This is superyacht news with eSysman- hi welcome back to the channel so you are looking on my left
here you're looking at a boat it's clearly on fire being apparently it seems to be it's hard
to tell from this footage because it's small but it looks like the boat is being towed
most likely boat is being towed away from a marina maybe- this is from Bodrum in Turkey
Bodrum is a place where quite a few Russian yachts are currently located although
it's completely unrelated i just thought i'd point out where about in Turkey it is -
and this was sent to me yesterday and if you know more about this story please get in touch because
because we couldn't find anything online other than this video which was posted on instagram.
so anyway we'll move on -there's been some movements with some yachts that
have not moved for a long period of time. one of those vessels is is Alpha Nero
now you may remember last month Alfa Nero was bordered by officials from Antigua and also
the FBI and some other federal agents- the vessel's been in Antigua in Farnborough Harbor i believe is.
and the vessel's been there for a long time we don't believe the vessel is currently arrested
but because the owner is a a Russian billionaire who's been sanctioned the vessel has basically
been stranded there because the companies there are not supplying the vessels with enough fuel to
leave -as because of the sanctions -that there have basically been instructions by the government
to businesses in Antigua to not supply any vessels that are owned by Russians who are under sanctions.
now there hadn't been any movement in terms of AIS i monitored the AIS
and all of a sudden we got some updates numerous changes of AIS updates and multiple notifications
should i say and this was on a 15:25 UTC time on the 16th of september -she changed her
status to underway and left the marina. anyway the vessel didn't go far and it went to a Bay
off the coast of Queen's Beach which is on the west side of the island of Antigua -now another
vessel that has done the same thing that is Le Grand Bleu - i mentioned in the previous video
that Le Grand Bleu which suddenly had some updates from her AIS -we reported last month
that she changed their flag state from Bermuda to Sierra Leone because they hadn't updated their AIS
it still showed the old flag until the 16th of september- they also left the same day from
Ponce in Puerto Rico and they headed south and they went basically halfway to Venezuela and then
the AIS was on and off the whole time- it was it was dropping off for
hours and then coming back and now they are basically just sort of going back and
forth down there- just looking at it from that point of view all sounds a little bit strange
because you know of the behavior the vessel leaves after months and then it just heads
to nowhere and it's just going back and forth as you can see from the AIS data here
but most likely the reason is that there is a tropical storm heading to
Puerto Rico and it's just been upgraded actually to a hurricane -Hurricane Fiona
i think it's called now and they're expecting it to drop 20 inches of rain in Puerto Rico
so that is a that's a big worry and that's the reason why we think both of these vessels
have left their mooring but i believe they will be returning to those places once it's safe to do so.
all right now you may remember last month we covered the fire on a brand new ISA
yacht called Area SF- this vessel had just been delivered to
her owner after three years of being built -
the owner had been in possession of the vessel for about a week and they were in Formantera in Spain
and the vessel caught fire and it was a little it was very dramatic lots of video footage because
it was in a very popular anchorage with lots of boats all around and we posted the video on
here you could see the crew being rescued by small boats and the fire just completely out of control -
now there were 7 crew on board and 9 guests at the time of the fire-
they were all rescued and there were no injuries apparently which is fantastic because that was a
big fire yeah - the vessel is reportedly owned by Italian tycoon Paolo Scudieri -now initially
there was there was a story that was reported to us that the possibility of the fire was from a
battery on a jet ski in the tender garage- now this is a very popular thing whenever i post a video
about a fire there's a lot of people saying that it's probably the batteries that have caused the
fire -now most of the vessels i've worked on and some of them have been brand new, very few of them
have any lithium batteries on although i know that they're more frequently used now -
however this theory seems to have been ruled out and the fire it seems it possibly came from
the H-VAC system on board so the air conditioning system and what compounded the issue is after the
fire started the high fog system the sprinkler system on board that most vessels have now the
high fog high pressure system did not activate and that i have a couple of theories on this now on.
most vessels the engine room if the H-VAC system was in the engine room
(most of the vessels i worked ondo is) they they don't have the system on automatic because
it gets so hot in the engine room and you get so many things going on that it can activate
itself when when it shouldn't be activating right so like a false activation -so generally what they
do is they turn off the fire pumps to the system so that if there is a fire they just go into the
control room and they activate those pumps and that charges the system and then the system starts.
now it's quite possible that that happened here although that's just speculation -
the other information that we we got at the time of the fire from people who were watching
is that they had the pumps stop- one one person reported that they
were trying to get the hoses charged and the pumps were operating and then the pumps just stopped .
also the captain was head calling on the radio for assistance
they needed water to help fight this fire - so that's the information that we've
got we've not been able to confirm this with isa keeping very tight lipped on it of course
which is not unsurprising really because obviously the the final report has not come out -there will
be a final report at some point but because the fire caused such damage
it's basically down to whatever eyewitnesses saw and heard right now i doubt there's anything any
evidence left to be able to examine we will of course bring that to you as soon as we get it
so the remains of the vessel were towed to an anchorage with the idea of towing the
the remains to a place to be scrapped and then the vessel sank in that anchorage but it was in very
shallow water so we were told that the vessel will be recovered and disposed of in the future.
just one thing before i go on to the last story i just want to say that
on the channel and we talk about sources or anonymous sources - the reason we
say that is because the people have contacted us and they will tell us information on the
basis that they want to remain anonymous. we know who they are we just don't give out their names
because they've asked for us not to i've seen some speculation in the comments there that
the sources are are usually always anonymous and there's a very specific reason for that
because -people want to don't want to abandon their careers because they give out information although
they feel it's important to do so i just wanted to clarify that -so we're going to the last story.
a woman sets fire to a yacht this is a 12 meter or 40 foot yacht in Ally Beach ( i hope i've pronounced
that correctly) in Queensland in Australia this happened last week the vessel was at
anchor and the vessel is owned by a 64 year old man who lived on board,
the woman who was 54 years old reportedly assaulted the man earlier in the day so in the
evening he wasn't on board and the woman set fire to the vessel while she was still on it ,at anchor
and then she had to jump overboard to save herself because of the fire of course you can see the
video footage here of the fire so the woman who jumped overboard, she was later rescued out of the
water this and obviously this is at night as well but she has been charged with arson by the police.
all right guys i'm going to leave it there as for tomorrow is of course the Queen's
funeral tomorrow so there will definitely not be a video tomorrow hence i'm doing it today instead
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today so if you've got any information about these the fire and Bodrum or any of the other stories
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to watch my latest video that's just come out it's called "the Phantom vessel free in the EU"
while mothership arrested in London it's it's more of a feature but there's a lot of topical
information in there about the sanctions and about this owner and about his is 2 yachts in
Imperia in Italy beautiful place in Italy i've noticed that not that many people have watched
the video which is a bit of a mystery to me because you know every video i do generally gets
you know a couple hundred thousand views but this one's been out for all weekend and it's
only on 51,000 views so i'm a bit puzzled about that one but yeah be sure to check it out and
let me know what you think below all right thanks very much for watching and i'll see you soon bye
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