this is superyacht news with eSysman
hi welcome back to the channel so we've got quite a lot of news to go through today.
first i wanted to give you an update on the the vessel that caught fire last week "Area sf" the
festival was called it was in Spain near Formantera and the vessel caught fire the
cause of the fire is yet unknown because of the result of the of of what happened to the vessel
it might never really be known- i i'm sure the crew have got some idea that they'll at least
know where the fire started so we'll sure to get that information at some point but
it's very too early right now so after the fire had sort of started to burn itself out the vessel
was towed by the "Salvamento Marine" the Spanish Search and Rescue and they moved the vessel and
the idea was to let the fire burn itself out and then to tow the remains of the vessel to
the mainland unfortunately however the vessel sank in this location and the vessel has to be
recovered from the seabed - it did sink in shallow waters so they're going to recover it
most likely they'll lift it put it onto a barge or a rescue vessel of some sort and then take
it to the mainland for disposal -the location where they put the vessel was off a Cap Martinet-
and i'll put the location on the screen there so i just wanted to say a couple of things a lot of
comments about this yacht and i'm not going to get into the insurance comments because even on
the video when i talked about how unlikely it was that that was the case there was tons of comments
about insurance- like apparently a lot a lot of people up there first thing they think of is
is that people set fires of their own stuff even when it's brand new.
it's very unlikely that in all likelihood the vessel could have been sold for more than it
costs to build because it takes so long to build a yacht but anyway what i did want to talk about was
a lot of comments about why wasn't it made from fire resistant stuff well the vessel would have
been made up to start up to the classification and that requires flame resistant equipment
most likely fire screen doors as well but flame resistant or fire retardant they both mean that
they resist fire longer than something that isn't fire resistant or flame retardant or whatever the
phrases- there's no there's no material out there like for cushions and mattresses and sheets and
stuff- there's no material out there that is fireproof that you cut you physically can't
set fire to an item and anything if you have a fuel fire for instance the big fire in the engine
room anything will burn in that kind of heat so it's impossible to have a fireproof vessel if
it was possible they would do it so you know that's just one thing to think about
all of these things are thought about in the build stage but you cannot you you can have a fire on a
yacht and you can do everything right you can use all of the the high fog or the sprinkler systems
the hoses the the CO2 everything and you you don't put the fire out- there are military vessels that
have caught fire and despite having hundreds of people on board trained to fight fires fire teams
you know constant training that you have in the military they've been unable to put a fire out so
you know fire is the biggest risk at sea and there were only seven crew on that vessel remember so
anyway we'll move along i don't like this phrase but i'm gonna use it what is trending right now
with Russian super superyachts- i say that because there are a couple of things going on right now
and one of them i understand completely and the other one not so much so the 2 things
that are going on right now with a lot of these sanctioned super yachts is - the first one is
re-registering to new flag states now i understand the reason why because many of these vessels
or a number of these vessels have been kicked out of their flag state because of the sanctions so
they've had to find a new flag state that makes sense the other thing that is trending right now
is changing the designation of the vessel from yacht to houseboat now that is something i don't
really understand i don't know whether it has any any legal differences in in registering
or they're just trying to hide from you know like applications that track yachts and stuff like that
by calling it a houseboat but we'll go through all the vessels that we've discovered have recently
changed flags and re-registered as houseboats now the first one and the biggest one on the list
is motor yacht Sheherezade now this vessel has been in marine de Carrara in Italy for a long time
you all know about that if you watch my channel regularly- there is a video on my channel
of the vessel in that location and you can see some of the footage i'll put it
on the screen right - now this vessel has been re-registered to Malaysia not
a place that is commonly known for registering super yachts in fact i've never seen a super
yacht registered in Malaysia and they've also re-registered as a houseboat i mean 140 meter
superior registers as a houseboat- i mean it's not it's not been showing on AIS for over 5 months
so when you go to AIS applications it still shows as being registered in the Cayman Islands because
they haven't switched on their AIS and then the minute they do it will change all that data that
they've changed- they'll have to update the AIS when they switch it back on and that data will all
get updated -another vessel that has re reflagged in the last couple of weeks is "sailing
yacht A" -now you all know "Sailing yacht A" the big most people say ugly sailing sister yacht
owned by Andre Melnerchenko now this yacht was registered in the Isle of Man and Isle
of Man were very quick to deregister sanctioned superyachts -both sailing yacht A and motor yacht A
were deregistered at the at the outbreak and especially when Melnichenko was sanctioned now
sailing yacht A has been re-registered in Sierra Leone which is another place that i've
never seen a flag from Sierra Leone on a super yacht -now if you know of one be sure to put it
in the comments but i have never seen a a super yacht registered in Sierra Leone can't
even say it so she is still in Trieste in Italy- she's still arrested i i would imagine they must
have done this before the Italians took over control of the vessel i can't imagine the vessel
being re-registered during it being frozen by the Italians -okay so we'll move on another
vessel that has been re-registered to to sierra leone is that multi-yard Galactica supernova
now it was in the Cayman Islands and it i think that it must have been i don't know whether it was
deregistered from the Cayman Islands or whether they've done it themselves i the Cayman Islands
very quiet about this they haven't made any that we are aware of even any announcements about any
vessels being deregistered hasn't been on AIS for over 5 months since this vessel left Tivat in
Montenegro and then they just disappeared into the ether we have had pictures from subscribers
of the vessel in Turkey so it's in Turkey in the safe haven with every every other Russian yacht
another yacht that has been reflagged recently is motor yacht Le Grand Blue
now she's been re-registered to- she was registered in Bermuda and she's been re-registered to Palau
now if you don't know where Oalau is -it's southwest of Guam so in the Philippine sea
and that is another place that i've never seen a flag from Palau on a super yacht
so yeah very interesting times they're obviously looking for flag states that are that are going to
accept them first of all and also out of the reach of any sort of sanctions or anything like that
so yeah so very interesting a lot of information about different yachts so we are tracking yacht
registrations and stuff like that so yeah - any changes come in the future we'll let you
know so uh just before i go i've got one last thing this was sent to me by a subscriber this
this happened in Cala de Volpe which is in Sardinia and you can see very poor weather
conditions fog plus a lot of very high winds and you can see one vessel very slowly encroaching on
another- the white vessel i'm told was an anchor or it was connected to a bollard floating bollard and
the other vessel which i believe is called Ninja J it crept up like a ninja on the other vessel
and it looks like it actually made contact with the other vessel- it's very difficult to see in
in this footage but it looks like there was a collision there very slow collision
i asked the person who sent it to me if they knew what happened they said they
didn't really -all they knew is what they saw in that video and it looked to me like the
possibility was that the vessel the silver vessel had possibly been an anchor and dragged its anchor
maybe lost its anchor but usually and i've been on a vessel that's lost an anchor -
usually when you lose your anchor you're going backwards because as the wind blows the vessel the
vessel spins around on the anchor in the direction of the the wind and then when the anchor breaks or
you drag the anchor you end up going backwards so i'm not quite sure what happened there
if you have any more information about this accident please get in touch i don't know if there
was any injuries or anything like that i doubt it because it's such a slow-moving thing
but yeah so that's that's it guys that's everything i've got for today if you've got any
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