this is superyacht news with eSysman
hi welcome back to the channel hope you all are having a great weekend
so the first thing i wanted to talk about is a yacht that has
changed its name for the second time in in a couple of months on AIS motor yacht Pacific
-this is a vessel that is owned by a Russian and his name is Leonard Mickelson he's the CEO and
major shareholder of Novatek which is a Russian gas company now he he owns this yacht the yacht
was in the news when it because it disappeared it was in Costa Rica it went dark on AIS
it crossed over the Atlantic went through the Med and it reappeared in Turkey now you might
remember about a month ago i was talking about it and i said that the vessel had changed its name
on AIS -it removed its name and it replaced it with its maritime mobile service identity which
is MMSI number- that's the number that's used for something called DSC or digital selective calling -
so you can call on vhf radio or or MFN HF radio and you can call directly to another boat using
this number and it's unique to each boat now that is the only thing on AIS that you cannot change
and they removed the name, replaced it with MMSI so people couldn't find it so easily
when they were searching for that vessel- well they've now they've changed it again and now
they've put the name Pacific with the letter X after it the the vessel is still registered
as motor yacht Pacific on the IMO the International Maritime Organisation website
so yeah so they keep changing the name obviously it's a way to try to avoid being tracked
so the vessel is docked in Marmorous right now so if you're in that area and you can get near
where it's docked i'll show you where it is on the screen be sure to take a photograph try and get
a shot of the stern so we can verify if the the name is actually changed or they're just putting
random names into the AIS system now- all right so we'll move on to the next story now this is about
motor yacht Amadea now no introduction needed for Amadea right -this is the vessel that was seized
by the US government in Fiji and sailed to the US and has been docked in San Diego ever since well
i have a few people contacting me telling me that the vet they were planning to move the vessel
because it was attracting quite a lot of attention in the location where it was
and also apparently and i can't verify this independently but apparently a few people tried
to actually get on board the vessel- the thing that you should know is -any yacht
regardless of of where it is -you might walk along in a marina somewhere and you might see a yacht
with its gangway down and a sign across the same private no entry and there's nobody around right
and you might think oh i can just walk on board but you can't because they've all got security
cameras and they are being monitored so if you do try to get onto a boat you will be challenged
pretty quickly so anyway this is why we think the vessel was moved and now it's been moved around
to a more secluded area - i think you can get to it there's a park right near
it in San Diego called Peppa Park which is where Peppa pig lives i'm told that's a joke by the way
so you'd probably be able to go to that park that it looks like it's got a little
jetty there you could probably see the boat from there but i think it's more secure in
terms that you can't walk up to the boat to to get any closer so -oh by the way i just wanted to
point out i pointed out the joke there even though i think it's quite obvious but in the last video
or the second to last video i mentioned the fact that we needed to clip together and buy
the guy who was counting the bids for motor yacht Axioma a new letter opener and i got like
20 comments saying it's not just about opening envelopes -that was a joke people just so you
don't just see you know- i think i'm gonna have to put the word joke on the screen in future
when i do jokes because every time i i tried to make a joke okay maybe it wasn't very funny
but every time i tried to make a joke some that i get like 20 people writing in the comments
explaining why that's not what's happening so anyway let's move on -so this is the main reason
for this video today i've seen in the news and i've had quite a few people contact me to say that
the yacht that sank in Italy last week was owned by a Russian
and now this is in the mainstream media the Daily Mail online has put out a story and it's
been syndicated to MSN online which is which goes out all over the world right and this is i think
the reason why people have been contacting me and also the reason why this story is out there
and i've seen it myself -the story says that that he owns the yacht motor yacht Life Saga and it
belongs to a chap called Gennady Ivasyan- (now that that's i probably butchered that name but it is
very complicated i'll put it on the screen you can see how complicated that is to pronounce ) -now
they are correct he does own a yacht called Life Saga but it's a 65 meter or 213 foot yacht called
"Life Saga" built by "Admiral Yachts" which is part of the "Italian Sea Group" the vessel that sang
however is not called "Life Saga" it's just simply called motor yacht Saga or m/y Saga if you look
on AIS my space Saga you'll find it and it'll show you the last location which is right where it sank
now if i show you this which is life Saga you'll see it's currently in Sardinia
so as far as i know sunken yachts do not broadcast AIS in different locations to where they sank so
yeah so that is a bad story out there- now it is possible he owned both yachts right so we cannot
eliminate that right now because it's been very difficult to try to find out who actually owns
the yacht that did sink and i can kind of understand why those journalists
made the mistake because there is no trail for the yacht that sank and what i mean by that is
if you look on AIS there's no IMO number which is the unique number that you can go and search for
a vessel with the IMO number- the MMSI number does not come back to a vessel called Saga and if you
say if you search the MMSI number on google you will find plenty of web pages talking about the
vessel -none of the vessels show that IMO number so it's a bit of a mystery- i'm not trying to start a
conspiracy theory or anything but it is a little bit of a mystery as to who owns this boat so if
you happen to know this - if you maybe you work for Lloyd's or you work for somebody who's
in the know because we can't find any information so that's probably why they made that mistake but
still it is pretty bad mistake to make for a mainstream news outlet okay one and one last story
this came in from subscriber motor hacht Fountain Head was leaving Boston heading down to long island
and in the US- of course and it was showing a speed of 102 knots so it was actually when i did a track
of the vessel it was going between zero and 102 knots which obviously the vessel's not doing 102
knots so they've got a problem on board with the the data that's shared with AIS -now the system on
board that measures speed on a yacht is they have a GPS feed but they also use something called
a dopple log which gives you a speed of what something called speed over ground or speed
through water and basically this is the easy version it sends out radio signal from the
whole of the vessel down and then it it bounces off the ground the seabed and comes back up and
that's called speed over ground and if the vessel is in you know it's a thousand meters and it it
selects a pre-determined depth to bounce the sound frequency off and that return on
the hull of the vessel they can work out how fast the vessel is doing relative speed based
on the return of that signal and i think there's probably something wrong with the transducer -
i've had experience with this myself i was on a yacht once and we were in a
shipyard we were docked and the speed over ground was saying we were doing about 80 knots
so we definitely were not doing 80 knots because of a fault with a transducer so that's probably
the issue that's happening there but yeah i thought that was quite funny when i saw the
speed yeah i'll put the track on the screen you can see it -all right guys i'm going to leave it
there just one last thing i want to say is please watch my video i just put out a video
it's a mini documentary -it's called "Millions- staggering monthly costs of seized superyachts"
and it's about how much the Italian government is paying to hold on to sailing yacht A
Sheherezade and a few other yachts and some properties in Sardinia as well owned by Russian
billionaires who were on the sanctions list -("an invasion of Ukraine created sanctions unlike
anything Russia had ever seen from the west as a result of these sanctions we look at the crippling
costs of millions of euros a month the Italian government are paying to keep assets frozen")
the comments i'm getting back from it are really good but i'm just surprised that not so many
of you have chosen to watch it so far so please check it out- it's only a 10 minute video and it's
it was a lot of research went into it a lot of a lot of work went into that video so
i would appreciate if you watch it and then let me know what you think in the comments.
all right guys i'm going to leave it there thanks very much for watching you know how to do it if
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all right enjoy the rest of your weekend bye-bye. - after the vessel was arrested by the Italian
authorities both Melnachenko's yachts lost their flag state as they were deregistered
by the Isle of Man shipping registry they also had their Lloyd's classification withdrawn all
as a result of the sanctions this meant both vessels would also lose their insurance as