this is superyacht news with eSysman
hi welcome back to the channel okay so on my left hand side here you're looking at
footage taken as somebody was landing in Dubai and that is the "world resort" that you can see
out of his window there -and he's zooming in on a vessel there and that is "Ocean Victory" now
we know that a couple of Russian-owned superyachts have been hiding out
in that area since the hostilities began there are other vessels in Dubai as well like "Madame Gu"
and other some other vessels but this one here in the video there that is Ocean Victory still
there no sign of "motor yacht A" though - anyway we'll move on to our first story
and this is about a collision with a super yacht well-known super yacht high profile
massive superyacht 116 meter or 380 foot super yachts called "Ulysses"- now this vessel was built
for a New Zealand billionaire called Graham Hart he built 2 vessels the first one named Ulysses
was later changed to Andromeda and sold off to building a Russian billionaire Mr. Yuri Milner
and he when he took delivery of this vessel which he then named Ulysses also
but he later sold this vessel and the buyer was also Mr. Yuri Milner so he now owns both vessels.
so the other vessel is call Andromeda (did i say that i don't know) yeah so anyway this vessel
as we reported a few weeks ago has been sat at the mouth of the Panama Canal on the north, on
the northern side looking like it's waiting to go through but it hasn't done that -and i've been told
that they have some sort of storage facility in that area and they often go there to pick
up supplies -i can't confirm that myself but that's what we've been told anyway the vessel was
at anchor by the looks of it and we looked on the AIS tracking- so the other vessel involved in this
collision was called the "m/v Charles Island" which is a reefer ship -not that kind of reefer
but it's a refrigerated cargo vessel that normally carries perishable items hence the refrigeration
and that vessel actually had a Panamanian pilot on board which is a requirement when you go through
the canal and the vessel was preparing to head through -now both vessels look like they've been
swinging on their anchor for a while and i think there must have been some sort of
misunderstanding there and i'm told that there was low visibility at the time and they collided
now i'm told that there's some damage on Ulysses i don't know about the tanker but the tanker has
since departed and it has gone through the canal the tank is much bigger than you than
the super yacht so they probably sustain much less damage but if i'm gonna i overlaid the AIS data
here to show you and it looks like this is when it happened -this is when the collision happened
and like i said we were told that there was a low visibility at the time which obviously helped for
that accident to happen- if we get more information on that we'll be sure to bring it to you
okay now for all of the people who've been subscribed to the channel since last year you
will remember a story that we did - it seems like a long time ago now- but it was christmas eve 2021
and we broke a story that a super yacht called Utopia IV had collided with a tanker, an oil tanker
in the Bahamas- as a result of that accident the tanker sank it's a small tanker, oil tanker now
the tanker delivered oil and LPG to the different islands in the Bahamas
now there was a lot of information that came out about this accident now i did a video at
the time and i did like i retraced the steps with a timeline and it explains everything i'll put a
link above so you can go and watch that video if you want to get up to date on this -there's a lot
of new information that's come out recently so if you want to know more about it
click on that link the yacht is a is a 63 meter or 206 foot super house it's a US flag
superyacht it's owned by JR Riddinger who's a Miami socialite i believe and his wife -
the vessel was was being charted on christmas eve when this accident happened -now there's a lot of
stuff that has come out since then about the captain's actions- it's in that other video i
mentioned- the captain apparently left the bridge he left an unqualified person on the bridge
which he obviously not supposed to do and that's when the accident happened -now after the accident
after the tanker sank there was another yacht there in the area that came over and assisted and
pulled the survivors out of the water they were in a lifeboat from the crew of that tanker that sank
and then they escorted Utopia IV back to the port where it had come from and they had sustained
a lot of damage to the bow as you can see in the footage here -now as they were entering the port
the Bahamas Port Authority were heard shouting at the captain telling him that he needed to turn
support or they was going to crash into the key side and what we were told is that of the other
officers took control of the vessel and it happened at late at night so it was pitch dark at
the time and they have to use the navigation lights as you enter the port right so you know
where you're going -since then, the vessel was taken out of the water- it's up in the north of New York
there at a shipyard it's back it's just gone back in the water after the repairs have been finally
done on the vessel -vessel sat out of the water for a long time- in march the crew were all laid off
so the the owners of Utopia allegedly have refused to pay the crew salary and also refused to pay
medical care for the crew and a number of the crew were injured -some of them had serious injuries as
well- some of them possibly life-changing injuries - what's happening now is that they're being sued by
lots of different people- the vessels all but also being sued by a former charter client called Ron
Conway -he charted the boat- this is before that accident and there is a federal lawsuit ongoing
and i'll put a link below so if you interested you can go and find out more about that -many of
the crew members have filed lawsuits against the owner of the vessel- the owners of the tanker that
sank as a result of the collision they're also allegedly suing the owners of the yacht and
also the company that JR Riddinger owns is also being sued for apparently allegedly being part
of a pyramid scheme so the costs of the collision are allegedly around 100 - 150 million dollars
and that's including 25 million dollars for environmental damage to the Bahamas government
and now the latest news that's just come out is that the owner JR Ridinger
has died of an apparent pulmonary embolism so yeah so a very sad ending for the owner of that vessel
but according to many different sources refusal to pay the crew,
even their medical costs we also have previously unseen footage of people on board the vessel at
the time of the accidents as you can see they are thrown across the room gives you an idea of the
ferocity of that accident -so the vessel was reportedly traveling at around 19 knots at the
time of the accident and we had reports that the visibility at the time wasn't that great
which obviously carries into question why they were doing such speeds
like i said go and check out that other video there's a lot of information in that video also
but yeah pretty shocking and that footage of the of the people getting thrown across the room is
quite shocking as well -all right guys i'm going to leave it there if you've got any information
about any of these stories the Ulysses collision or this story about Utopia 4 please get in touch
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