The MAIB collects reports from crew which cannot be used to prosecute. It’s used to establish facts and true happenings rather than to apportion blame.
Absolutely the opposite. Causes are never found and lessons never learned if you can't establish a proper timeline, who said/did what when; you'll never get that info if people can't speak freely; and under legal jeopardy nobody speaks freely.
I'm absolutely astounded that the crew was exonerated, especially the chief engineer. How on earth was a ship of that scale allowed to sail without a working communications system? Do they not go through some type of inspection before leaving port? I'd be quite curious to see a submersible take a gander at the ship to gather additional info. Great video! Certainly piqued my interest.
A huuuge insurance claim like that and the insurer isn't interested in retrieving the voyage recorder? Not even gonna take a peek and a photo or two of the sunken vessel? If that was an old paddle boat of mine sunk in the lake my insurer would probably have divers out to bring 'er back to the surface so they could somehow roast me. Even if I was outta town when the thing went down. Geez. Some guys have all the luck.
I have zero interest in yachts or sinking yachts. Don't know why YT recommended it. Only wanted to watch something to distract me from the riot coverage. Your production was good enough to keep me here through both videos. Bravo
Rioting is the minority, the vast majority are peaceful protests and there have even been protesters forming human shields to protect police who have been separated from their units from rioters.
2 critical phone systems not working on a brand new ship, Hmmmmmm. No UHF radios even though the ship had 15, Hmmmmmm. 16.4 knots or was it 14 knots, Hmmmmmm. Grabbed all their personal papers (passports), but not critical ships logs and documents, Hmmmmmm. Changing stories, Hmmmmmm. Im pretty sure all this adds up to fraud.
Your right about the radios! I watch that vlog from a super yacht captain Tristan Mortlock, in all his videos all the crew have a VHF radio when they are under way! They are in the middle of heavy seas in a bad storm & they can't communicate with each other are you kidding me? Add the fact the yard owner was shot in the head, heck of a lot going on here!
Watched the first part of the documentary and became captivated or intrigued on how it(YOGI) went down! I know nothing about boats or yacht in this case but found this to be extremely easy to understand! Great job explaining everything! I'm sure there will be more to come Thanks.
The fact that the French "fixed" the reported speed and load issue by just fudging the number is outrageous and sickening. Instead of treating it as an investigative lead they acted like a kid grading his own math homework. How can they possibly be qualified to assign blame when their own treatment of the facts is so obviously questionable?
also wondering if other ship licencing authorities (other than the newly setup french one that was used) would have required the blackbox recorder for that sized ship
Yeah even 14knots would be way over 60% load. My guess captain wouldnt listen and hammered that thing till it shut down. Quick work on rear seals etc added to by water ingress from no control. 16knots in 7meter seas is crazy.
@*MGTOW* THUNDERCOCK FEMBOT No, builders do not put time in vessels already doomed for fraud en shipwrecking, as this one certainly is. Ton's of lawyers, confidentially imposted, strange errors and missing logbooks, that cannot be anything other than fraud. Shame for the builders who took a lot of time and effort in such a ship.
As a follow up to our brief exchange of texts in the 1st episode on Yogi, You did a great job of laying out the facts. There are too many unanswered questions. There are too many pieces that do not fit. I have found that when a business owner, or in this case a yacht owner, finds himself in a difficult financial situation they often have a difficult time handling the crisis well. The owner of this boat appears to have run a con job on a senile wealthy women. Once the financier's professional experts got involved the yacht owner was going to have to pay her back or file bankruptcy. He should have just filed bankruptcy and let the chips fall where they may. Once again, although my memory of going through the evidence in 2013 is 7 years old, you did a great job on the research.
Whenever I have investigated oil spills, equipment failures and human accidents in oil and gas, there are always multiple failures that lead to disaster. Small mistakes individually do very little, but compounded make a huge mess. Far too many coincidences in the facts here that point toward deliberate omissions and dereliction of duty or abandonment of SOP's. Just based on what you have presented, if I were investigating this case for an insurance company I could only draw the conclusion of deliberate sinking.
LOL, no! It's *difficult* to make food in harsh seas. Making food in harsh seas takes much longer, because otherwise you would have food, knives et.c flying around in the galley. The chef maybe just anticipating worse weather or just want to make a lot of food so he don't have to do it again. Please don't assume too much UA-cam keyboard sailor.
i mean i am by no means an expert but i find it very strange that by a total of 8 crew they did not had even a crew chef on board for that long of a passage. on top, the chief engineer usually having 3 systems to comunicate with the bridge, 2 failed and the third he had not on him? who the fuck wants to beleave that from a experianced seaman ?????
It is true especially in aviation that "most" tragedies are a series errors that themselves won't be catastrophic. BUT man does this stink something awful. Shame it was a catalyst for a man losing his life.
Hey, Yacht captain. BlackStorm here. I wish for you to do a lego yacht pulled behind your real yacht. Do you think they could be a possible new video? Also I heard about the yacht collision. Hope it gets fixed!
They should build in areas you can clamp to on the hull and raise the entire ship. These things are expensive. There is no reason they should not be able to send a submersible down there and attach a cable to the thing, then tether it to a balloon.
@Peg Leg I kenna hold 'er Cuptin, She's breakin' oop, She's gunna bloo Spock; Sensors indicate a temperature increase in both port and starboard engines Captain; Flood the engine room, that'll cool 'em down. Spock; Your decision, not mine.
I work on super yachts and there is absolutely something going on here. Way too many "inoperable" systems all at once for a cream of the crop super yacht of all types of boats and a new build nonetheless. Then conveniently out of 3 independent means of bridge-to-engine control room communication methods, they all don't work?! As well as the annoying alarm you get if all watertight doors aren't closed and secure under way? I do however question how you would convince a professional yacht crew to risk their own lives to help the owner commit fraud. The captain was probably in on it, silencing alarms in the 3 second inhibit period before the engineer on watch would notice them to get the boat to a state where it could not be saved and then just having crew carry on with their muster duties. Confidentiality clause probably drafted for the moments he told them to leave the log books and other documents that would normally have been someones duty on the muster list. Why the bilge pumps and bow thrusters were not used after all the engineers would have surely noticed a flooded compartment and lack of steering is a mystery on its own too.
They should have had it towed to my Port City I would gladly take ownership of it. It would never leave the Harbor because I can’t afford to fuel it but I would ❤️ to make it my Home.
Realistically, I don't expect to ever be in a position to own a super yacht or be responsible for hiring crew for one. However, I will definitely chose you (if you're willing) if that time ever comes. Thank you for yet another great video! I love the production quality and your objective review of events. Cheers to you and yours, Captain!
This is so nuts, its amazing that a gov agency cant work out these simple details, but and no offense here, a youtuber with 64k subs can put this all together.
He's no mere UA-camr. He has been in this industry for some time and is familiar with the laws and proper protocols. People with real experience and skill are so valuable and they are tough to replace.
adam travis - But hold on, be careful, I presume this video has shaped your thoughts around this sinking yacht. It’s the first and major piece of information I have ever heard about it. Be careful and thinking that accident investigators are a bunch of boneheads. Have you actually read the report from the governmental investigators? I’m actually someone who often goes to the direct source and read that information and does way too much research for stuff that doesn’t even matter. I’m no expert but I try to be thorough a decent amount of the time. But it depends on what mood I am in and if I have nothing to do or whatever. At this point I do not see myself doing any more than watching/listening while I work or do different activities. But I keep an open mind. Too often people are influence by the first evidence they receive and that sets their opinion even if they believe they can keep an open mind. Also people are often affected by confirmation bias. And example could be if they tend to think the government messes stuff up then they are extremely likely to believe that if there’s any evidence to believe so. Or another type of bias is presentation bias, which means people who are susceptible to that will believe the evidence that is presented in a way that “reaches them best“ rather than taking the evidence and weighing it based on the facts/information rather than production value. And the problem with biases are even if someone is told about them it doesn’t mean they can completely correct their mind to stop that bias. Even someone who is very good at correcting their bias won’t necessarily correct it completely, or they could over correct too. The mind is a very strange thing. That’s something that actually is interesting to learn about: how the mind works AND how memory works.
Yipes! You’ve shared quite a story. I can’t imagine the utter desperation and weight on the shoulders of the deceased man. Little things aren’t to be dismissed. Huge life lessons here.
Owner realized his toy was an overpriced lemon so he chose to take the insurance value. Possibly only two or three crew needed to be aware of the plan. That is one possible theory. International authorities love to play hot potato with tragedies. There's no money in a hard pursuit of justice.
Titanic had a lookalike sister ship. There is a coverup story with the sinking of the Titanic as well, for similar reasons you mentioned. But authorities and official stories are burried (as usual with high profile cases).
@@ses4068 The titanic sister ship was different size and less funnels on top. James Cameron when he went down and filmed the ship also confirmed that it was indeed the titanic that sank.
This is not a possible theory, it's a conspiracy theory and you can debunk it simply by doing a bit of logical thinking. As the video alludes to, no crew is going to sink their ship intentionally in 500m of water because the likelihood of killing themselves in the process is so high. This was an accident caused by a lot of things going wrong over a period of time combined with completely incompetent management from the captain. It's how every serious accident happens. Regardless of whether you are run over, get in a plane crash, fall under a train or go bankrupt it's never one thing that goes wrong it's always a lot of things that when combined together in the "right" order cause an unrecoverable situation.
If this was an insurance scam then only the owner, who was in financial difficulties, stood to gain. The shipyard stood to lose its reputation; the Certifying Authority also stood to lose its reputation, and the crew stood to lose the licences or worst their lives. If the sinking was instigated by the owner, how did he pull it off? The most likely explanation is that it was brought about by a series of design flaws compounded by a tired crew. It’s easy to blame the crew, but that had at best a few hours to identify the faults and rectify the situation, assuming that it was recoverable. The investigation had months in which to identify the issues. Responsibility lies with the shipyard and the Certifying Authority.
Very interesting presentation. Beautiful looking yacht. That was a lot of retrofitting, and updating so soon after the launch. 5 months of a "punch list" tells me it should never have been launched and handed off to the owners. Sounds like this yacht was a "LEMON" right out of the gate. Convenient that it sank in 1500' ft of water. No records, ships logs, captains logs, EPIRB didn't work. Something sounds fishy about YOGI.
As someone who has grown up on luxury motor yachts, it is heartbreaking to see such a beautiful boat sink. Deliberate or accidental, this is a shocking and sad story, and it is a shame that reputations came before official reports. It is also sickening to hear of the CEO of the building company committing suicide. Very good video, covered everything I needed to know.
Everything about that is sinister. After Part 1 I didn't really believe that an owner Hellbent on sinking their own ship could manage to recruit an entire crew to carry it out, after Part 2 my belief has changed. I am beyond astounded, but that is certainly how it appears. I realize that the governing bodies had much more data, time and experience but does it not seem just a little bit fortunate that they seem to have sided with the owner...at least for the most part. It's all so shady that I'm nearly ready to go all in and declare that the suicide was made to appear as one. Incredibly interesting story, if you have more please do share them.
Use your brain sir. For what you are saying to be correct every member of the crew must have decided that they were prepared to risk their lives by scuttling a ship in the middle of a deep sea. If they wanted to do an insurance job they could have chosen a lot of safer places to do it that are nearer land. Even if they had decided to sink it for insurance you then have 15-20 crew members who would all need to be in on the ruse and have the same story and be loyal to each other until the end, despite only having met a few months prior. Then of course you have no idea when the bulkhead door would fail, or the engines overhear so you might get to your destination before anything went wrong. In summary, there a lot of easier ways to sink a ship than this that don't come with a lot of unknowns and risks. Conspiracy theories are easy to debunk when you use a bit of logical thinking.
@@ruk2023-- You need to improve your observation skills. There were only 8 people on board and only 4 of them were involved in the actual details of the casualty.
A new boat with 8 watertight doors, bilge pumps flood alarms etc, something does not make sense here. There was an immense screw up to sink this boat, accidental or with intent hard to figure!
@@rk24133927 And a watertight door doesn't "spring open" that's kind of impossible unless you are like 300 ft underwater with air on one side and water on the other.
Great investigative work, well done. As for the reasons why she's with Davy Jones, no one will ever know, but, the captain running the engines with the taps fully open in those heavy seas, and watertight doors bursting open? The least I expected to see was a few gross negligence charges handed out. Once again, very good video's.
Liked the 2 videos. It reminded me of the time we took our jet boat out and forgot to open the coolant valve. Overheated the Chevy 350 to the point it quit. Then as the seawater cooled it sucked the valves at the exhaust ports inward and we were going down alright. Luckily we just made it back to the ramp with the help of a passing boat and hustled to get it back on the trailer. I wouldn’t want the exhaust below the waterline after that. Maiden and final voyage too.
Very well laid out reports ...absolutely worth all the time you spent on them. These 2 parts were as well presented as any high-end professional news company would/could do. This whole situation comes across as very corrupt in several areas ... By the time I got to the end of this story , I started to wonder about " Your " safety ... I don't know how well all this was documented/reported several years back, but having brought a story ( so well presented from the beginning to the end ).. back into the public eye , that it sure sounds like a lot of people would just as soon leave laying down deep on the ocean floor , it makes me wonder if this is the last we've heard of Yogi . I'm sure "You're " fine and all is probably going to stay as it is, but that's how good your presentation was. Very much enjoy your channel Bob from Calgary
This occurred to me as well. They couldn't really blame inspections and certifications in most main design categories, since they were the ones who inspected it and certified it. Also it occurs to me that even if the Shipyard had given the OK to a new refitting or work, isn't the crew supposed to do their own checks. It seems that nothing worked on this ship, and nobody knew how to deploy contingency plans when main systems failed. You would think that the crew had to have some major part of the responsibility for this even if it was faulty equipment or refitting, since it seems they either did everything wrong, or not at all. The only thing they were good at was calling the Grecian Coast guard with their wallets and passports in their trousers. Then again, what do I know. I am not a sailor. My Dad had a boat, and we had fun as kids, I've always wanted one but haven't had the time or money. So I'm no expert. But as a fan from afar, this just doesn't seem plausible. Why weren't the pumps used. Why couldn't they manage to manually get at least a neutral rudder so they could steer with bow thrusters at low speed. Again. Im no expert. But it seemed like this could have been handled better. I think there was either complicity, or fatigue and panic. But I don't want to convict anyone falsely. Maybe France should stick to pastries as well. Their report didnt seem to helpful Databyter
There are way too many inconsistencies, rules broken with incompetent decision making, only to bring one to conclude, the ship was scuttled. This was a excellent narrated piece.
Well researched - without opinion - just the facts and observations of contradictory points of data - really well done video. Thank you - very complete and professional review.
A brand new yacht, No data recorder, No communicating devices employed on board, a series of unfortunate events, and a cascade of failures, seen from the specs you offered when she went in for all of that pre-sail work, wreaks of major incompetence. When the Oceanos sank off SA, it was a water incursion below deck. All the "water tight door work," and the punching of the studs in beach club 1 and 2, seem to be a starting point for sinking. I think the vessel was sunk intentionally. Nobody cared to collect logs, but they got their passports and certificates. Why did nobody think that was a bit strange, yet that's what they did. When people start killing themselves after a disaster, you know something is fishy !!
Jeremy Andrews Watertight doors don’t ‘burst’ open under water pressure. They can be left undogged or simply left open and they can’t help if that’s the case.
@@clayz1 Hi. I was trying to flesh out the work they had done on the beach club 1 and 2, and the possibility that the door failed because of the work done on them, i was not trying to intimate that they burst open, but failed in some manner as you said. I guess I worded it not so well. thanks.
That 10 year old child has more common sense than the whole of French inspectors and great critical thinking skills. You have a winner and you should be extremely proud of him. I don't even know him but I'm proud of him. Kudos to all of you.
As always, a well laid out, informative video. Thank you. I shan't speculate as to why this vessel had such a tragic end. Far too many variables involved. And far to little knowledge on my part.
Really like these two videos. Have you ever thought about doing a ship version of aircraft investigations? Not just for super yachts but all type of ships? I bet a lot of people would watch that
As I was doing this series I thought about doing more. They are very labour intensive however so if I did them more often I’d not have time for anything else. Each video took a week of studying the info and writing and editing.
@@YachtReport Please do make more of these, perhaps recruit an assistant to help out with the leg work like research, etc to save you time. You can see from the comments how much people like and appreciate the mystery stories.
Agreed. As a sailor I like to learn from the situations where things didn't go so well. All too often I see articles about boat mishaps, with few details and no follow up on cause. Hard to learn much from that.
I don't think that an insurance would pay this. i don't even think that the yacht was payed all at once. probably the builders company will pay for it or their insurance.
@@shmokey-rust5510 You sound dumb. Who would not want tens of millions in cash instead of a depreciating asset they don't want that costs them $40M and more each year.
That story by the crew sounds like absolute crap. Especially the engineer's story. Both comms "fail" so he goes up to the bridge to shutdown the engine when he's less than 20 feet from the engine shutoff. That makes absolutely no sense.
As usual, it appears that was a sequence of events leading up to a catastrophic event. The modifications in the ship yard such as not testing the Beach Club hatch after the seals were re-done stands out as a good example. But that the wired communications between Chief Engineer and Skipper were not working and then they did not use the VHF radios? What on earth?! Thanks eSysman for a detailed review of this. What a sad story, with the CEO taking his life.
The two videos were amazing and I waited crazy for the second time and it did not disappoint I was sitting on the edge of my chair watching it I had to watch it three times over just to pick up all of the pieces of information And I would love to see more things like this I’ve told a few of my friends about part one and they have watched it and they also I’ve been waiting for the part two to come out It was brilliant absolutely brilliant thank you
Great video, raises lots of good questions regarding how the industry not only investigates but also trains crew members for unexpected failures. Along with the whole question of design that does not prove to be fail-safe. To me this raises concern about every sector not just one.
Why the full speed in rough seas? Was the captain expected to arrive at the destination at a certain time by the owner? Or he (captain) just liked pushing things to the limit? In any case, note to self: no beach club when I commission my super yacht!
The weight of the extra fuel bunkered would have been helpful in sinking the vessel. The captain was doubtless speeding to get to their prederermined scuttling location to give them sufficient time to sabotage the vessel beyond its point of recovery, and to ensure that their rescue would be carried out in daylight...
This was a very interesting Mini~Series you put together...Yogi was definitely riddled with issues. But I would have to agree with the official report...A multitude of issues and errors collided simultaneously resulting in the loss of a large vessel. Thankfully no lives were lost...Well minus the CEO who committed suicide.
I will say, I work on tugboats and unless the engine is on fire or a fuel line split you never shut down an engine without notifying the captain 1st. You try to never shut down an engine in bad weather. To touch on the subject of using bow/stern thrusters, they don't always work well in bad weather. Hell there's time they don't work well in a breezy day. At work we have to assist super yachts docking and undocking because they don't have enough to counter act wind and max current.
Full power in weather, working all day on night of departure. Sounds like management was under time pressure. Good Captains and Chief Engineers don’t allow this kind of pressure to be exerted on them. We say whoa, and shut ‘er down. Same thing happened with the El Faro. A multitude of vessel issues, but not fatal ones, except for crew incompetence and lack of balls to stand up to owners and managers. The new owners and shipmates that these guys work with should consider themselves warned.
I don't understand how so many things were broken on a new boat after it had already been in for warranty repair. There had to be either sabotage or just crazy incompetent people involved.
There is absolutely no evidence to confirm that there were any faults whatsoever with the vessel, only the word of the crew, whose actions, inactions and statements raise many ignored questions.
Interesting conclusion. Well... sort of. The multiple errors/situations being lined up and occurring in perfect order, I believe is called the ‘Swiss Cheese’ effect. Thanks for the video
Swiss cheese...also a line a dominoes. The Titanic has a long line of dominoes, any one of which if removed, would have kept them all from tipping over, and kept the ship from sinking
Some questions still to be answered: • Why did the captain put his ship in an 8-force storm? Why the rush? • Why were bilge alarms not triggered? What kind of automatic control system did the yacht have? • How did the bilge pumps fail? Yogi seemed to have power even just before fully submerged. What stopped the pumps? Bilge pump, back-up bilge pump, fire pump? • What happened to the watertight walls? How did the large yacht fill with so much water? • Rudder and machine cooling systems are completely independent systems. Why and how did the rudder lock? Every yacht has an emergency steering system. Why was this not used by the crew? When was the last time the emergency rudder drill was done? This is important as it prevents the boat from grounding. Especially considering that the ship sank in about 7 hours! • Why was the ship not attempted to be grounded? There is no mention of this possibility and option in the report? • Why was it not mentioned in the report that the AIS device was turned off? Why was this mandatory device not active? • How can the onboard communication system not work on a yacht that leaves for warranty service? All of these yachts have mini VHF or UHFs. Everyone on duty has to have their radio on. • Where is the log book of Yogi? Why didn't crew take any record with them? Receiving journals is part of the abandon ship drill. No sane captain would ever leave the ship without a logbook! According to other sources, they took their crew passports and money with them. Where is the port departure checklist? • Were the crew's water tightness checks recorded? • According to the statements of Captain, communication was established with the Coast Guard, insurance company and the navy. So why was the shipyard not contacted? Why wasn't any technical support received? • According to the report, the ship made 100nm in 7.2 hours, maintaining a speed of 14 knots in the period from the east of Strati Island to the first engine failure. Therefore, it would not be correct to assume that the boat has been taking water for a long time. If it were, there would be a decrease in speed. Yogi suddenly started taking water. But why and how?
After all this incompetence, doubtful. Payoffs are normally a huge PITA to try and keep secret but I bet they were paid off quite openly. "Compensation"
Even a stupid person would not put their payouts in a bank.....or any other public holding place......1st place the investigation would check, and down the road too....
Haaah! I hate to call exhaustion incompetence, but sure looking more and more like the crews fault than fraud to me.👍👍 good to see another vid!! Cheers!!
Thanks for sharing this 2 part story. I really enjoyed it. It would be cool if you could cover some other incidents at sea like this periodically. I just can't imagine that the crew would be in on some sort of "insurance scam" or something where they willingly allow the vessel to get into trouble like this and sink. The risk would be to great to be complicit in something like that. That was a heck of a sea rescue and they are all fortunate to have survived being pulled off that ship in those horrible conditions. My vote is fault lies with the design and construction that was compounded by some very poor decision making by crew.
Premeditated sinking seems a bit too risky, over speeding and overheating to get to Cannes seems more likely. "Getthereitis" or what it is called. Many small airplane accidents happen that way.
A more appropriate term would be celebrityitus. The pressure, overt or not, to do what the famous person or boss wants forgetting that you are the captain in charge.
I don't know if it is common practice for a shipyard anywhere to hand a half-done vessel over to its owner, but it looks like there was a lot of pressure by the owner to get it done. The same goes for the obviously tired crew, I can't imagine it was their decision to go under this circumstances. Finally, a fixed "investigation" sums it up.
As you say it's never one factor, I do think it was insurance fraud, I definitely don't think every one of the crew were involved, but I think that the overheating engine wasn't something they had planned to do, and were going at over 16 knots to get to a suitable location, to sink the ship. However we will never know as long as you have money/backed up by Money justice is rarely served.
All that money for a Super Yacht with that much issues? The 2nd time it went into dry dock, warranty or not, I would have been at the builder demanding a refund.
Yachts tend to be a hole in the ocean you pour money into. You're incredibly unlikely to get a refund for one either, especially if the shipyard is performing the warranty repairs as requested - you can demand a refund all you want but you're not getting one without a very long, expensive legal battle.
Forget going back to sea , you should go in to suspense thriller novels , your keeping the audience on there edge of there seats 😂 . Great videos as always 👍.
Well done video series. Have you done more of these? This may be a new series I will have to watch during my down time this summer. Keep up the good work.
Whatever said by the crew would be held in the strictest of confidence? *Red Flag.*
The MAIB collects reports from crew which cannot be used to prosecute. It’s used to establish facts and true happenings rather than to apportion blame.
it's quite normal to have a communications blackout like that while accident investigations (criminal or not) are ongoing. No red flag here.
Absolutely the opposite. Causes are never found and lessons never learned if you can't establish a proper timeline, who said/did what when; you'll never get that info if people can't speak freely; and under legal jeopardy nobody speaks freely.
@@Blenks87 And so you have an "endorsement" of irresponsibility.
@@pkgum6910 not at all. The MAIB is used to establish reliable facts retrospectively not apportion blame.
I'm absolutely astounded that the crew was exonerated, especially the chief engineer. How on earth was a ship of that scale allowed to sail without a working communications system? Do they not go through some type of inspection before leaving port?
I'd be quite curious to see a submersible take a gander at the ship to gather additional info.
Great video! Certainly piqued my interest.
A huuuge insurance claim like that and the insurer isn't interested in retrieving the voyage recorder? Not even gonna take a peek and a photo or two of the sunken vessel? If that was an old paddle boat of mine sunk in the lake my insurer would probably have divers out to bring 'er back to the surface so they could somehow roast me. Even if I was outta town when the thing went down. Geez. Some guys have all the luck.
didn't you hear about Pinocchio the same story no difference
@@dffndjdjd I could get it done for half that. Insurance company should had done it
After reading that report insurance company should have said "Ain't paying. Sue us"
Their names need to be made public. Imagine hiring one of them :-0 No thanks
I have zero interest in yachts or sinking yachts. Don't know why YT recommended it. Only wanted to watch something to distract me from the riot coverage. Your production was good enough to keep me here through both videos. Bravo
Same here lol.
Yt does that
Stop watching mainstream media so much, also try staying off of Facebook. These 2 simple things can make the quality of your life so much better
Rioting is the minority, the vast majority are peaceful protests and there have even been protesters forming human shields to protect police who have been separated from their units from rioters.
you shouldn't have watched it then...with zero interest
2 critical phone systems not working on a brand new ship, Hmmmmmm. No UHF radios even though the ship had 15, Hmmmmmm. 16.4 knots or was it 14 knots, Hmmmmmm. Grabbed all their personal papers (passports), but not critical ships logs and documents, Hmmmmmm. Changing stories, Hmmmmmm. Im pretty sure all this adds up to fraud.
There were certainly many strange things going on right!
Would be interesting to know how many other vessels go to sea with a faulty wired communications systems.
Your right about the radios! I watch that vlog from a super yacht captain Tristan Mortlock, in all his videos all the crew have a VHF radio when they are under way! They are in the middle of heavy seas in a bad storm & they can't communicate with each other are you kidding me? Add the fact the yard owner was shot in the head, heck of a lot going on here!
Hmmmmmm 🤔
Lol that's exactly what I was thinking within the first couple minutes of the video. Sounds like a big insurance scam
Watched the first part of the documentary and became captivated or intrigued on how it(YOGI) went down! I know nothing about boats or yacht in this case but found this to be extremely easy to understand! Great job explaining everything! I'm sure there will be more to come Thanks.
Agreed. Very well done!
The fact that the French "fixed" the reported speed and load issue by just fudging the number is outrageous and sickening. Instead of treating it as an investigative lead they acted like a kid grading his own math homework. How can they possibly be qualified to assign blame when their own treatment of the facts is so obviously questionable?
also wondering if other ship licencing authorities (other than the newly setup french one that was used) would have required the blackbox recorder for that sized ship
Vi va la di France. 📉😎📈
Texas.
Bigger than France.
Yeah even 14knots would be way over 60% load. My guess captain wouldnt listen and hammered that thing till it shut down. Quick work on rear seals etc added to by water ingress from no control. 16knots in 7meter seas is crazy.
The ones who gained the most from all this were the Dutch, Italian and German superyacht builders.
What do you mean exactly?
@*MGTOW* THUNDERCOCK FEMBOT No, builders do not put time in vessels already doomed for fraud en shipwrecking, as this one certainly is. Ton's of lawyers, confidentially imposted, strange errors and missing logbooks, that cannot be anything other than fraud. Shame for the builders who took a lot of time and effort in such a ship.
They have all their cuts in profits
@@ashutoshbharadwaj306 Absolutely, very sad indeed.
Join min I'm kk pop
This was every bit as intriguing as part 1. I'm mystified as to how the crew escaped without any damage to their respective careers. Nice job 👍😎
Seems like YOGI spent more time in dry dock than she did at sea.
not anymore lol
@@mormonund3rwear ooooof
@@mormonund3rwear brutal ! 😅
Yogi just wanted to be a submarine 😂
She'll be spending all of her time at sea now! LoL!
As a follow up to our brief exchange of texts in the 1st episode on Yogi, You did a great job of laying out the facts. There are too many unanswered questions. There are too many pieces that do not fit. I have found that when a business owner, or in this case a yacht owner, finds himself in a difficult financial situation they often have a difficult time handling the crisis well. The owner of this boat appears to have run a con job on a senile wealthy women. Once the financier's professional experts got involved the yacht owner was going to have to pay her back or file bankruptcy. He should have just filed bankruptcy and let the chips fall where they may. Once again, although my memory of going through the evidence in 2013 is 7 years old, you did a great job on the research.
i remember the case
creep takes advantage of old lady...
Whenever I have investigated oil spills, equipment failures and human accidents in oil and gas, there are always multiple failures that lead to disaster. Small mistakes individually do very little, but compounded make a huge mess. Far too many coincidences in the facts here that point toward deliberate omissions and dereliction of duty or abandonment of SOP's. Just based on what you have presented, if I were investigating this case for an insurance company I could only draw the conclusion of deliberate sinking.
What you are describing is James Reasons accident causation model
@Pedro DLR He's just offering his opinions.. Do you expect him to research this in his free time or something?
Were packed lunches prepared in the galley? Typical sign of a premeditated sinking.
Hilarious!! :)
I sink slow. 📉😎📈
LOL, no!
It's *difficult* to make food in harsh seas. Making food in harsh seas takes much longer, because otherwise you would have food, knives et.c flying around in the galley.
The chef maybe just anticipating worse weather or just want to make a lot of food so he don't have to do it again.
Please don't assume too much UA-cam keyboard sailor.
@@charonstyxferryman on a small yacht maybe, i worked on super yachts they have stabilisers keeping them atleast reasonably level in the water
i mean i am by no means an expert but i find it very strange that by a total of 8 crew they did not had even a crew chef on board for that long of a passage. on top, the chief engineer usually having 3 systems to comunicate with the bridge, 2 failed and the third he had not on him? who the fuck wants to beleave that from a experianced seaman ?????
Worse case of buyers remorse I've ever seen.
Rick Davis This made me legit laugh out loud. 😂 Thanks!
topped only by your jealous and mean-spirited comment, right?
It is true especially in aviation that "most" tragedies are a series errors that themselves won't be catastrophic. BUT man does this stink something awful. Shame it was a catalyst for a man losing his life.
I think in aviation investigations the truth does come out.. in this case, it was just one big coverup..
Really interesting mini series. Very well done. 🙏
Can't wait to see you guys back on the water
Hey, Yacht captain. BlackStorm here. I wish for you to do a lego yacht pulled behind your real yacht. Do you think they could be a possible new video? Also I heard about the yacht collision. Hope it gets fixed!
They should build in areas you can clamp to on the hull and raise the entire ship. These things are expensive. There is no reason they should not be able to send a submersible down there and attach a cable to the thing, then tether it to a balloon.
Scotty: "You know if she ran wide open, I don't think the pipes could take it, Cap'n" Kirk "Yep. Warp speed Scotty. Steady as she goes (down)"
@Peg Leg but you can not change the laws of physics captain!
a space ship cannot sink
@Peg Leg
I kenna hold 'er Cuptin,
She's breakin' oop,
She's gunna bloo
Spock; Sensors indicate a temperature increase in both port and starboard engines
Captain; Flood the engine room, that'll cool 'em down.
Spock; Your decision, not mine.
Sassenach! :-)
Oh what a tangled web we weave, When at first we try to deceive. This was very well done. Another episode of Superyacht Mysteries!
That's insane. That seems like some sort of fraud and cover up.
Jameson Cross With BEAmer totally complicit in the cover-up.
Meh, ship happens.
Yup my first reaction.. insurance Fraud, hope it falls flat with the investigation. #pawned #facepalm
Insurance fraud
webnothing lmao
I work on super yachts and there is absolutely something going on here. Way too many "inoperable" systems all at once for a cream of the crop super yacht of all types of boats and a new build nonetheless. Then conveniently out of 3 independent means of bridge-to-engine control room communication methods, they all don't work?! As well as the annoying alarm you get if all watertight doors aren't closed and secure under way? I do however question how you would convince a professional yacht crew to risk their own lives to help the owner commit fraud. The captain was probably in on it, silencing alarms in the 3 second inhibit period before the engineer on watch would notice them to get the boat to a state where it could not be saved and then just having crew carry on with their muster duties. Confidentiality clause probably drafted for the moments he told them to leave the log books and other documents that would normally have been someones duty on the muster list. Why the bilge pumps and bow thrusters were not used after all the engineers would have surely noticed a flooded compartment and lack of steering is a mystery on its own too.
They should have had it towed to my Port City I would gladly take ownership of it. It would never leave the Harbor because I can’t afford to fuel it but I would ❤️ to make it my Home.
Realistically, I don't expect to ever be in a position to own a super yacht or be responsible for hiring crew for one. However, I will definitely chose you (if you're willing) if that time ever comes. Thank you for yet another great video! I love the production quality and your objective review of events. Cheers to you and yours, Captain!
and! film all you want : )
This is so nuts, its amazing that a gov agency cant work out these simple details, but and no offense here, a youtuber with 64k subs can put this all together.
He's no mere UA-camr.
He has been in this industry for some time and is familiar with the laws and proper protocols.
People with real experience and skill are so valuable and they are tough to replace.
depends which side he is fielding from?...
adam travis - But hold on, be careful, I presume this video has shaped your thoughts around this sinking yacht. It’s the first and major piece of information I have ever heard about it. Be careful and thinking that accident investigators are a bunch of boneheads. Have you actually read the report from the governmental investigators? I’m actually someone who often goes to the direct source and read that information and does way too much research for stuff that doesn’t even matter. I’m no expert but I try to be thorough a decent amount of the time. But it depends on what mood I am in and if I have nothing to do or whatever. At this point I do not see myself doing any more than watching/listening while I work or do different activities. But I keep an open mind.
Too often people are influence by the first evidence they receive and that sets their opinion even if they believe they can keep an open mind. Also people are often affected by confirmation bias. And example could be if they tend to think the government messes stuff up then they are extremely likely to believe that if there’s any evidence to believe so. Or another type of bias is presentation bias, which means people who are susceptible to that will believe the evidence that is presented in a way that “reaches them best“ rather than taking the evidence and weighing it based on the facts/information rather than production value. And the problem with biases are even if someone is told about them it doesn’t mean they can completely correct their mind to stop that bias. Even someone who is very good at correcting their bias won’t necessarily correct it completely, or they could over correct too.
The mind is a very strange thing. That’s something that actually is interesting to learn about: how the mind works AND how memory works.
@@iMatti00 wow surprising well thought out reply on the internet you sir are a rare bread, thank you for your insight
What a cliff hanging conundrum featuring the sinking of Yogi. Great video and thanks for posting this video.
The whole thing sounds sketchy. No surprise the French Govt “fixed” the final report.
Yipes! You’ve shared quite a story. I can’t imagine the utter desperation and weight on the shoulders of the deceased man. Little things aren’t to be dismissed. Huge life lessons here.
"Would the crew do it?" Just how much did the yacht's owner pay them? I'm sure she was insured for enough to pay the crew handsomely.
Three of the crew died in suspicious circumstances one year later.
Anon Nymous He, he being a fraud who stole the money from a rich old lady
She was under insured by a million plus.
Owner realized his toy was an overpriced lemon so he chose to take the insurance value. Possibly only two or three crew needed to be aware of the plan. That is one possible theory.
International authorities love to play hot potato with tragedies. There's no money in a hard pursuit of justice.
Titanic had a lookalike sister ship. There is a coverup story with the sinking of the Titanic as well, for similar reasons you mentioned. But authorities and official stories are burried (as usual with high profile cases).
@@ses4068
The titanic sister ship was different size and less funnels on top.
James Cameron when he went down and filmed the ship also confirmed that it was indeed the titanic that sank.
Thinking the same thing.
I was thinking the same thing
This is not a possible theory, it's a conspiracy theory and you can debunk it simply by doing a bit of logical thinking. As the video alludes to, no crew is going to sink their ship intentionally in 500m of water because the likelihood of killing themselves in the process is so high.
This was an accident caused by a lot of things going wrong over a period of time combined with completely incompetent management from the captain. It's how every serious accident happens. Regardless of whether you are run over, get in a plane crash, fall under a train or go bankrupt it's never one thing that goes wrong it's always a lot of things that when combined together in the "right" order cause an unrecoverable situation.
Seems even more dodgy after watching the 2md part.
If this was an insurance scam then only the owner, who was in financial difficulties, stood to gain. The shipyard stood to lose its reputation; the Certifying Authority also stood to lose its reputation, and the crew stood to lose the licences or worst their lives. If the sinking was instigated by the owner, how did he pull it off?
The most likely explanation is that it was brought about by a series of design flaws compounded by a tired crew.
It’s easy to blame the crew, but that had at best a few hours to identify the faults and rectify the situation, assuming that it was recoverable. The investigation had months in which to identify the issues.
Responsibility lies with the shipyard and the Certifying Authority.
Very interesting presentation. Beautiful looking yacht. That was a lot of retrofitting, and updating so soon after the launch. 5 months of a "punch list" tells me it should never have been launched and handed off to the owners. Sounds like this yacht was a "LEMON" right out of the gate. Convenient that it sank in 1500' ft of water. No records, ships logs, captains logs, EPIRB didn't work. Something sounds fishy about YOGI.
whadayawan'? they could not find deeper waters nor worse weather...
Excellent reasearch and reporting. Bravo!
The thumbs down are from the crew members.
Or the insurance underwriter...
Or or or maybe people who have opinions I mean idk
As someone who has grown up on luxury motor yachts, it is heartbreaking to see such a beautiful boat sink. Deliberate or accidental, this is a shocking and sad story, and it is a shame that reputations came before official reports. It is also sickening to hear of the CEO of the building company committing suicide. Very good video, covered everything I needed to know.
Beautiful?
No way. That thing was ugly.
Good riddance.
Everything about that is sinister. After Part 1 I didn't really believe that an owner Hellbent on sinking their own ship could manage to recruit an entire crew to carry it out, after Part 2 my belief has changed. I am beyond astounded, but that is certainly how it appears. I realize that the governing bodies had much more data, time and experience but does it not seem just a little bit fortunate that they seem to have sided with the owner...at least for the most part. It's all so shady that I'm nearly ready to go all in and declare that the suicide was made to appear as one.
Incredibly interesting story, if you have more please do share them.
Nah, still say insurance job. The nature of the flooding meant they had hours to be rescued, which they were.
Use your brain sir. For what you are saying to be correct every member of the crew must have decided that they were prepared to risk their lives by scuttling a ship in the middle of a deep sea. If they wanted to do an insurance job they could have chosen a lot of safer places to do it that are nearer land.
Even if they had decided to sink it for insurance you then have 15-20 crew members who would all need to be in on the ruse and have the same story and be loyal to each other until the end, despite only having met a few months prior.
Then of course you have no idea when the bulkhead door would fail, or the engines overhear so you might get to your destination before anything went wrong.
In summary, there a lot of easier ways to sink a ship than this that don't come with a lot of unknowns and risks. Conspiracy theories are easy to debunk when you use a bit of logical thinking.
@@ruk2023-- You need to improve your observation skills. There were only 8 people on board and only 4 of them were involved in the actual details of the casualty.
A new boat with 8 watertight doors, bilge pumps flood alarms etc, something does not make sense here. There was an immense screw up to sink this boat, accidental or with intent hard to figure!
@@rk24133927 And a watertight door doesn't "spring open" that's kind of impossible unless you are like 300 ft underwater with air on one side and water on the other.
@@rk24133927 This boat was too top heavy and required 27 tons of ballast weight?
Now knowing he was going at 16.4 kn it could be pinned straight on the captain
SHOULD!!
He knew and they said it the first time
how do you know what a deceased persons thought were?
Great investigative work, well done.
As for the reasons why she's with Davy Jones, no one will ever know, but, the captain running the engines with the taps fully open in those heavy seas, and watertight doors bursting open? The least I expected to see was a few gross negligence charges handed out.
Once again, very good video's.
Liked the 2 videos. It reminded me of the time we took our jet boat out and forgot to open the coolant valve. Overheated the Chevy 350 to the point it quit. Then as the seawater cooled it sucked the valves at the exhaust ports inward and we were going down alright. Luckily we just made it back to the ramp with the help of a passing boat and hustled to get it back on the trailer. I wouldn’t want the exhaust below the waterline after that. Maiden and final voyage too.
smells fishy to me........ as they always say "follow the money"
Swweeett --- more super yacht sinking mysteries!
Yogi: *SINKS*
Captain of Costa Concordia: "Hold my beer!"
Colly Doo *hold my ship
At least Capt Schettino fired up the bow thrusters long enough to get his ship to the rocks or else she was going down in 500 feet of water
Very well laid out reports ...absolutely worth all the time you spent on them.
These 2 parts were as well presented as any high-end professional news company would/could do.
This whole situation comes across as very corrupt in several areas ...
By the time I got to the end of this story , I started to wonder about " Your " safety ...
I don't know how well all this was documented/reported several years back, but having brought a story ( so well presented from the beginning to the end ).. back into the public eye , that it sure sounds like a lot of people would just as soon leave laying down deep on the ocean floor , it makes me wonder if this is the last we've heard of Yogi .
I'm sure "You're " fine and all is probably going to stay as it is, but that's how good your presentation was.
Very much enjoy your channel
Bob from Calgary
Seems as though the French authorities skimmed over some important questions.
This occurred to me as well. They couldn't really blame inspections and certifications in most main design categories, since they were the ones who inspected it and certified it. Also it occurs to me that even if the Shipyard had given the OK to a new refitting or work, isn't the crew supposed to do their own checks. It seems that nothing worked on this ship, and nobody knew how to deploy contingency plans when main systems failed. You would think that the crew had to have some major part of the responsibility for this even if it was faulty equipment or refitting, since it seems they either did everything wrong, or not at all. The only thing they were good at was calling the Grecian Coast guard with their wallets and passports in their trousers. Then again, what do I know. I am not a sailor. My Dad had a boat, and we had fun as kids, I've always wanted one but haven't had the time or money. So I'm no expert. But as a fan from afar, this just doesn't seem plausible. Why weren't the pumps used. Why couldn't they manage to manually get at least a neutral rudder so they could steer with bow thrusters at low speed. Again. Im no expert. But it seemed like this could have been handled better. I think there was either complicity, or fatigue and panic. But I don't want to convict anyone falsely. Maybe France should stick to pastries as well. Their report didnt seem to helpful Databyter
That wasn't by accident, so to speak.
Keep up with your reporting...Its facinating
There are way too many inconsistencies, rules broken with incompetent decision making,
only to bring one to conclude, the ship was scuttled.
This was a excellent narrated piece.
Well researched - without opinion - just the facts and observations of contradictory points of data - really well done video. Thank you - very complete and professional review.
A brand new yacht, No data recorder, No communicating devices employed on board, a series of unfortunate events, and a cascade of failures, seen from the specs you offered when she went in for all of that pre-sail work, wreaks of major incompetence. When the Oceanos sank off SA, it was a water incursion below deck. All the "water tight door work," and the punching of the studs in beach club 1 and 2, seem to be a starting point for sinking. I think the vessel was sunk intentionally. Nobody cared to collect logs, but they got their passports and certificates. Why did nobody think that was a bit strange, yet that's what they did. When people start killing themselves after a disaster, you know something is fishy !!
Jeremy Andrews Watertight doors don’t ‘burst’ open under water pressure. They can be left undogged or simply left open and they can’t help if that’s the case.
@@clayz1 Hi. I was trying to flesh out the work they had done on the beach club 1 and 2, and the possibility that the door failed because of the work done on them, i was not trying to intimate that they burst open, but failed in some manner as you said. I guess I worded it not so well. thanks.
Really interesting story and well told! Thanks.
this is the best yacht video on you tube
Watched this with my 10 year old grandson. At the end he said “nana some one was naughty” !
Quite cool how a 10 year old can watch this sort of video without thinking it's "boring". There is hope for the next generation yet
@@visionist7 Because it never happened.
@@visionist7 how do you know he didn't find it boring. Might not have even understood a thing, the Nana, music, atmosphere could influence.
That 10 year old child has more common sense than the whole of French inspectors and great critical thinking skills. You have a winner and you should be extremely proud of him. I don't even know him but I'm proud of him. Kudos to all of you.
This never happened.
As always, a well laid out, informative video. Thank you.
I shan't speculate as to why this vessel had such a tragic end. Far too many variables involved. And far to little knowledge on my part.
Still no expert but, less floaty and more sinky. Still seems like a solid conclusion
Seriously liking the flexing of the documentary skills on these!!!
Really like these two videos. Have you ever thought about doing a ship version of aircraft investigations? Not just for super yachts but all type of ships? I bet a lot of people would watch that
As I was doing this series I thought about doing more. They are very labour intensive however so if I did them more often I’d not have time for anything else. Each video took a week of studying the info and writing and editing.
@@YachtReport Please do make more of these, perhaps recruit an assistant to help out with the leg work like research, etc to save you time. You can see from the comments how much people like and appreciate the mystery stories.
Agreed. As a sailor I like to learn from the situations where things didn't go so well. All too often I see articles about boat mishaps, with few details and no follow up on cause. Hard to learn much from that.
I am absolutely astounded. Did the insurance company pay out? We're the crew paid off. This stinks, I would not be happy at all.
I wonder if the crew was tracked to see if they suddenly all bought nice houses and sports cars.
I don't think that an insurance would pay this. i don't even think that the yacht was payed all at once. probably the builders company will pay for it or their insurance.
skiingfast1 you sound dumb dude.., he was already a millionaire it’s a 40 million dollar boat... :/
@@shmokey-rust5510 You sound dumb. Who would not want tens of millions in cash instead of a depreciating asset they don't want that costs them $40M and more each year.
That story by the crew sounds like absolute crap. Especially the engineer's story. Both comms "fail" so he goes up to the bridge to shutdown the engine when he's less than 20 feet from the engine shutoff. That makes absolutely no sense.
No tears shed here.
I'm certain we can trust the review, because the French are so noble and honorable!
Hatches were left open. There’s no way that door would be blown off.
Right
As usual, it appears that was a sequence of events leading up to a catastrophic event. The modifications in the ship yard such as not testing the Beach Club hatch after the seals were re-done stands out as a good example. But that the wired communications between Chief Engineer and Skipper were not working and then they did not use the VHF radios? What on earth?! Thanks eSysman for a detailed review of this. What a sad story, with the CEO taking his life.
He was killed
@Hello Peter Blackmore, How are you doing?
The two videos were amazing and I waited crazy for the second time and it did not disappoint I was sitting on the edge of my chair watching it I had to watch it three times over just to pick up all of the pieces of information
And I would love to see more things like this I’ve told a few of my friends about part one and they have watched it and they also I’ve been waiting for the part two to come out
It was brilliant absolutely brilliant thank you
Great video, raises lots of good questions regarding how the industry not only investigates but also trains crew members for unexpected failures. Along with the whole question of design that does not prove to be fail-safe. To me this raises concern about every sector not just one.
Why the full speed in rough seas? Was the captain expected to arrive at the destination at a certain time by the owner? Or he (captain) just liked pushing things to the limit? In any case, note to self: no beach club when I commission my super yacht!
The weight of the extra fuel bunkered would have been helpful in sinking the vessel.
The captain was doubtless speeding to get to their prederermined scuttling location to give them sufficient time to sabotage the vessel beyond its point of recovery, and to ensure that their rescue would be carried out in daylight...
the guy on the right at 11:46 is in a deep train of thought. lol
Part 2 was just as good as the first part.
Hey Yogi...! Let's get us a new picnic basket... hey..hey..he..he
The charter fee, almost $400K per week, would buy you your own fairly nice yacht.
This was a very interesting Mini~Series you put together...Yogi was definitely riddled with issues. But I would have to agree with the official report...A multitude of issues and errors collided simultaneously resulting in the loss of a large vessel. Thankfully no lives were lost...Well minus the CEO who committed suicide.
France is a beautiful country. The language is also beautiful and romantic. And the food speaks for itself.
That pretty much covers it.
Forgot the wine its pretty good too, drank a red last night it was good!!
I will say, I work on tugboats and unless the engine is on fire or a fuel line split you never shut down an engine without notifying the captain 1st. You try to never shut down an engine in bad weather. To touch on the subject of using bow/stern thrusters, they don't always work well in bad weather. Hell there's time they don't work well in a breezy day. At work we have to assist super yachts docking and undocking because they don't have enough to counter act wind and max current.
Those things sound way too fickle and more trouble than they are worth.
Full power in weather, working all day on night of departure. Sounds like management was under time pressure. Good Captains and Chief Engineers don’t allow this kind of pressure to be exerted on them. We say whoa, and shut ‘er down. Same thing happened with the El Faro. A multitude of vessel issues, but not fatal ones, except for crew incompetence and lack of balls to stand up to owners and managers. The new owners and shipmates that these guys work with should consider themselves warned.
I don't understand how so many things were broken on a new boat after it had already been in for warranty repair. There had to be either sabotage or just crazy incompetent people involved.
There is absolutely no evidence to confirm that there were any faults whatsoever with the vessel, only the word of the crew, whose actions, inactions and statements raise many ignored questions.
@@felixcat9318
You're absolutely right
the whole "sinking" story stinks to high heaven.
It is just a water bore motor home, all motor homes have lots of problems. This vessel was all flash and no guts.
Wow.
Not only did you keep my attention thru all of part 1.
But i actually watched part 2 too! 👍👍
Another excellent video. Been watching you for a long time and your getting better and better with every video. Great work.
Well told.. thanks..
Interesting conclusion. Well... sort of. The multiple errors/situations being lined up and occurring in perfect order, I believe is called the ‘Swiss Cheese’ effect. Thanks for the video
Swiss cheese...also a line a dominoes. The Titanic has a long line of dominoes, any one of which if removed, would have kept them all from tipping over, and kept the ship from sinking
Well said. Cheers.
Some questions still to be answered:
• Why did the captain put his ship in an 8-force storm? Why the rush?
• Why were bilge alarms not triggered? What kind of automatic control system did the yacht have?
• How did the bilge pumps fail? Yogi seemed to have power even just before fully submerged. What stopped the pumps? Bilge pump, back-up bilge pump, fire pump?
• What happened to the watertight walls? How did the large yacht fill with so much water?
• Rudder and machine cooling systems are completely independent systems. Why and how did the rudder lock? Every yacht has an emergency steering system. Why was this not used by the crew? When was the last time the emergency rudder drill was done? This is important as it prevents the boat from grounding. Especially considering that the ship sank in about 7 hours!
• Why was the ship not attempted to be grounded? There is no mention of this possibility and option in the report?
• Why was it not mentioned in the report that the AIS device was turned off? Why was this mandatory device not active?
• How can the onboard communication system not work on a yacht that leaves for warranty service? All of these yachts have mini VHF or UHFs. Everyone on duty has to have their radio on.
• Where is the log book of Yogi? Why didn't crew take any record with them? Receiving journals is part of the abandon ship drill. No sane captain would ever leave the ship without a logbook! According to other sources, they took their crew passports and money with them. Where is the port departure checklist?
• Were the crew's water tightness checks recorded?
• According to the statements of Captain, communication was established with the Coast Guard, insurance company and the navy. So why was the shipyard not contacted? Why wasn't any technical support received?
• According to the report, the ship made 100nm in 7.2 hours, maintaining a speed of 14 knots in the period from the east of Strati Island to the first engine failure. Therefore, it would not be correct to assume that the boat has been taking water for a long time. If it were, there would be a decrease in speed. Yogi suddenly started taking water. But why and how?
Interesting second part. Love the “Hunt for Red October” type-sounds.
Sounds like the whole crew was in on it. Wonder if authorities checked the bank accounts of the crew for pay offs.
After all this incompetence, doubtful. Payoffs are normally a huge PITA to try and keep secret but I bet they were paid off quite openly.
"Compensation"
Even a stupid person would not put their payouts in a bank.....or any other public holding place......1st place the investigation would check, and down the road too....
cash
Haaah! I hate to call exhaustion incompetence, but sure looking more and more like the crews fault than fraud to me.👍👍 good to see another vid!! Cheers!!
a very professionally produced video well done
Excellent work! Thank you very much for the upload.
WOW! Just WOW!!!
Schettino style Captaining............................
Costa Concordia????
Thanks for sharing this 2 part story. I really enjoyed it. It would be cool if you could cover some other incidents at sea like this periodically. I just can't imagine that the crew would be in on some sort of "insurance scam" or something where they willingly allow the vessel to get into trouble like this and sink. The risk would be to great to be complicit in something like that. That was a heck of a sea rescue and they are all fortunate to have survived being pulled off that ship in those horrible conditions. My vote is fault lies with the design and construction that was compounded by some very poor decision making by crew.
I am glad I subscribe to your channel. I know nothing about yachts, your program is so interesting.
Thank you. Very interesting content.
Premeditated sinking seems a bit too risky, over speeding and overheating to get to Cannes seems more likely. "Getthereitis" or what it is called. Many small airplane accidents happen that way.
A more appropriate term would be celebrityitus. The pressure, overt or not, to do what the famous person or boss wants forgetting that you are the captain in charge.
I don't know if it is common practice for a shipyard anywhere to hand a half-done vessel over to its owner, but it looks like there was a lot of pressure by the owner to get it done. The same goes for the obviously tired crew, I can't imagine it was their decision to go under this circumstances. Finally, a fixed "investigation" sums it up.
Well done to Greek Search and Rescue 👏🏼👏🏼
As you say it's never one factor, I do think it was insurance fraud, I definitely don't think every one of the crew were involved, but I think that the overheating engine wasn't something they had planned to do, and were going at over 16 knots to get to a suitable location, to sink the ship. However we will never know as long as you have money/backed up by Money justice is rarely served.
I say 3 of them involved - as they all suspiciously died shortly after this incident
I’m no expert in sailing but IMO the Turkish shipbuilder got screwed on the incident.
I'm so glad nothing like this could ever happen to me!
Make a good movie thanks for this fascinating documentary.
11 French Ships Inspectors down voted this video
Something dont smell right, but I cant put my nose to it. Sounds like one of those things where people keep making compounding mistakes.
It sounds like the man who bought it through shady means decided to cover his expenses and court costs through even shadier means.
Very interesting. Well presented. Thank you .
These were two very cool videos! Thanks for keeping the content going.
All that money for a Super Yacht with that much issues? The 2nd time it went into dry dock, warranty or not, I would have been at the builder demanding a refund.
Yachts tend to be a hole in the ocean you pour money into. You're incredibly unlikely to get a refund for one either, especially if the shipyard is performing the warranty repairs as requested - you can demand a refund all you want but you're not getting one without a very long, expensive legal battle.
Nobody cared more about the ship than those who built it, yet could never own it.
Forget going back to sea , you should go in to suspense thriller novels , your keeping the audience on there edge of there seats 😂 . Great videos as always 👍.
Well done video series. Have you done more of these? This may be a new series I will have to watch during my down time this summer. Keep up the good work.
This is my first one. I will do more in the future.