this is superyacht news with eSysman
hi welcome back to the channel -okay so i've got some updates from the breaking news stories
that came out over the weekend so the first breaking news story that we had was
about motor yacht Alpha Nero and the vessel was bordered by amongst others FBI agents
and the second story of course was the sinking of motor yacth Saga so we're going to get into those in a
minute first of all i wanted to address many many comments i saw in the comments section after the
last couple of videos the first comments were directed towards the FBI in the US i suspect
it's mostly political rather than factual the the the grievances that most people had but i
just wanted to clarify something moving forward so we don't have to have have this constantly come up
the most frequent comment is that the FBI are not allowed to work overseas
this is actually incorrect there are federal laws in the US that allows the FBI to operate overseas
and the FBI has had agents stationed overseas for eight decades so this started in 1940 Roosevelt
president Roosevelt was the first one to decide to do this and i'll put a picture on the screen
this is an FBI attache office in Paris in 1946 this is from the FBI website by the way and there
are 80 offices around the world approximately some smaller than others but and they cover
180 countries territories and islands and the FBI conducts investigations abroad only when
invited by the host country so people were saying they don't have jurisdiction yes they don't have
jurisdiction they can't you know abseil out of a blackhawk and arrest people in another country
but they work with the law enforcement of other countries and they go along as observers generally
now if you combine that another frequent comment which again is probably political probably from
a lot of Russian bots and stuff like that but is how can the us go after vessels in other countries
like the Amadea and Fiji although something called the mutual legal assistance treaty or mlat
and this is basically an agreement between two countries they sign that treaty and that means
that if something happens in another country then the the country that wants to investigate
ask the other country for assistance and they are legally required to respond to that request
anyway we got that out the way so an update on the Alfa Nero boarding in Antigua like i said
so i've got some footage on screen here that was taken clearly as as events happened many
agents there who were involved in that now the local law enforcement that were involved oh by
the way this was done under the MLA treaty that's why i brought it up so a request to Antigua
by the government of the United States under the mutual legal assistance treaty
and because of sanctions against the owner the yacht was unable to leave because
all of the companies in Antigua were told that they weren't allowed to do business with anyone
who's on the sanctions list so Alpha Nero was unable to buy enough fuel to leave the country
they sold them the minimum amount of fuel required for the vessel to keep operating
i keep it generators running etcetera and- (this is what i was
talking about in previous videos) this should have applied to Garçon and Halo but it didn't
for some reason- it may be something to do with the fact that Abramovic wasn't sanctioned by the US.
now the agents involved in the boarding of Alpha Nero was was the the ONDCP which is the Office
of National Drug and Money Laundering Control Policy supported by a multi-agency task force
compromising the police , defense force and customs and DPP Armstrong he said that
the operation was totally under local control though the FBI was granted a request to observe.
so that's the reason why the FBI was there the ministry of foreign affairs in Antigua says that
this is an ongoing investigation so they're not releasing any more details yet -all right so we'll
move on to the next story which is the update on the the yacht that sank off the coast of Italy
motor yacht Saga was the name if you haven't seen that video already
vessel was a 40 meter yacht and it started to take on water in the evening, they called into
port authorities and told them that the vessel was taken on water -a tugboat was dispatched
and patrol boats were dispatched also and the tugboat tried to tow the vessel to safety but
the vessel sank and you can see in the video footage here i've got some new video footage
of the vessel finally sinking- you can see the it's still tethered to the tugboat
up until a few minutes before the vessel sinks obviously they had a problem disconnecting that
that toro by the looks of it because it was still on at such a late stage
so also in the footage you can see some life rafts in the water -now these are inflatable life rafts
- i'm just curious as to how they ended up being inflated there are self-inflatable rafts and
they have a device on them -which when the vessel starts to sink -when the raft
gets to a certain point under the water it cuts its own cables that's holding it to the
vessel and it floats to the surface and it automatically inflate so it's possible that
that's how those vessels became inflated so there were 9 people on board the vessel in total
4 of them were guests and 5 crew -so they were actually guests on when this happened
the guests were rescued into the patrol boats and 1 crew member and the rest of the crew
initially stayed on board to try to you know prevent the vessel from sinking most likely
running pumps to try and pump the water out but obviously they weren't successful in doing so
and then eventually they also abandoned ship into that patrol boat so that's everything
we've got right now on that story -obviously it's a developing story and an investigation will be done
i believe the vessel -we tried to find out - but it's hard to know the exact location of
the final moments of that vessel -we've got an AIS signal which was lost around the time the vessel
sank so that gives us an idea of where the vessel was -we've checked some marine charts and in that
area the water there seems to have been about 500 m so it's if there are some questions about
whether or not the vessel's going to be recovered in 500 m of water it's very unlikely
and that's because it would cost too much to do it - in 2012 motor yacht Yogi's - 60 meter yacht sank
actually not that far away sank and it was in 500 m of water and that vessel was never
recovered and it because it was just deemed to be- too deep- too expensive so it's unlikely that
there'll be a recovery of that vessel if the vessel had sank in a few meters of water then
you know it's probable that the vessel would be recovered
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