This is Super Yacht NEWS with eSysman
hi guys welcome back to the channel okay i'm going to tell you a little story -let's imagine for a
minute there's a super yacht it's in the United States it's in Savannah, Georgia in the dry dock.
Now there's a bit of a hunt on to find out who owns this vessel because nobody can quite find
out the actual owner's name of this yacht -as part of the investigation a group of youtubers
find a manifest of the crew members on board and when they investigate the crew
members the actual names of the crew members they find out that each member of the crew
is member of the secret service the United States! -secret service!
and a few days after this information is released onto the internet the whole crew of that vessel
disappear in the middle of the night and are replaced by another completely new crew-
That are just regular civilian seafarers -now if that were to happen -what would you think who
would you think that vessel belonged to the secret service a crew of approximately 45 to 50 people ?-
maybe more are all members of the secret service- who would you think the owner of that vessel was?-
this is exactly what's just happened in Italy with the vessel motoryacht Scheherazade- right so the actual -
the ultimate on paper ultimate beneficial owner's name has been released and his name
is Eduard Kudinatov (probably destroyed that name) (that's a very complicated name for me to pronounce)-
Now, he's a former president of Rosneft which is a Russian company a state-owned Russian
energy company- the current president of that company is Igor Sechen who's the who's regarded
in Russia as the right-hand man of Vladimir Putin - so he's not on any sanctions list - this Edward
so that's where the story should finish right because the vessel is
owned by somebody who's not on the sanctions - and then therefore (nothing to see here) -However
the crew members were identified by the "Navalny team" on youtube -they looked at the
crew manifest and they investigated each member and they found that they were all members of the
F.S.O. which is the Russian equivalent of the Secret Service -right more or less
how how would you get a crew made solely of security people and all those
people on board are all members of the F.S.O. (He's a cook plain and simple)- to make it even more crazy
a few days after that information was released just like i said in this story
all of those crew members disappeared in the middle of the night and replaced by the
other crew -the regular english-speaking seafarers in the middle of the night-
(nothing to see here please) -now this changeover of crew was actually
acknowledged by the the Italy's general confederate confederation of labor
and he said yes they were all Russians until a few days ago -Paulo Gazzani said secretary
of the confederation told "the daily beast" today the crew is made up entirely of English
so that's what's happened in the last few days it with regards to motor yacht Scheherazade.
i'll let you uh make up your own mind of who this vessel belongs to -and interestingly
if you look back at my videos- i made a few videos on this -a video called Is this
Putin Superyacht? - right if you look in that video actually i talk about this 2 crews- right there-
They have 2 crews one crew that is when when the owner is not on board they have this one
crew english speakers -regularly yacht crew- when the owner comes on board they leave and the
other Russian crew comes in -well iI mentioned this so they have 2 crews already but in the
in the New York Times they reported that the crew- this Russian crew- just left their jobs
but they didn't leave their jobs -they just rotated out -one crew for the other crew-
they did it in the night -so anyway let me know in the comments what you think let's move on-
In other news Royal Romance -mentioned it in a few times- "motor yacht Royal Romance" was in Rieka
in Croatia and it was reported in the Croatian newspapers that the vessel had been arrested or
detained in the port now the day before yesterday the vessel left Rieka and it started to sail
south down the coast and i had a few people contact me said do you think it's it's running but
i looked on AIS and i could see it was so close to the coastline of re of Croatia -it didn't
appear to be trying to flee because you would have just gone straight out to sea and headed south -
the vessel then turned and it was heading towards "Split" and i said it's probably going
there - i saw that there was a shipyard there i'm not familiar with the area so well
but then the AIS was turned off just outside of another shipyard on its port side and it's a place
called "Truegear" and that's where "Royal Romance " is and i've got some photographs from some of my
subscribers who've sent me photographs in to tell me that it's there -so it's been moved to dry dock
now the reasons for it moving i i'm not completely sure about so there's a couple of reasons
that i can think of -one is that the vessel was not arrested at all and it's been just laid
up in Rieka because like i said the alleged owner has been under house arrest in Ukraine
and it might be that they always had a slot in that dry dock for this time and then they've just
gone to dry dock -that's one explanation the other is that the vessel did have
actual threats against it by people on facebook- talking about making molotov cocktails and stuff
it's possible that they moved the vessel to that dry dock for more security because it's in that-
now it's inside of a shipyard right so that's just the two theories that i have on the reason
why it's moved but it hasn't fled as far as i know it's just gone to the shipyard -next story
is "motoryacht Nord" we've been talking about "Nord"- We've been tracking it since it left the Maldives
and i said -it must have been a couple of weeks ago now -that the vessel was headed to Vladivostok
in Russia and a few days ago it passed through the straits of Malacca- it went past Singapore -somebody
sent me a photograph- it's quite blurry but you can clearly see that is "motor yacht Nord" passing Singapore
and then she did turned to a port and now she's heading at speed 16 knots approximately
and she's heading through the South China Sea in northeast so it looks like she is heading
to where i said Vladivostok- it definitely looks like it's "Vladivostok or bust "-right
another vessel that i've been informed that it might be heading to Vladivostok
is "Motor Yacht A" now you might remember we talked about "m/y A" she disappeared in the Maldives- turned
off "AIS" she sailed all the way to Dubai with no AIS and i believe she refilled there she was also
reportedly looking for a new flag state -because the island deflagged her regardless she's heading
i'm told to Vladivostok also and then i've got one other thing before i go - in
the last video i made i talked about all the vessels that have been arrested
and i mentioned "Tango" which i said was arrested in Spain -now i had
some information come in- i've not been able to independently verify this -but it does seem to be
quite credible so we'll just put it out there and it says that the vessel was
not arrested by the Spanish authorities - it says the vessel has has not been seized or
arrested it but it is on the USA sanctions or the the owners on the USA sanctions list and as
such suppliers contractors and the insurance have stopped doing business with with the vessel but no
action has been taken by any Spanish Authorities so and there is now only a core crew left on board
to care to take a crew like on Dilbar and all the work in the refit period has
been stopped for now - that's what i've been told that so that so we'll deduct that
one from the list of arrested vessels but it is effectively arrested because it can't
get completed the work that's been carried out and it can't go anywhere-
all right guys so i'm going to leave it there let me know what you think of the
the story i told you and try not to get too political but yeah let me know l
what you think and i'll see you in the comments- all right guys
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