all right guys welcome back to eSysman Superyachts so i'm back in Paracas,
about 3 hours south from Lima so i've got my last few days here before i head back to the UK
and as a treat for all the work we've been doing
we've come down here to spend a few days relaxing however the news never stops -
so we're going to go straight into a news story and this is about a 30 meter yacht it's sinking
off the coast of Milos in Greece -off a Greek Island and the vessel is called motor yacht Acvitannia
it was built by "Cantierri de Pisa" in Italy in 1980 -the story is that the vessel sank in -
the news article said it's sank in high winds and choppy weather now i don't know
whether you know what choppy means but choppy generally means that it's a little bit rough
but it's not that bad i have a feeling that what they're trying to say is that the vessel
sank yeah maybe it's- i don't know if they didn't use the word capsize but
it basically sank in rough weather there were 18 people on board which is
which is important - we'll go back to that in a minute there were 18 people on board this
i think they were all Greek nationals British news articles said that it was a British ship
and it and but it probably had a red ensign on it but that does not mean it's British so it
was most likely registered in Cayman Islands or somewhere like that and it had a British ensign
and the people who made the report don't really know about the yacht flags and stuff like that
and i've been unable to confirm if it's actually registered in the UK
but the Greek ministry of shipping said that 18 people have been rescued
so details about the vessel is a 30 meter is it 30 meter or approximately 100 foot a yacht like i
said built in 1980 and it was refit in 2021 it was refit this year so it's just come out of a refit
so those are the stats basically of the story if you like now i have some theories now these are
theories so you know when you watch this video be sure to know that i have no
knowledge beyond what i've just read to you but i'm gonna go on based on my experience that i'm
gonna go on what i think might have happened or possible causes so the vessel didn't catch fires
and it wasn't a fire the vessel was just refit in 2021 so i had so as soon as i read some of
these stories - or some of these details i had some ideas okay so first of all one of the stats
of the yacht says that has stabilizers whilst underway now you might know the phrase zero speed
stabilizers and that's actually a trademarked name by a company for stabilizers that work
when the boat's not moving the companies called Quantum who build stabilizers for yachts or for ships
this one has stabilizers whilst underway which means that when it's not underway it has no state
no working stabilizers so that can be a problem if you lose power on the vessel and the vessels
now the vessel is now not moving then you've lost your stabilizers right so if they're in
rough weather high winds and they lose power then possible that the vessel is rolling
heavily because it's designed to work with those stabilizers so that's the that's my first theory
if you go to "Cantierri de Pisa" who built the yacht it says on there and also your
charter fleet it says on there that it it has a capacity for 10 guests in 5 cabins plus
a crew of 5 to 6 so that's 16 now the the report said that 18 people were rescued
out of the water including three kids which means the vessel was overloaded so now i'm not
suggesting that a couple of extra people would have any stability issues but
the the fact is that the vessel was overloaded so that's means that when they organize the
charter the captain should have said you can't have more than 10 guests right
which didn't happen which makes me a little bit suspicious about other things that might have been
not done properly now again i have no information to suggest that anything wasn't done properly
and i'm only going by the statistics that i can find online about that vessel
so now the vessel was refit in 2021 now it's possible again a theory it's possible that they
added things to the vessel right so very often an owner when he has a when he buys a used yacht
he wants to make it his own he wants to add things and maybe he wanted to add some things on
high up on the vessel which are quite heavy maybe you know like a jacuzzi or or extra weight and now
unless they counter that down in the keel then it makes the vessel more top-heavy so
more likely to roll in bad weather and that's possible another possibility there's a there's
a drone flying i know a drone just flew overhead um so those are some of the theories that i have
so you have too many people on board you have a refit that's just taking place 2021 which
suggests possible you know that they changed the vessel in some way and added weight and they
haven't increased the ballast of the vessel now if you want to know what can happen when
you do that you go back and watch my Yogi videos which i put which i produced last year about the
thinking of superyacht Yogi and that was one of the things that happened to that vessel when it
was being built is the owner kept adding i want this extra i want this i want to add an extra deck
and they had to add they they did add ballasts to the hull to counter that extra weight up top
but the vessel basically was overloaded in the water and it didn't have it was still within the
limits signed by the agency that built the yacht the rules and regulations but once it got into
rough weather it just it just over it just it was overcome very easily by the weather now if if they
added stuff in the refit that's a possibility i'm like i said i have no information to suggest that
that happened i'm just giving you ideas of what i think could have been the cause right
most likely from my point from with the information i have like i said is
the vessel's got stabilizers whilst underway possibly they had an issue with the generators
with the engines and the vessel was stranded you know adrift and the vessel was rolling
and it got into trouble because of the weather and then it sank anyway that's the information i have
those are the theories that i have on what possible could what could have possibly caused
the vessel to found but anyway we'll find out in the future when the reports
come out and this does take a long time i had some comments from people saying why don't i
follow up on any of the stories that i've done well i mean most of the stories i've done have
been quite recent only in the last few months maybe just some like 5 or 6 months ago
it takes longer than that there are some accidents that have happened four years ago that still
haven't had a final report from the flag state so but i will i do keep checking and i will
bring you information on all the incidents as soon as i have them one thing about the last
story i did about that yacht fire there were a lot of people saying that yachts
fire suppression systems are very bad because i've reported on quite a number of fires the thing is
depending on the size of the vessel depends on the regulations the vessels built to it's a
bit like a house if you build a a big house if you have a house or if you build a hotel
the regulations that are applied to that house or to that hotel are very different and it's the
same with yachts as you get bigger and bigger and bigger the yacht has to go it through more
rigorous um fire protection and things like that so like you know like voyage data recorders
fire suppression etc is more on the bigger vessels this is one of the reasons why a lot of yachts
a lot of people ask why is a vessel only ever 3,000 gross tons why is it
never more or why don't they ever have more than 12 guests well this is because of regulations
so the the owner wants to build the vessel to a set of regulations he doesn't want to have extra
regulations so he builds it at 3,000 tons with 12 guests and then he's only required to build
it to the lower regulation well this vessel will have had will have had um fire suppression in the
engine room the fact is i only theorized that it was an engine room fire in the previous visit
video that's why i wanted to make specific comments that these are just theories
i don't know how that fire started it could have been someone smoking in bed- it could have been
in the galley the chef might have been in there making something and
he's had a fire in the galley- it could have been a lot of reasons but in those areas in the
engine room and in the galley they do have fire suppression systems now a fire suppression system
is only as good as the maintenance it's only as good as the amount of water or fire suppressant
that is in that system and that big enough fire can be can overwhelm a fire suppression system
and and you know fire at sea is the biggest threat to any vessel it's people think it's sinking it's
not it's fire at sea so there are fire suppression systems on all super yachts it just varies on
what kind of system they have based on the size of the and when it was built but that got that
sank the last the last one sorry that caught fire that was a brand new yacht that was it was
less than 12 months old i'm sure it had the best system on board based on its on the regulations
of that yacht all right guys i'm gonna wind up here because i'm i'm rambling a bit so yeah
so thanks very much for watching i hope you and you've enjoyed the videos coming from a different
location like i said this is in Paracas this is down by the Yacht Club the Peruano which
is the the Paracas Yacht Club down here and so we're just getting a nice sunset in the background
all right guys i'll wrap up so thanks very much for watching let me know what you think about this
story if you know any more information if you were there, if you were a crew member on
that vessel be sure to get in touch but let me know in the comments down below what you think
all right guys thanks for watching and i'll see you soon bye
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