this is superyacht news with eSysman- hi welcome back to the channel so the news never stops these
days and we are following the developing story it seems about the movements of motor yacht yacht
Dilbar and the reasons why they're moving so you probably already know if you watched my previous
video that Dilbar left the elbe 17 dry dock facility in hamburg in the early hours of the
20th of september 100 hours approximately in the cloak of darkness the vessel was towed out of that
dry dock the vessel was a dead ship and it was towed to the Lurssen's other facility in Bremen
official line from Lurssen is that they need the dry dock because it's it's been in there since the
owner was sanctioned in in march and that's fair enough right you know it's a working facility they
haven't been able to use that dry dock for six months now however some things have come to light
which kind of puts a bit of a shadow on this this story and and the reason why the vessel is moving
we're just gonna go back a little bit to bring you up to date so we have a timeline so the third
of march Alicia Usmanov is sanctioned one of the first Russians to be sanctioned after the invasion
of Ukraine which is the 24th of february so as a result of this the vessels in that dry dock
and as a result of this everybody downs tools nobody can work on the vessel in Lurssen all
of the crew are laid off because the management companies have to stop working for the owner and
in that a knock-on effect happens with every every company that's involved there so the
vessel is now cocooned in this dry dock with a top hole on over it and it sits there for six months
so the eighth of april his sister who was connected to him via as many as 27 Swiss bank
accounts is also sanctioned his sister's name is ms Ismail over i'll put her full name on the
screen i'm not even going to try and pronounce the first part it's an Uzbek name and i don't know how
to pronounce that so she's sanctioned on the 8th of april and they've like i said they found many
many Swiss bank accounts in her name up to 27 bank accounts and she gets put on the sanctions list
on the same day also sanctioned his other sister whose name is zadat nazi nazieva so i probably
destroyed that name i apologize if i did so that's on the 8th of april right so on the 13th of april
the BKA which is like germany's FBI they finally established who is the owner of motor yacht Dilbar
and so it's from the so from the 3rd of march until the 13th of april it took them to figure
out who owns that vessel how that's how well it was hidden and they said that through a series
of trusts and offshore accounts they finally traced it back to his sister miss Ismail over
so and she so she is listed on paper as the owner of the 156 meter or 511 foot super yacht
now i think we all really know who owns the vessel i mean i've worked with people who worked on
Dilbar and there's no misunderstanding there about who owns the vessel but on paper it's his sister
so on the fourth of may mr Usmanov and his two sisters separately file appeals against the
sanctions saying that they're you know infringing on his human rights et cetera like that and
those appeals are promptly dismissed we fast forward to september on the 14th of september
mr Usmanov's sister narsyava she so she's not the one that's registered as owning Dilbar she's the
other sister she is removed from the sanctions list as you can see on on the screen here
you can see it says that that her information has been deleted in other words she's been removed
from the sanctions list so that's on the 14th of september now five days later on the 20th
of september or 6 days later Dilbar is moved from the dry dock to Bremen if he has added his sister
as the owner on paper of motor yacht Dilbar and the sister who's listed as the owner is
still sanctioned but his other sister is no longer sanctioned how difficult do you think it would be
for him to change the name on the ownership papers from one sister to another i mean he
added his sister as the owner in the first place wouldn't be very difficult for him to change that
ownership to the now now non-sanctioned sister so that's something that could be happening here
that the vessels be moved from handbag because it's in a very high profile sort of position
right opposite officers of many journalists and stuff like that and now it's gone to Bremen
so is it because they are going to start to work on the vessel again
also some of the yacht spotters in Germany have suggested that work has continued on the vessel
even though the vessel's been under sanctions now what we can't confirm whether that's the
case or not there's some talk online of the top deck having some changes made to it now
we couldn't see any difference and we couldn't confirm that so if we look into the ownership
who is registered with the imo the international marathon organization as the owner of the vessel
it goes it comes back to a company called Nevis Marine limited this is on the imo database
and it says nationality of registration is the cayman islands and it says address care of lesson
yacht management gmbh and then it's got the address in german in Bremen in Germany
so look yeah Lurssen have their own yacht management company so obviously it's a it's
technically it's a different company than lost in the shipyard but they're clearly owned by the same
people right so we we went to Lurssen and asked them why the vessel has been moved is there any
truth to the ownership of the vessel and we said to the person that you know you being
the registered address of the owner you clearly know who the owner is and i'm sure that when you
get information sent to you about what work needs to be done that vessel i'm sure it's not coming
from his sister so anyway Lurssen came back to us with the statements and they said and this
is verbatim they said thank you for your inquiry we relocate Dilbar which was located in our doc
elbe 17 in hamburg dock elbe 17 is urgently needed by us for other projects and must therefore be
made available again in the timely manner all our activities are fully in line with the European
sanctions law and we continue to work closely with the relevant authorities we kindly ask for your
understanding that we cannot comment further on this issue for reasons of confidentiality
so what's interesting in that statement is what they say about being fully in line with European
sanctions law now if if mr Usmanov changes the ownership of Dilbar from one sister to another
that that technically means that the vessel is now free to move free to have work carried out on it
so that's a very interesting line there and they were very we were a bit vague there weren't they
anyway we're continuing to follow this story and we'll bring you updates when we have more if you
have any information about this story please get in touch okay we'll move on to the next story now
we've got a little update about Eleanor E a lot of comments in the in the last video about how awful
that vessel looked i mean technically most of the vessel is just covered in mud so that would clean
off quite easily i think obviously the big hole in the side is not a simple fix but one of the things
that we commented on yesterday is that it was we couldn't figure out how the vessel was floating or
appeared to be floating on the surface and we asked for any ideas that people might have now
a lot of people said they closed the water type bulkheads and they pumped out the water
now the vet when the vessel was hit by that search and rescue vessel it took 30 minutes to sink now
one of the first things that was the crew on board it was fully crewed they would have closed all of
those watertight bulkheads and that didn't stop the vessel from sinking but we received
some photographs some more photographs today from another another person and we can now see
what has been done however coincidentally we got there was a comment on the last video
and i'll read that comment out because i think this is quite interesting and he said he said i am
a salvage diver the first job to recover a vessel is to lift to the surface with airbags second job
is to patch the hole internally or externally with any means possible and then pump out the remaining
water so the vessel can float on its own then tow it to a suitable facility to lift out of the water
likely this in this situation divers have patched it internally and then cranes held it while the
water was pumped out inside to give positive buoyancy so now if you look at the photographs
that we've received you can see there we couldn't see this in the photographs now but you can see
that there is actually something in place there holding something inside the vessel
and that's clearly what they've done to patch that vessel and to get it to float again so yeah
so there you go so that mystery has been solved what's interesting is now the vessel's floating
i'm pretty certain this vessel can be repaired i mean i i'm just going by what i see i have no
expertise in this area but i think that that probably can be repaired i hope it will be
would be great to see that vessel back at say it sometime in the future thanks very much for
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