this is super yacht news with eSysman
hi welcome back to the channel okay it's time for superyacht news we've got quite a bit going
on today but what i want to do is we're going to be talking about Sheherezade and the
arrest of that vessel .when she was trying to leave in marina de Carrara in Italy she was trying to
leave after a refit but before i go into that i want to talk a little bit about Flying Fox
you'll probably remember from my previous videos that Flying Fox was is a 136 meter giant made by
Lürssen built by Lürssen- she was in Dominican Republic went into the Dominican Republic to
refuel i believe after i believe what was a charter in the Caribbean and the vessel
was arrested there and it was there for a month while they did investigations it was boarded by
U.S ice investigators etc apparently that month stay in the Dominican Republic cost the vessel
a million dollars approximately a million dollars in fees and you know fuel and what have you
birthing fees and stuff anyway she left Dominican Republic after that time in kind of a mysterious
way she just left quietly one early one morning and the only thing that the government said
about the vessel leaving was that she'd left they never gave any statement at the time and then the
vessel just left now after the vessel left it did it circled around the island and headed
east towards across it across the Atlantic and initially they didn't have any destination in
ais they just said tbc to be confirmed and then after they've been going for a while
they changed the the destination AIS changed to Palma the Majorca which i thought was very curious
and the vessel was going to head to spain and and to the same place where tango was
actually seized by the US government so i thought that's very unlikely that it's going
to head there after everything that just happened in Dominican Republic now remember the owner of
this vessel is not on currently on the sanctions list so so that that's important to remember
but obviously that is not necessarily a reason at the moment for a vessel to be arrested just
the fact that it's a Russian billionaire owning it can lead to vessels being arrested right now being
detained so she crossed the atlantic i attracted going across the atlantic she made some curious
changes of course changes probably related to weather as she headed to the Straits of Gibraltar
her as she got close to the streets of Gibraltar her AIS destination changed back to TBC and so
she went through the straits of Gibraltar and she sailed right she didn't go to put to majorca which
i i didn't think she would and she's headed east now at the beginning of this trip while she was on
the early stages of Atlantic crossing i said she i i was gonna say that she was heading to Turkey and
i still believe that is the case. Turkey seems to be a safe haven right now for Russian billionaire
yacht owners there are quite a lot of them there right now and i also think that's possible that
she might refuel in Tunisia because Ragnar did that and and she probably the owner of the
captain of Flying Fox probably observed that and is probably aiming to do the same thing because
it's been proven that they can do it and not have any issues we'll see in a couple of days where
she's going but i think it's a sure thing that she's headed to Turkey for a final destination
all right guys on to the main story now and this is about the the yacht Scheherazade now
i've covered this vessel quite a number of times i made a video a few months ago
called is this Putin superyacht i'll put links in the normal places so you can go and see that and
we talk i talk extensively about the secrecy that goes on around that vessel now that vessel when it
was being built was called project lightning now if you remember the the the video i just did the
last video i did was about motion crescent and that is also tied to Vladimir Putin via
Igor Sechin who is the beneficial owner and these are generally accepted to be proxy owners
for Putin himself now this vessel Sheherazade the ultimate beneficial owner is a a chap
called Eduard Kudenatov that is the name i struggle to pronounce for some reason but
he's down on paper as the owner of this vessel as far as i can tell but if you've been following
the Amadea story that i've been covering on this channel you'll know that his name popped
up with amadea as well so they tried to say that and the US government who believed that
Suleiman Karamov owns that vessel the defense for amadeo was saying that oh no it's owned by
Edward Kudentoff which is the same chap who owns this vessel if you want to watch that video i'll
post a link because i said in that video that it's unlikely he owns both vessels because he doesn't
seem to be wealthy enough to do so and he's most likely proxy owner anyway the story was about
Sheherazade was in refit in Marina de Carrara and so she was out of the water she's in a dry dock
facility and she had the corrugated plastic all over the vessel which is which is common practice
it's installed by the shipyard personnel when the vessel is going into refit it's just protection
for the bulkheads and the deckheads etc so nothing is damaged while that work goes on the vessel was
observed all of this plastic was coming out uh that the refit had finished the vessel
the the dry dock was then filled so the vessel was floating again and it was and and it was seen
the vessel was seen refueling and they believed that the vessel was going to sail any day and
what i would say about that is the press made a big thing about that but what i would say is that
even if a vessel wasn't due to leave the shipyard where it was once that vessel was finished in the
dry dock facility they would do that anyway they would move the vessel out because they want to
use that dry dock for another vessel so the fact that it was that they filled it with water and
that it wasn't necessarily a sign that the vessel was leaving although it could have been so this
vessel is actually bigger than crescent if you watch my last video on m/y Crescent you saw what
a monster that was in there in Tarragona in Spain and you could see there were other big yachts in
that marina and it dwarfed those yachts so the vessels estimated to have cost 700 million dollars
to build so before the yacht could sell the freezing decree was signed by the economy minister
Danielle Franco and the seizure they're using the word seizure but we know it's an arrest the
seizure took place on the evening of friday the 6th of May and the measure had been in the air for
some time so they're saying it's not because the vessel was you know the dry dock was being filled
and they were fueling the vessel that was not the reason why it came out now they've been working on
it for a while and the vessel has been arrested by the guardia de finanza which is the financial
police in Italy and they're usually the ones that do arrests or vessels usually an arrest is for
non-payment of a bill or something like that but they have broad arrest powers okay one last story
45 meter yacht almost sank off the coast of washington grey's harbor Washington after the
transom door failed on the vessel and the vessel started to take on water and the beach club was
almost completely well it was completely flooded there's some dramatic footage here taken by the
coast guard the US coast guard who went to assist the vessel and you can see in the video footage
here the vessel is rolling quite heavily in quite rough seas and also there's a there's at one point
there's a shot of the one of the vessel the coast guard vessels and you can see it rolling a lot
you can see that they've got a line around the the transom door and they're trying to
heave that trying to pull that transom door closed and that you can see that they're trying to use
the capsules to pull that line to close that door but that was unsuccessful in doing so by
the looks of it the vessel was actually towed for 12 hours by the coast guard and then it was taken
over by a private towing firm to tow it to safety the vessel didn't sink amazingly you also in that
video footage you can see there are 2 lifeboats in the water 2 inflatable life refts should i say
and the crew looked like the crew were ready to abandon ship and they would probably just they
put them in the water just in case the vessel did start to go down but quite dramatic footage
but luckily with no injuries everybody got off there were seven crew on board and everybody got
off so that's great news anyway guys i'm gonna leave it there thanks very much for watching
if you've got any information about any of the stories we took we talked about tonight please
get in touch if you are a crew member that was on domini i think the vessel is called
m/y Domini the one that almost sank if you're a crew member please get in touch i would love to
talk to somebody about it about your experiences but yeah that was quite dramatic thing but anyway
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