this is super yacht news with eSysman
hi welcome back to the channel here excuse the attire it's casual Friday I've decided
Okay so we've got an update on the breaking news that we had last night about the fire on board a
vessel which I said was possibly or most likely a vessel called Aria SF well we can confirm now
that it was that vessel so what we know today is there were seven crew on board that's a full
complement of crew according to the the website of the builders Isa Yachts who built the vessel
and there were nine guests on board too so like I said in the video last night if you
haven't seen it the vessel was in of the Spanish Island just south of Ibiza called Formantera
and The Vessel caught fire vessel was an anchor you can actually seeing that some of
the footage that the anchors down found a new video showing the crew evacuating the vessels
you could probably see on screen now as I'm talking now you can see that you can see that
the the crew you can hear the fire alarm first of all so the fire alarm's activated of course
now you can see the crew disembarking off the swim platform into a boat now some reports said that
boat is was from The Vessel I think it's unlikely because it's quite large and other reports said it
was a police vessel now we from that video alone we can't tell which one it was but anyway that
the crew were evacuated into that into that smaller boat you can also see a white tender
there as well which that's more likely that the the tender from that from that boat but like we
can't be sure on on any of that there were no reports of any casualties which is great news
the the yacht is owned by Italian Tycoon Paolo skudieri now it's not known if he was on board
but it's very likely he was on board because it's his boat the boat was in was had guests
on there were nine guests on board so it's very likely he was on board what's remarkable about
this the thing is when you work at Sea you spend a large proportion of your time training for fires
especially on the larger vessels and you can see why you can see how quickly this fire spreads in
this video and you can see that when the when the crew are disembarking that there's a lot of smoke
but almost immediately after the last one steps off the boat you see the fire breakthrough and
he completely engulfs the vessel and then you can see in the video that the people who were
filming they once they saw how big the fire came so quickly they decided that they needed to to
move away in case of any explosions which was very smart now I have an eyewitness report here
that I'm going to read I tried to get in touch with the person to talk to them a little bit
more but they haven't been in touch with me so far they said we were anchored on us on our 17 meter
sailing vessel right next to the vessel we saw how an initial small fire appeared extinguished
we noticed that the fire water pumps stopped running and the captain was requesting
urgent support for Water by VHF smoke reappeared and after a couple of minutes we saw flames in
the main salon and soon after the fire was out of control last crew members abandoned the ship with
a tender Flames engulfed a ship and all areas were on fire the vessel's been completely destroyed
there was some hope that it might withstand but no it's completely destroyed completely a total loss
now what some of the things that were said in that in that eyewitness report there we
talked about the fire pumps now the fire pumps will be activated by the crew when there's a
fire and they that will run so you can use your hoses yeah so and that is the fire pump
the regulations the multi-regulations of how the fire pump should run it's for a vessel of
this size it's first of all it's quite tricky to work out what vessel has which equipments
because it the the the regulations change based on a lot of different things so the vessel is
over 24 meters but under 500 gross tons for unlimited vessel in terms of sea goings some
vessels are limited to where they can go so that and the restrictions fire restrictions
change based on those things being different and as they don't have a full list of the of
of what regulations that vessel was built to I can't give you I can only give you my best guess
but according to the multi-regulations for a 25 meter 24 meters or over and under 500 gross tons
this is what I should have had on board this is not inclusive this is just the main things so
it should have had an automatic sprinkler Miss system in accordance with the requirements of
the IMO Fire Safety Code as amended shall be fitted on all Yachts which do not comply with
the restricted use of combustible materials so what that means is there should be a system of
sprinkler system or Miss Mist system which is usually by a company called high fog they are
the most common systems that I've never seen in the system on board a yacht that wasn't High fog
and they are like an advanced sprinkler but they they have a high missed high pressure water that
creates a big Mist that takes oxygen out of the air as well very effective uses less water than
a traditional sprinkler system as traditional sprinkler system puts out so much water it can
actually affect the stability of the vessel this so this again this vessel only is required to have
that if it does not comply with the restricted use of combustible materials which means that
the way the the materials that the bulkheads which is the walls or the deck heads the
ceilings are constructed from depending on what materials are used they may or may not require a
sprinkler system I would imagine this boat had a sprinkler system but I cannot be sure about that
now another thing that they would be required to have is which is what the eyewitness report said
is that like they hid the fire pump stop now on this vessel it's only required by regulations
to have one fire pump now most vessels larger vessels will have multiple fire pumps and each
one will be controlled will be powered by a different area like the emergency switchboard
or the you know something outside of the engine room and the reason for that is the engine room
is the most likely source of any fire and they're only required to have one fireman's outfit with
ba which is breathing apparatus so on a larger Yachts like the vessels I've worked on we'd have
two teams of firefighters and there'd usually be three or four people in each team you could have
three teams depending on the size the bigger the vessel the more fire teams you had because
you have a bigger crew I said just mentioned it briefly there that most fires are started
in engine room and this is according to the UK p i club which is a marine Mutual liability insurer
in the United Kingdom and they said that most fires started the engine room other areas of of
high probability of fires are you know Machinery rooms and also laundries and galleys galleys very
often very often get small fires and galleys so I just want to address some of some of the comments
so firstly as far as we know none of the vessels that have been on fire in recent videos in any
of the videos we've done this year have been belonging to sanctioned owners so that forget
that one so that is not the case another thing is a lot of comments about portraying or not
having correct equipment and and the reality is having the correct equipment is not guarantee
um that you're going to put out the fire sometimes fires just cannot be contained
um and another very common thing is asking me particularly is are there
more fires than normal lately and obviously the data on this year's the amount of fires
this year obviously won't be out yet because we're still in this year but
um up until the data going back previous years there was no statistics that show there has
been an increase in fires it's just most most likely an increase in the reporting of fires
um and um oh and then the next one is which we get every time every time we mention a fire on
the channel the most the things that people jump to straight away is insurance fraud
and you know clearly some vessels may be victims of insurance fraud um but it's I would say it's
probably a very low percentage now this vessel in particular is a brand new vessel it was just
delivered last month to 20 25 million euro vessel um the owner is very wealthy and um and it also
was full of people it was seven crew on board nine guests um so it's very unlikely you're
gonna invite all your family or friends on and then Set Fire To The Vessel right also a vessel
that has a crew of seven on it like that you to to to try to do something like that you'd have to
have all of those crew members in on that on that scheme and you know first of all nobody wants to
die at sea secondly nobody wants to lose a license because that's our career right we've all trained
for many years to qualify to work on these vessels and we're not going to give it up for
um you know a payoff for setting fire to a vessel it just goes against everything that people know
in the industry about you know we train so much about fires there's no way that someone's going
to delivery set to the fire very very unlikely that many Yachts however the victims of that I'm
not saying it doesn't happen I'm sure it does but in this particular instance it's the likelihood
is almost zero also because these vessels take this one took three years to build now when that
vessel is built there's a limited number of yachts and they can be more valuable than what they paid
for them because if they sell it to someone else they don't have to wait three years so there is
very good market for used or pre-delivered vessels so there's no reason to have to want to go through
that go through all the stress of it and then potentially get caught and potentially not get any
money it's just yeah it's very unlikely hopefully I've addressed the most frequently mentioned
things in the comments sections there so I've just got a couple I've just got one other thing
to talk about and it's very quick Motor Yacht a I was in Dubai been spotted again yesterday
I mentioned recently that we were tracking the tenders and in the last two weeks that
the tenders have stopped transmitting AIS 2 I was saying that it was possibility they hadn't
launched any tenders but you can see in this video here the tender guys door is open it's back at the
world area in Dubai and much closer to the to the shore this time and the tender garages open there
so that clearly launch and tenders so they have most likely Switched Off the AIS a vessel still
is not showing as having a flag State on any of the systems that where you can check any of the
registries all right guys oh there's one other thing Amadea I've got a few people contacting
me saying about motorhead's Amadea out in San Diego it was on the move it just went out to an
Anchorage for a few hours and it is now back in its birth where it was before so yeah nothing to
see there oh one there's another thing actually in multi-atic Clips also as as moved recently
went from Gojek in Turkey ran to Marmaris I was what's it a little bit interesting about this is
The Vessel was sat there for an awful long time over a month maybe two months and then
Garçon turned up and people saw the the boats from Garçon transferring stuff over to Eclipse
and then Eclipse left shortly after so the possibility that they were waiting on some
supplies from the from the supply vessel from the shadow vessel all right guys I'm going to
leave it there thanks very much for watching have a great weekend and I'll see you
soon be sure to like this video hit the Subscribe button and hit the bell for future notifications