that they've
removed almost 500 US gallons or 1700 liters of fuel and other liquids and they had to be removed
but the problem is because the boats on the Rocks they can't bring another vessel alongside to pump
it off because obviously that boat would then be on the Rocks too right so what they had to do is
they had to put barrels on board pump the fuel and liquids into the barrels and then lift the barrels
off with a helicopter and put them on the land and that's how they that's how they removed everything
they also removed some marine batteries as well got a some video here from a spokesperson from the
U.S Coast Guard so I'll play that now okay well we've actually been working on this project for
the last five days started with our contractors from I see engineering and Pacific helicopters
first they brought sorbent pads sorbent materials to put inside the vessel to catch any free product
they also put hard boom for a containment of any discharges and then for the last three days we've
had the flight operations where starting with the folks on Deck pumping any fuel oils other
products out of tanks and Machinery spaces into 55 gallon drums on Deck Of The Vessel at that point
the Pacific helicopters is airlifting those drums from The Vessel to land where they're
placed inside containment and hauled off for proper disposal we have about estimated 470
gallons of petroleum products that's diesel oils hydraulic and Lube they were all safely removed
prevented from entering the environment we also got 14 marine batteries removed from the vessel
and some other various miscellaneous maintenance and other type Hazard stuff so because the vessel
has been bouncing around there on the surf being pushed around and it's high and dry on the Rocks
there it has developed some hulls in the hole now now this is a this is the 28 meter Sunseeker
yacht which is is made of fiberglass and as it's been rolling around on the rocks it has developed
some holes and we don't know if those holes have gone right through the hull or they're just on the
outside but this is what we've we can see from the from the video footage here that it does it does
not look great does it we also had that the the stabilizers have been ripped off the vessel when
it ran aground as well have you remember those photographs that we showed a while back about
a boat called vixit that had a similar accident and you remember with the underside of that hole
looked like but that was a metal hole with metal stabilizers as well and they were still ripped off
now there were some criticisms at the time for the amount of time it took for the rescue crews
to get there but a spokesperson for the local dlnr which stands for the Department of land and
national resources they said that as soon as they became aware of the grounding the dough bar or
dobore which is the division of boating and ocean Recreation they began contacting Hawaii salvage
companies and initially it was a hope that the vessel's owner would pay for the recovery of the
yacht but he's declined to do so and we'll come back to that in a minute so on Sunday the plan
was or yesterday the plan was to wait for a high tide and hopefully be able to pull that vessel
back out to sea the rescue vessel had connected straps to the boat to be ready for when the the
tide was at its highest now we've heard from the dlnr since then and they said that unfortunately
the tide wasn't that high and the boat wasn't able to be moved and to re they weren't able
to refloat the boat and the boat is as a result still there okay so the owner of the super awesome
his name is Jim Jones he owns a yacht charter company in Hawaii now because he's declined
to pay the bill for the boat which effectively means that he is his boat will be up for Salvage
but according to a press release from the Department of London national resources the
dlnr they said that the state will Bill the yacht owner for reimbursement of the Salvage
cost and for additional staff and administrative costs and take legal action if necessary now the
bill for the recovery of the vessel stands at 460 000 US Dollars that's more than that
yacht is worth so we spoke to the super yacht lawyer for some background on this
obviously can't speak directly because it's under Hawaiian law but he said that most Port state laws
oblige vessels to carry third-party insurance covering pollution all vessels over 1 000 gross
tons must usually carry a civil liability certificate for Bunker oil pollution damage
now clearly this boat is not over a thousand gross tons it's probably more like a hundred gross tons
but he said when the owner ignores all of this there may be criminal sanctions and the salvaged
vessel or what's left of it can be sold to recover Salvage and pollution cleanup costs so yeah not a
not a good day for that yacht owner is it all right so we'll leave it there one more thing
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