this is SuperyYacht News with eSysman
superyacht transporter Elmslift Hendricker abandoned by crew in heavy seas -so this story
has come out in the last few days and this was sent to me actually by a couple of people but
one of the guys is a norwegian guy and i'm gonna butcher your name so i apologize Martin
Lehmann, he sent me a story about this yacht transporter
it got into trouble off the coast of Norway - now if you don't know what a yacht transporter is
i've got some footage of it of a different yacht transporter - basically it's a big ship and it's
capable of semi-sinking under the water line and then they sail in these boats and then
they fix them in place and then they push out all the water and basically that it's like
a floating dry dock that is then sailed across the atlantic or across the oceans to wherever
they need to go- one of them got into trouble in Palmer in New York about about 18 months ago
and it was trying to re-float some of the boats after arriving there and they had some issues
with their ballast systems and the boat listed over to one side and some of the boats
fell over or banged against each other - that was quite minor in comparison to
what happened here so this vessel was out at sea in very rough weather
and basically what happened is some of the loads started to move around on the vessel
and put them over into a list because and they couldn't counter it because
the vessels basically moved over against one side and then they were in
serious trouble so what eventually happened is the crew were airlifted from the vessel because
they couldn't sail anywhere there was and there was in danger of capsizing
what has happened since is they've actually the vessels actually lost some of its boats
some of the loads into the water it had a couple of small yachts on there as well
what it seems has happened is kind of reminds me of the Yogi rescue is what they've done is
they've tried to rescue the first person from that from the half deck of the vessel and then
they've decided it was too dangerous for the guy on the winch so they've asked the
further crew to jump - actually jump into the water from the vessel which
must have been terrifying for the crew and then they get rescued from the water
so
and there is some subsequent footage from other helicopters search and rescue that
shows the vessel some sort of tug - that's in the center of the vessel in the
original photos and you can see in the last bit of footage that vessel is now missing
so it must have fallen off into the water - but yeah quite dramatic i think there was a crew
of 12 on board and they were all rescued and since then - what happened is the Schmidt
Rescue Team has gone in to do salvage - they went down to the
Suez canal and got that giant container vessel freed -well they've,
got the contract to salvage this and they basically went in and they've managed to
connect some tugs one to the bow one to the stern and they're now towing that vessel back into
somewhere i'm not sure where right now but yeah so that's it it's a quick story but very dramatic
the footage of this vessel being rested or the of the crew being rescued from this vessel
what the water in the even in the video footage it looks rough and i can tell you if you were on
that vessel it looks 10 times as rough because it never whenever you see rough weather on a video
it doesn't look that bad but in this video it looks pretty bad which means that it was very bad
anyway if keep watching and i'll if i get when i get any updates i will i'll be sure to update
you on this story -all right guys thanks very much for watching and i'll see you next time!