this is super yacht news with eSysman
hi welcome back to the channel so in april this year i made a video
where i talked about 2 super yachts that had been applying to get a new flag state
so obviously everyone knows a ship has a flag on the stern the flag is of the flag
state many yachts have what they what is known as a flag of convenience usually Cayman Islands
or Malta or places like this the biggest one by far is Cayman Islands one of the vessels
that i mentioned at the time was "motor yacht A" had lost her flag state when she was deregistered
by the Isle of Man around about april time and this was because of the invasion of Ukraine and
the sanctions that followed many of the Russians who own these superyachts Andre Melnochenko the
owner of m/y A and sailing yacht a had a problem in that well first of all sailing was arrested
in Trieste in Italy but it still is today and m/y A was out in the Maldives it disappeared
off ais stop broadcasting hasn't broadcast for 3 months now and ended up in Razalqaima
now m/y A is you know often mentioned in the comments section as looking like a submarine
or looking like a Bond villain jet and in keeping with that image the vessel was
reportedly shattered by an Iranian warship as it sailed up to the United Arab Emirates
before it docked in Rasalqaima the loss of the flag state meant that the vessels effectively
couldn't go anywhere now around about the same time the lloyds register and the dnv which are
both classification societies decided that they were going to decertify most if not all
of Russian-owned superiots so the Lloyds and DMV are there are classification society as i said
and they inspect vessels as they're built and every five years and they certify them as being
up to a certain standard right and that's just so the vessels can be insured so they can go out
and do their thing right these 2 registers that i mentioned lloyds and dmv they are the biggest
registers in the world when it comes to super yachts and being decertified by either of these
obviously each yacht will have one of these and if they're deregistered then it means that they
are unable to sail legally they don't have any insurance and that's a big problem when you have
a half a billion dollar superior right the other vessel i mentioned in this video was m/y Nord
and Nord resembles a Russian warship or some people say it looks like an aircraft carrier it
actually does resemble a Russian warship which we'll get we'll get into in a little bit
from memory i think nord was in the Seychelles and it fled to the east coast of Russia in a place
that is known as well it's known by me at least as the Russian Riviera it went to Vladivostok
this vessel Nord is 141 meters or 464 foot long and it was built by Lürssen one of the largest
yachts in the world it's 10 over 10 000 gross tons and this vessel has pretty much anything
you could imagine a super yacht to have and then probably quite a few things that you wouldn't
imagine a superhero to have here is a couple of things it has an indoor slash outdoor pool so
it it can be indoor or you can open it and extend it to be outdoor has two helicopter landing pads
one with a telescopic hanger built into it has a massive what i believe is an ec175 helicopter
with a blade folding kit installed which allows the blades to be folded by 2 people this allows
it to fit into that hangar it has a submarine and as many water toys as you could possibly want
and it even has multiple suvs stored ready to go on a landing craft
so the reason why i brought these 2 up is because they both now apparently re-registered
with new flag states nya apparently according to that fox business report said that it's now
flying an Emirates flag now i've not been able to confirm this and partly because
mya has not broadcast on AIS for over three months now if you are in Roswell camera right now and you
know it's there be sure to take a photograph and send it to me the the other vessel m/y Nord
is now flying a Russian flag so a few days ago i noticed on an AIS tracking site that the mmsi
number had changed now these are unique numbers to do with communications for vessel and this
number had changed and also the call sign had changed so the call sign of a vessel is registered
based on the flag state so for instance any flag that flies the red ensign that's part
of the branson group the first letter will be a zed and i noticed that the the call sign
had changed but the flag was still showing Cayman Islands but i i did also receive a notification
from Marine Traffic to say that something had changed flag state had changed and it
i think it just took a few days to propagate onto the onto their website and lo and behold now it
has a Russian flag flying on it now why is it flying a Russian flag was it seized by Russia
i think that's unlikely the most likely scenario is that the owner
has decided to re-register the vessel as a russian flag vessel so what does this mean
for m/y Nord now that it's flying a Russian flag currently there are many issues regarding Russian
flag vessels sailing pretty much around anywhere in Europe or the UK or the US or any Western part
of the world pretty much having said that it doesn't really matter what flag the vessel's
flying right now if it's Russian owned it's gonna have problems selling in those places
one of the issues that i can see going forward for nord now is that as far as i understand it
the to have a russian flag on your yacht you have to have a Russian captain
you have to have a russian chief engineer and some other positions need to also be held
by people who have Russian passports and Russian certificates of competence which is a "COC" which is
what all professionals need to have on these vessels that's one problem that i can see because
the difficulties with the crew from russia flying around or traveling around the world
because many places require Russians to have visas and some just will deny entry altogether
another problem that i can see with having a Russian flagged vessel is
is Russia now have authority over that vessel and you know many private Russian companies
have that are in Russia have been seized by the Russian state as an example Farca Akhmadov
the owner of m/y Luna he had a Russian oil company he had an oil company in Russia
and that was seized 51 % of it was seized by the Russian state or one of the Russian oil
companies took it over and forced him to sell the remainders of his shares in that company
so this could now happen to those yachts but when you look at it for what's happening in
the western side that is also happening uh with Russian owned jobs so yeah so there are problems
that i can see with having a Russian flag but also it's kind of offset by the fact that this
is the same thing that's happening because of the sanctions placed on many of the owners
if you want to see more about m/y Nord by the way check out this website i'll place a
comment i'll place a link in the in the about section it's it's by highsutton.com he's created
this webpage and it tells you about nord he's also created this amazing graphic of like a blowout
of m/y Nord and all of the toys that it has on board and he has a has a photograph of of the
yacht next to a Russian warship an old russian warship there's lots of information in there
photographs of the interior some of them that i've used here tonight and there's a lot of information
there's a fascinating web web page and and reads so be sure to check that out he didn't ask me to
do this i just saw it and i thought it was really interesting okay so let's move on i've got 2
more things before i finish the first one is a quick update on m/y Amadea you i'm not
even going to do a backstory on this boat Amadea now in control of the Americans flying a U.S. flag
heading away from Fiji with a U.S. marshals FBI on board and a crew hired by the us to take it
back to u.s territory from what i can see on the on AIS it looks like something i said when
it first left that it's a possibility but i said it was far too early to tell but it does now look
like the vessel is heading to hawaii so keep checking back in with me and i'll keep you updated
until it gets to where it's going now last thing before i go tonight if you're a lover
of sailing yachts you might want to look away or go make a coffee or something because in
Tarragona today if you would happen to be down at the Marina in Tarragona you might have seen this
so this is a 60 meter supply vessel reversing for some reason and it crashed into a 45 meter
schooner Elenora E so there was apparently a malfunction on the supply vessel and was
uncontrollable and she hit the schooner that was docked behind and the yacht sank shortly after the
collision as you can see in this footage here there's no word so far on what happened
obviously it's very early to happen today and i'm sure there'll be an investigation and that
yacht will need to be recovered from this from the bottom of the of the bay there i was
thinking that it's probably the first time that something's happened in the marina in the last few
months that hasn't involved multi-yard crescent because this is the same arena where i was a
few weeks ago where filming m/y Crescent and you can see it in the corner of some of the shots
after this accident so yeah that's an unfortunate incident but there were people on board but as
far as i know nobody was hurt so that's that's a good news for that story all right i'm gonna
leave it there thanks very much for watching if you've got any information about any of the
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