this is "Super yacht News" with "eSysman"
all right guys welcome back to the channel big news day today - i'm gonna get straight
into it so "m/y Crescent "a vessel that i talked about pretty recently in a video entitled is this
"Putin" superyacht has been arrested in Spain so the vessel is in Tarragona in Spain which is
near Barcelona and the vessel's been there for quite a while actually it's been there since
the 2nd of November last year and yeah it was arrested today by Spanish authorities- this is a
couple of days after the Spanish prime minister "Pedro Sanchez" said that more vessels
will be arrested -after those there was a rash of vessels yesterday or couple of days ago
that got arrested and he said more was to come and this is obviously one of those -
now the vessel is 135 meters in in length or 444 feet - it was delivered by "Lürssen" in 2018 and
it's 9 ,200 gross tons so it is a big yacht it's one of the biggest yachts in the world -she
actually requested to leave on the 4th of march but she never did and we don't know why -
but it's possible that they never receive clearance to leave- the vessel has been linked
to Vladimir Putin himself via his right hand man Igor Sechin who's known as the de facto deputy in
Russia - Putin appointed him as the Chairman of the Russian State oil company "Rosneft " in 2004.
so the superyacht was detained -it wasn't an arrest like Dilbar was arrested -so Dilbar was arrested
because they connected it with "Alisher Usmanov" and they arrested it for that reason -this
has been arrested for the opposite reason because they've been unable to determine who
actually owns this vessel so they've arrested it until the vessel can provide
evidence that shows that it is not owned by "Igor Sechin" because he's been sanctioned by the EU
or whoever is on the list that can be proved that he actually does own it and the and that
is not already sanctioned as well but a source in the Spanish police say it's "Igor Sechin's" yacht
according to "Reuters" -and a spokeswoman for the Tarragon marina where the vessel is -she told
Reuters that "Crescent" was registered in the name of a Non-russian company but she declined to say
the name of that company -the classification society for "Crescent" is the DNV which is
pulling certificates for all vessels that are owned or are the beneficial owner of of Russians
so "m/y Crescent" has a sister ship which i mentioned in my video a few days ago i'll put a link up here
"Is this Putin's super yacht?" now these 2 vessels are very closely linked and probably they'll find
that both vessels are linked to the same people although on paper maybe they have different names
but they're all linked to back to "Igor Sechin" -so when "Crescent" was in build it was
it was called project thunder which i mentioned in the previous video and it's a sister ship
to "Scheherazade" was project "lightning" -"Crescent" was project "Thunder" "Thunder and
Lightning" they were built a few years apart so it was i think it was 2 years difference-
between the one first one starting the build and the second one- they're very similar designs if
you look at if you get a picture of each- they're very similar- the way the funnels are and the
way the "v-sats" are and stuff like that a lot of the design features are similar -obviously one is
painted black and one that's painted white another thing that they share is the very secretive
behavior by the management companies and by the captains and stuff like that and
in actual fact that the AIS was switched on as the vessel approached the marina in Tarragona- now this
is not normal practice - switching off AIS as you enter a port that's not something that boats
generally do so no ordinarily you never switch off ais you just leave it on it's a thing that
runs in the background it's always got power - it's just on all the time and it's broadcasting
and that's it and people just leave them alone but these vessels are switching them off purposely
i mean even before they got to the destination they switched off which you're not supposed to
do but it's not about the fact that you're not supposed to do it's about the fact
that it's very strange behavior for a vessel to do that - so going back to the secrecy -
So, somebody contacted me who had an interview on "Project Lightning"
which is the sister ship to "Crescent" this goes back to what i was saying about the secrecy
and he i'll just read out what he told me- He said "I spoke to the build captain during the build- I
had to sign a non-disclosure agreement before entering the vessel to talk to him and after
the interview the captain told me that he really liked that i did not reveal my previous owners
when he asked who i'd worked for and the captain then told me that there is the same situation with
m/y Lightning" and the captain said "the owner is very confidential and goes as high up as you can get" -
okay guys so in other news doing some catch up with some of the vessels we've been tracking
so "m/y Nord" if you'll remember "Nord" 141 meter vessel - it's owned by "Viktor
Mordechov" who's been on the sanctions list the vessel was in the Seychelles
which is in the east Africa -region of the Indian Ocean and the vessel is believed -i
believe the vessel is heading to Vladivostok in Russia and the vessel is heading east now
it's passed through the Maldives and it looks like it's heading to the Straits of Malacca
so what i just wanted to do - this is for the crew of "Nord and Amadea" because i believe
"Amadea" is heading to the same place -so this is a weather check for Vladivostok : -so the weather in
Vladivostok tomorrow is a high of zero degrees and a low of minus 16 degrees so that's something to
look forward to - As speaking of m/y Amadea has been heading west southwest from the Caribbean
down to Panama they are they have arrived at the panama canal now and they're waiting
for their transit spot so i don't know whether you know but with the Panama Canal obviously you've
got a lot of you've got a very small narrow canal and then you've got a lot of boats waiting to go
through in both directions when you get there you don't just go straight in you have to wait
for your slot there's a bottleneck on both sides so they're sat there waiting now and i
do suspect that they're most likely that they'll switch off the AIS when they get on the other side -
in other news "m/y A" -so you remember a few days ago "Sailing Yacht A" was arrested in Trieste in
Italy? - while it was in dry dock the vessel then was subsequently deregistered by the "Isle of Man flag State"
so they basically said you no longer fly our flag you've been deregistered- now "m/y A "
Melinchenko's other boat one that he had built in 2008- it looks like a submarine or a spaceship
that vessel was also registered in the "island man" - in a previous video i said it was
UK registered but it turns out it also had an "Isle of man" registration- i got a photograph
sent to me from about 4 weeks ago that shows the "Isle of man" registration now-
back in the day it had a Hamilton written on the back and and it was from Bermuda right ?
so for some reason Melonchenko changed the registration of both boats from Bermuda
to the "Isle of Ma"n so the vessel was last tracked on AIS in the Maldives um 6 days ago and then
they switched off the AIS - and i've been contacted today by a few people to say that it's being
seen in the Gulf of Oman area around Dubai or around Oman and it's an unconfirmed report
that they were denied fuel they went in there / to try to bunker and they were denied bunkering
that denied any fuel - i haven't been able to confirm this but that's the report that i got.
i also heard that they're also possibly looking to re-register the vessel out in that
area- i don't know who they would register with out there but they're looking to do that now it's it's
quite possible i don't know this yet but it makes sense that if they've deregistered "sailing yacht A"
then they possibly do registered "motor yacht A" -well so it would be very difficult for a vessel to even
dock in a port without because when like i said in another video when you dock in a port you have
to show your your registration certificates and your insurance and all that stuff so it
might have even been being denied docking for those reasons -all right guys in other news the
newest vessel in the Imperial fleet has arrived in Monaco today -it doesn't look like there's too much
outdoor space on this vessel -all right guys and lastly thanks very much for the footage- some
of the footage you've been watching here's from Gibraltar yachting channel -he's a youtube channel
he's got some great footage on there be sure to check him out and - subscribe to his channel
you want to see the full videos of these boats coming in and out he's in a great position there
because you have their boats leaving the for the caribbean at one time of the year and then
coming back to the med and he's always there to film them so check out his channel and subscribe
and tell them i sent you -all right guys i'm gonna leave it there if you've got any information about
any yachts be sure to contact me through Instagram or through the about
page of the youtube channel -alright guys thanks very much and i'll see you soon bye