this is superyacht news with eSysman-
so we've got Breaking News here -a 39 meters motor yacht , has sank off the coast of Italy
so the vessel was named motor yacht Saga and it's a 39 meter or 127
foot yacht and it sank around 13:00 hours yesterday - it's just breaking now as far as i can tell
superyachttimes.com broke the story i believe happened around 13:00 hours or 1 p.m yesterday
and it happened 9 nautical miles from the coast of Catassaro Marina
the vessel was registered in the Cayman Islands but it had a had a full Italian crew and the
vessel was sailing apparently from Gallipoli to Malazzo so the yacht was delivered in 2007
as motor yacht Yuko and a steel hull and it was built by Monaco Yachting and Technologies
so not not familiar with that company -now the apparently the night before the crew reported to
the port authorities in in in Crotone that they were taking on water on the stern they sent
out a tugboat at dawn the next day and the crew were in the meantime evacuated the vessel
into a search and rescue from the italian search and rescue boat and that tug started to tow the
yacht back towards Crotone in italy but the weather worsened and the vessel started to list
heavily to starboard and eventually the vessel sank- like i said all the crew were rescued by the
search and rescue team- there was a Romanian patrol boat also in the area i'm not quite sure why they
were there in in cooperation with the Italians for some reason i'm not quite sure on that one like i
said it's still a developing story that's pretty much all the information we have right now you can
see some of the footage on screen of the vessel listing heavily over to starboard and they're
trying to tow it the tugboat is trying to tow it initially and the vessel eventually just succumbs
to the the intake of water now that's pretty much all the information i've got at this moment
we're still researching to try and find out more we'll probably bring you more tomorrow one of
the things i mentioned in yesterday's video was about the problem with Axioma -now i'm not saying
these are related at all i'm just giving you some background into that story saying that the door
the shell door -on the stern there or on the on the starboard side is under the water line right
now the problem one of the problems with the door being under the water line is if the seal fails on
that door then you start to take on water now in rough weather it won't matter whether the door's
below or above the waterline but it will make a big impact on the amount of water that comes on
if it is under the water line and even if you went into a port and the water's flat calm-
if the door is under the water line you're still going to take on water and that's the reason why
we brought that up in yesterday's video a few people said maybe it's designed
to be like that so they can just sail the boat right in but there are some boats that have
a facility where they can flood the tender garage and sail a boat in but this is not one of them
and an ankle deep water is not deep enough for a boat to sail in on anyway i just wanted to bring
that up from yesterday's story but anyway the big news there is that 39 meter yacht has sank
off the coast of Italy -now this is almost the same size as Yogi if you don't know what i'm talking
about with Yogi i did a series on that a few years ago in 2020 and it was a very similar situation in
that they started to take on water on the stern and it was believed that a seal on the on a door
on the stern failed started to take on water- this obviously we don't know what the cause of this is
but i would not be surprised at all if it comes to light that the water was coming in through a stem
door either the Sten door opened or they couldn't close it fully or the seal of the sten door failed
but anyway we'll find out at some point in the future but right now it's very early days anyway
guys i'll leave it there thanks very much for watching if you've got any information on this
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