this is superyacht news with eSysman
hi welcome back to the channel okay so we've got some news about motor yacht Octopus now she was
stuck in on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal for approximately 4 months now - we reported in a
previous video that the vessel actually had thrown a shaft bearing and the vessel couldn't sail
under full steam full manoeuvrability because they lost an engine effectively the shaft bearing
allows the shaft to spin the propellers attached to the end of that shaft and then the other end
is connected to the engine so if you lose a shaft bearing you can't use that engine right
so the vessel's been sat in Atanke off the Panama Canal for months now as we
reported in another video so on the 16th of august in very early hours of the morning
motor yacht Octopus finally transited the Panama Canal now with just that information you would
assume that the vessel has been repaired because they've been waiting for this part
for so long you would think okay they must have got the part and they're on their way however
what i noticed about the transit was that the yacht was escorted or possibly towed through
the canal certainly through the areas where they where the locks are so as you go into the Panama
Canal on the Pacific side and then you come out on the other side on the on the gulf of Mexico
the Octopus was towed by these tucked these tug boats now that's not a normal procedure for a
super yacht there are some vessels that go through that are not don't have very good manoeuvrability
and then they have tugs either put a line on the vessel and just just to be on the safe side
and guide them through or or escort and that's what was happening with motor yacht Octopus that
sort of makes me think that possibly they haven't repaired the vessel but for some reason they've
been given permission to transit because if you've got if you don't have full manoeuvrability
normally you won't be allowed through so yeah as i said you can see in these this
AIS data here that- (as they went through on the Pacific side )-you can see that there was a tugboat
guiding them through possibly towing them i i was not awake when this happened so i wasn't able to
look at the data on AIS i just got this from going back in time on the you can go back three days on
marine traffic the vessel is -now in the San Blas islands in Panama which is on the Gulf of Mexico
side but what's interesting actually is that the the the destination that is showing on on the AIS
app says San Blas in Mexico and that's actually on the Pacific side
so either the vessel entered the wrong destination unlikely or the marine traffic app is having some
sort of episode but it's showing the wrong destination but you can see when i click on
the destination on there it takes me to the Pacific side so now the places have got the
same name sandblast Mexico and San blas Panama so sunglass islands Panama so it's a mistake
somewhere so anyway the vessel's through finally and it's it's at anchor now in those islands now
if it was trying to get back to somewhere to to get some repairs done and it wouldn't be sat at
anchor most likely so it's possible they fixed the vessel a little bit of a mystery if you know
any more information on that please get in touch i would be interested to know if they fix the vessel
all right so we'll move on to the next story now now this is a bit of a a Dilbar watch
so motor yacht Dilbar you all know the largest vessel largest superyacht in the world by volume
has been in the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg Blohm + Voss now owned by Lürssen it's been there
since march and the vessel hasn't moved because the owner Alicer Usmanov was sanctioned and they
laid off all the crew even the captain they're all fired and they brought in lures and actually
brought in a skeleton crew of 5 people i believe who were looking after the vessel staying in a
local accommodation and coming in during the day and looking after the vessel which is in the dry
dock facility and was covered with the tarpaulin now in the last few weeks they they removed
all of the top and the vessel has got people working on it again which is interesting because
under the sanctions rules they're not allowed to work on that vessel so we contacted Lürssen and
asked them what's going on with the vessel why is there people working on it and they did reply and
i read this in a previous video but i'll read it again it says we are pleased to inform you
that work is currently being carried out on the yacht Dilbar to ensure the safety of the ship
the shipyard and the environment the current work has been reported to the responsible authorities
in advance and has been checked and approved by them please understand that we cannot provide
any further information now that's fine you know they've got permission and this is what happens
with people who've been sanctioned they can sometimes get permission to pay crew members
and things like that and in this case Lürssen has said look we need to move this vessel most likely
so they can use that dry dock right but i have had some contacts from some sources
that say that the vessel might be being moved to a different location still unsure about the location
but possibly Bremen or Bremerhaven so yeah so i'm not quite sure why they're planning on doing that
quite interesting but if you've got any information on that please get in touch
but please if you live -every time i mention Dilbar- i get a few people who live in the area and
very kindly send in photos and videos and stuff like that so but if you are in that area please be
sure to keep an eye on it because you might see it moving one day or you might walk back on you might
walk past one day and the vessel is just gone so please keep an eye out and let me know if you see
anything okay so we move on to the next story now i'm gonna go back to the vessel that sank recently
after being after catching fire we've done i've done quite a bit on this now i just basically
want to answer some of the questions and some of the comments i've seen in the in the in the
comments section so one of the things that i've seen a lot of is people talking about fiberglass
this vessel has a steel hole and aluminium superstructure so you know it wasn't a fiberglass
built vessel people say no fiberglass catches on fire really easily and stuff like that well this
vessel wasn't fiberglass now the superstructure was aluminium or aluminum as they say in
in the US- now if aluminium gets to a certain temperature then it effectively just melts
so that's probably what we're seeing in the latter stages of that fire
but it is resistant more more so than fiberglass and and the toxic fumes that fabric glass gives
off is obviously not a good thing so we have a deck plan here as well now this is not a full
GA which is a general arrangement which is what we call deck plans generally now this is a death
plan that's been put out for you know the general public so i can't say that for sure
that this is got all the information on there that i need it doesn't show any watertight doors it
doesn't show any fire screen doors but like i said i don't believe this is a full general arrangement
it's just there to show people how the vessel is laid out but what we can take from this is that
you can show you the location of the engine room which is obviously on the lowest deck
down which will be below the water line and you can see that it's approximately i would say that
it's most likely that fire started in the engine room based on the position of the engine room on
this deck plan now if we go to the next deck here the a deck up you'll see that the main salon is
right on top of the engine room now in the one of the eyewitness reports said that they saw flames
the first flames they saw were coming from the main salon now if the engine room's right
underneath it and it burns right through that deck then it's going to go into the main solid or you
get a certain amount of heat go through the the steel of the deck and it will catch the deck above
so one of the things we do when we firefight is we do something called boundary
cooling where we go in to an area that is not on fire and then we hose it with water to try and
keep the temperature down so it doesn't combust yeah so on that deck plan we go to the next deck
up the main salon and then the forward of the main salon is the galley so this is another area on a
vessel that often has fires so that's another it's not that far away from the area that we're
looking at so i would say but i would still say that based on statistics that most likely
place that fire starter was in the engine room we'll hopefully we'll find out eventually -well
we will find out eventually when the report comes out that's probably not going to be for another
year though i'm hoping if you were a crew member on board or if you know any crew members on board
please get in touch or please ask them to get in touch with me it would be very interesting to talk
to somebody now - one of the things that i said in the video is - i
said there's no such thing as fireproof material when it comes to cushions mattresses cones etc
i said and if the fire is hot enough anything will burn in that fire i had quite a few comments about
this one and one comment that maybe made me smile was this one he says actually there are materials
that are absolutely fireproof they just cost the packet and don't necessarily look pretty you're
looking at the likes of the space shuttle heat shields so i don't think you can make cushions and
mattresses from the heat shields from the space shuttle so i just want to get that one out there
so anyway we'll move on from that one and i've got one last thing this is a bit of fun person
Jeremy Clarkson he was the hope one of the hosts of top gear for many years and he's now a host of
the grand tour very famous in the UK - i don't think he's as famous in the USA
but most people know who Jeremy Clarkson is well today he posted on twitter that he was holidaying
on a boat and he said don't worry if your A-levels results are disappointing i got a C and two U's
and i'm currently holidaying on this boat well he probably thought that he didn't say the name
of the boat and he probably thought that from that angle nobody would know what boat that is
but i immediately recognized this boat and i actually posted a reply on his feed and said if
you want to know what boat that is please be sure to watch my video tonight so a shameless bit of
advertising there for the channel but the vessel that he is on board is motor yacht Shimara now
it's a this is a beautiful boat was built in 1938 and was built by Vosper Thornycroft in the UK
and it saw active service in world war II between 1939 and 1945 incredible heritage for that vessel
so the vessel kind of sat in a shipyard for about 30 years and was eventually bought by somebody who
completely rebuilt this vessel modernized it put azipods on it which is the electric motors
which are very cutting edge but he did it in such a way that the vessel still looks like it
would have you know in 1938 - he's hidden all of the modern equipments like the V-sat domes and the
electronics and stuff like that inside the old funnel or or a smoke stack that smoke stack is
made of GRP so glass reinforced plastic and all of the electronics are inside of there
because they don't need a smoke stack anymore for modern vessels they can do underwater exhausts
and they can have very small exhaust they don't need a big funnel like that anymore and even like
things like the the the mast they're made from carbon fiber but they're made to look like wood
to save weight but it's quite an incredible quite an incredible boat i would love to be able to go
on board that boat but the vessel is registered in the the royal yacht squadron in the UK of the
isle of wight and when the owners on board he's allowed to fly the white ensign of the royal navy
which is fascinating to me and that is because of something that goes back quite a maybe 150 years
when the king gave them the permission to fly the white enter which is reserved ordinarily just for
the royal navy but anyway Jeremy Clarkson posted on his twitter account that this photograph that's
on the screen here and i can show you from footage that i have of the vessel you can see that that
chrome period boat there or it looks like a an old boat and you can see the wood and the canvas
above and then you can see in the background a wooden jacuzzi there and you can i'll point it all
out on the footage that i took of this vessel now the vessel the vessel was in the Bahamas 2017 and
i made a video about it actually i'll post a link in the top corner there so you can watch it if
you're interested but yeah anyway so i've exposed Jeremy Clarkson the vessel by the way is in
Kefalonia in Greece it's at anchor currently you know based on the AIS so i've just blown up Jeremy
Clarkson there and i've told everybody where he is so if you see if you see motor yach Sthimara
then be sure to wave at Jeremy Clarkson because he's most likely still on board
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right thanks very much and have a great weekend and oh wait in a minute it's not friday is it?
so okay thanks very much for watching and oh now i've gotten all my brains gone dead