Hi guys welcome back to the channel and welcome to Gibraltar now this vessel here
you may recognise if you've been watching the channel since March at least
you may recognise this vessel this is motor yacht Axioma -now this vessel was arrested here
in Gibraltar by the admiralty under a court order from JP Morgan who arrested the vessel
apparently for money owed to the that bank and the vessel's been here ever since so what we're
going to do today is a little bit different - so i'm in Gibraltar - traveling and i thought while
i'm here- I'll come and look at the vessel we'll go and have a little bit of a close-up look
and and then we'll see what we can see and i'll give you a little bit more information
about the vessel while we're here so let's do it well the vessel has been here since 21st march
and what's interesting is like the because the vessels arrested because of apparent
non-payment of money that was owed to JP Morgan however the owner is a Russian businessman
who's currently under sanctions by the EU and the UK - His name is Dimitri Pompianski
so with the vessel being arrested in Gibraltar - It means that any every yacht has a management
company that runs the crew has gives them the crew contracts does payroll stuff like that
because the vessel the vessel's owner is under sanctions that means that any European
management company would have had to sever ties with the vessel and that
means that the crew won't get paid and any payments for like let's say the vessel needs
has some issues with engine and they need to get parts no company no european-based company
who's most likely the builder of the engines or whatever is on board that they want to fix
can supply those parts to the vessel can't take those payments so the vessel has sat it's kind of
stranded here because it can't move i'm not saying there is anything wrong with the vessel but what
i'm saying is that nobody can do business with the vessel because the owner is on EU and UK sanctions
now a few days after they arrived the vessel was alongside and it got into some trouble because
the weather was so bad that the vessel was rolling in in its - where it was moored
-and you can see the damage here where the the fairing which is like a like a a filling that goes
on top of the metal and then it's sanded down and painted and you can see the various layers of it
it was it was damaged so badly that it smashed the fairing right off and now all you've got
is -you can see the metal underneath which has been damaged and they've you can see that they've
been working on some of it here and trying to repair some of the damage here but - that is a
pretty extensive damage that they've got on on the vessel there so i don't know how they're going to
fix that see this is another thing example of you would need to have that looked up in the shipyard
to get a proper job done on it and that's probably why it's just sat there because they can't
get any parts or any any equipment the other thing is
it's a very quiet vessel now that does not necessarily mean there's no crew on board
-on the contrary i actually saw some crew leave a little while ago the most likely scenario is that
it's because the vessel's not going anywhere they're probably working a five-day week and
they're just it's saturday today when i'm filming so it's most likely that they're just having the
day off this vessel was built by Dunya yachts in Turkey which is interesting because that's
where all the boats are going right now it's like the safe haven for yachts and this vessel
was actually headed to Turkey when it when it diverted to come into Gibraltar it wasn't not on
the list of expected arrivals in Gibraltar um even the day before when i i noticed that the vessel
was had Gibraltar as a destination and i thought that's odd because that you know it's going to get
arrested as soon as it goes in there they asked for permission that day to go in and they were
it was granted and then soon as the vessel docked it was bordered by the authorities as you can see
in this footage here that i got from Gibraltar yachting and ever since then they've been stuck
here and they're stranded here now so one of the comments that i see quite regularly is that these
vessels are spy vessels and they've got a lot of equipment on board that's used for spying
so what we'll do is we'll take a look at the equipment on this particular vessel and i'll
go through it with you and i'll show you what they've got and if anything is out of the ordinary
the thing is this is an area that i'm involved with on superyachts and i can say that
at least for this vessel there's nothing out of the ordinary up there on the mast so what we can
see just from here is we can see the sat and 2 domes most likely the upper one being V-sat domes
and the lower ones being TV dumps it could be the other way around but that's the most likely
that's the way i would expect it to be like i said nothing out of the ordinary
and the thing underneath there that's suspended upside down there's a searchlight the white one
and the black one's a little CCTV camera and then at the very top of the master you've got some
antennas wind gauge and some navigation lights like i said nothing out of the ordinary 2 radars
usually a x-band on nine gigahertz and an S-band on 2.4 gigahertz and then over here we've got some
medium frequency and high frequency antennas for radios nothing out of the ordinary
-alright so i hope you enjoyed this video a little bit different for some of the new subscribers on
the channel but for you some of you OG's that remember what the channel was like before
the sanctions and the Russian stuff this is a little bit more like a return to what i
used to do before even though the subject was still sanctioned but don't worry i'm
still making the news videos this is just a little diversion but i hope you enjoyed this
format -please let me know what you think in the comments below and if you've got any
information about the boat which management company they're them for instance that would
be interesting send it to me through the normal ways through the about page of the youtube channel
or through Facebook Messenger -alright guys thanks very much for watching and i'll see you soon- bye
bye