Captain of 007 Speaks Out About Disaster | Nord Arrives in HK | SY News Ep137
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Captain of 007 Speaks Out About Disaster | Nord Arrives in HK | SY News Ep137
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Very interesting video, so thought I'd share my thoughts based on the info provided:
For a vessel to be ECDIS compliant it must be equipped with the following: 2 independent Wheel Marked (SOLAS approved) Navigation computers and screens with Approved Nav software such as TRANSAS. 2x Wheel Marked GPS receivers, Independent back up power supply system, GYRO compass input (heading is GYRO not GPS) and finally a approved speed log. ECDIS operators must complete a 5 day generic course at a certified maritime centre and must have type specific training depending on which software is used onboard the vessel. If a vessel does not meet all these requirements then they can not use this system as a primary source of navigation and therefor must use approved and updated paper charts. GPS positioning is to be used as a reference (even with ECDIS), operators must continue to do visual position fixes, such as running fix, 3 point fix, distance by vertical angle, reference the waters depth (echo sounder) to your position on the chart etc.
Water tight doors: As part of the pre departure checks water tight doors must be closed, If any remain open it should be clear on the bridge monitoring system. water tight doors can be opened underway if work is being done in the area but closed as soon as the area is vacated. If a water tight door is opened, an audible and visual alarm should be heard/seen on the bridge and can be silenced on the monitoring system. The collision bulkhead is what is says in the name, however that's not to say that its impossible to penetrate, its possible that the impact went beyond the the bulbous bow on the hull but I don't have enough data.
A commercial yacht over 24m or 200GT is required to have a certified engineer onboard, the qualifications will depend on the main engines KW and the vessels operating areas. This can change subject to the vessels flagstate and possible dispensations. They will also have a Safe Manning Document issued by the vessels flag state which states the number of crew the vessel must carry when in operation and the minimum training each of the crew members must have depending on their position onboard.
If you get the chance to interview the Captain again, I'd be happy to be on the call with you, still a lot of confusion and unanswered questions. If the flagstate decide to do an accident report then I we will get the whole story.
A through summary Tristan 👍
"paper charts" you are a man of God and of The Earth . : )
miles of everglades boating
miles of apalachian hiking..
I didn’t see who wrote this before I read it but half way through i knew it was Tristan 😂 excellent information from @superyachtcaptain
Does that mean that a non-commercial private pleasure yacht over 24m has virtually no manning requirements? (As long as the yacht is registered in a lenient flag state)
I could theoretically buy a 40m yacht for myself and drive around (with a certain license I would guess?) without any crew?
he had no business captaining that vessel
Wow. You did not go easy on the questions for the captain. Big respect for asking such bold yet pertinent questions. Incredible work piecing all this together for us so far.
I agree. I'm surprised that the Captain continued the interview.
@@aeroscout8409 Indeed!
Being a retired airline captain, I would have to say that this guy isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. He's just digging a deeper and deeper hole for himself. His contacting you for any reason is evidence of that. Another great video though!
I thought this guy was also digging a hole, just own the fact if you did screw up.
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@@leannevandekew1996 the captain for my 007 is very incompetent and dangerous by taking numerous short cuts. and talking to eSysman made it worse. crew short handed, one on break, another on a phone. doesn't plot a course which should Always be done, if GPS is broken plot by hand.
Wow - you ask better questions than 90% of reporters! You are like a prosecutor in court! (Maybe the insurance adjusters should hire you). The captain's answers were fishier than the water that boat sank in.
😂😂😂😂 Fishy answers, indeed!
It sure seems like there are plenty of holes in the captain's story. Thanks for researching this and sharing what you learned.
If the holes in his story are anything like the ones in M/Y 007 he'll possibly sink as well.
I too, am retired. Not senile, and still provide lessons to beginnners and can endorse what Donald says - NO WAY a pilot of mine flies without an operable GPS system, and in most cases they have two or three backups. NOT EVEN between two airfields in line-of-sight. This captain is a cretin and needs to learn about the rules of the sea. FORCED to learn, not `suggested`. Pathetic excuses for that level of incompetence do not fill me with confidence, and I've experienced first hand `captains` trying to steer from the Isle of Wight to Hampshire using a ROAD atlas, and I reported the Hooray Henry and his floating gin palace. He was sent back to school and had his captaincy suspended as I recall...
@@simonevans8979 Thats really harsh. Able Seamen crossed the Oceans 5000 years ago without GPS, using Mind, Landmarks, Stars at Night, Papercharts, Compass. So at least in Germany to get your "open Sea" -License you have to pass the Navigation Lessons without using GPS.
@@TheMave34 Bollocks mate. IF a modern mariner can't or won't use GPS they have no compliance with modern legislation, as applies here. I have no interest in what happened a hundred or more years ago, just like I don't care whar pilots USED to do, only what helps and is required NOW.
As a minimum the captain will show a Certificate of Equivalent Competence (CEC) and SURELY that will include correct use and application of CURRENT nav systems?
@@simonevans8979 We don't talk about Carriers. Up to 75 ft/200 GT you have to navigate "safe and well" . No Matter what Systems or own Mind you use. Thats the international legislation. So if the Captain leaves the Anchor with a damaged GPS (he was aware of) he CANT rely on it. A simple Paper-Chart plus 2 Triangels would help out.
Love your work. This was a great episode, enjoyed the details of your convo with 007's captain. Agreed, more questions than answers.
My God !
So, he was sailing without charts, with no GPS and on Google maps.
OK, like a dinghi on a pond, good.
In my old times we used to sail with no GPS either, but near a shore you
know your position with azimuths and distances trough the radar, you have also the depth sounder, you are aware, vigilant, in a dark and quiet bridge, etc, etc.
What a guy ! What a sailor !
Thank you for all the info.
You are becoming quite the investigative reporter, great job!!
I'm always amazed when anyone shares any information about themselves to anyone seeking an interview, so I'd say you got a lot of info.
the boating world seems so shady, so secretive. nothing is straight forward or direct. its always concealed, covered, stealth lol. I want you to know i really appreciate your time and effort making these videos. im a noob to this topic area but im always amazed by what i learn. all my life i have never paid attention to the seas or boating world. i take a little look at whats going on and it looks absolutely wild.
So dark and secretive to the point of being shady. I love that this channel exposes this.
There is no racket like the megayacht racket.
@@frankfarago2825 The art world is a racket, and the fashion world is a racket.
yet for some sick reason it has become fashionable to attack Cris Columbus. but Actual Research is not allowed by the programming.
he only had Two Diaries and we have them Both
@@stevesmith9459 the “real racket” is the world of professional Tennis!! …..I thank you very much……I’ll be here all week……please tip your waitress & bar tender.😂
It is very commendable you kept to your word about not using any of the recording of the interview of the captain on the video.
Seems strange to ground a yacht that large when it is upright, floating in very shallow water. It would appear he accidentally grounded the yacht, and tried to save face by saying it was intentional to save the seas of contamination. There's more to this story, a lot more! 👍😎✌
You've become a reporter, only difference, this is interesting. Keep up the great work, would like to know, you now have a team.
Agreed...infinitely interesting.
Great episode, thank you.
Surely 007 would have more than one source of electronic navigation??
I sail a 36ft yacht and we have the main chart plotter, a handheld vhf with position and generally have two iPhones & two iPads with us.
By the way, was the other ship unfrozen, or merely defrosted 🙈
You are correct that it most likely had several Nav Devices. What the Yacht obviously didn't have was someone competent to use them to navigate.
The captain said he knew he wasn’t on the main course by using Google Maps GPS.
Yachts will usually have 2 GPS antennas and their would be some other radio kit that has its own inbuilt GPS as opposed to be interfaced with an existing system. However, smaller vessels, sub 50m, would only have 1 chart plotter. Commercial passenger vessels 50m+ would have 2 ECDIS vector chart system with 2 computers, 2 displays, 2 emergency power supplies and 2 UPSs.
As for him not always using the system AND not having a voyage plotted on a chart - gross incompetence and utter unprofessionalism. Not a proper mariner.
@@csjrogerson2377 our yacht is 44ft long. We have two chart plotters. One at the nav station, one in the cockpit. In addition, we have a couple of Ipads with Navionics software and a laptop with C maps. So we have 5 different systems. I th38nk you are correct that the simple truth is the Captain was raging incompetent. The crew on watch with the Captain who went to make coffee is culpable. I would not allow myself to be on a yacht as crew with such blatant disregard for good seamanship. I hope the insurance comppay dony pay out. Idiocy like this needs removing from the oceans
I was a superyacht Capt for 20 years on vessels 60m+ and am ECDIS qualified. I would never navigate in coastal waters using only a single means of position fixing. GPS maybe the primary method (DGPS which is available around Athens is accurate to within 2m), but I'd also be using radar ranges or parallel indexes and a depth sounder for confimation. I'm also surprised they would only have a single GPS unit available, with moderrn GPS it's pretty easy to tell when your signal is weak or you have a dilution of position error. Also, even if the GPS had a problem I'd like to know the state of the charts and updates- out of date charts are definitely a real concern when using ECDIS
As for ECDIS/ENC. A lot of confusion exists on this subject. ECDIS uses vector charts, has 2 separate & independent GPS inputs, 2 separate computers, 2 separate emergency power supplies and UPSs. You need a set of get you home charts. The system has to be risk assessed, IMO and Class approved before it can be used. ECDIS is compulsory on commercial passenger vessels over 500gt. Electronic Navigation Charts (ENCs), often incorrectly called ECDIS are not IMO approved and are simple digital copies of charts on a display. There are no mandated back ups and the ENC's are uncorrected. A full chart and nav publication outfit must be carried, corrected and used for all navigational voyages. Most superyachts under 50m and 500gt use ENCs.
As for the 007 Captain only using his ENC occasionally and not using a chart on that voyage, what can be said other than unprofessional, incompetent, dangerous and foolish. Look what happened!
The owner/captain is incorrect in his statement that an engineer is not required for that size of ship.
For a vessel of that size 32m then 49m, she is unlikely to have 5 watertight bulkheads, probably 3 then another added during the extension. A GA would be useful.
@eSysman SuperYachts • Your ready to wear a detective shield. Excellent interview that did raise more questions than we started with. Keep up the good work. 👍
Raises more questions than it answers, sounds like there was a bit of back-pedalling in the conversation too! Thanks for bringing us this video. 🙂
A GPS receiver can be off by a few meters or more. But if there's something wrong with the antenna or other component of the system, it simply fails to produce a position: latitude and longitude etc. It then reports something to the effect of no solution found. In other words it cannot fail in the manner of indicating half a kilometer away from actual, for example.
It is possible that a navigation system would screw up the input from a GPS receiver and generate a false or erroneous location. Unlikely with any reliable navigation package.
The My dog ate the GPS signal excuse does not hold.
I have known charts to be several NM's out but not in well chartered countries (Mexico is notorious for chart errors).
The wife is quoted having said that the boat was off by “ten degrees”, this absolutely makes no sense, 10 degrees could in this case be easily over 300 nautical miles.
Someone could have reset the nav gear and put in an incorrect heading offset. The '10 degrees' might refer to the indicated ship's heading rather than the actual heading. Perhaps no one checked the compass - which should have been recalibrated after any ship yard work. Boat looks top heavy from new!
“My dog ate…. “ LOL !!
@@jonathanflatman The owner added the top structure as well as extending the aft. I kinda don't want to say this, but it all seems like someone was manouvring the yacht under influence.
Maritime Detective eSysman :) Great reporting, as always.
It is only through your highly knowledgeable reporting that we become aware of the subterfuge that seems to define the world of mega-yachts. I used to be interested in these vessels as expensive toys. Now, because of your reporting, I've become interested in them as political and/or economic surrogates. Thanks.
Totally agree 100%
You don't understand, the US and many European countries are so cost prohibitive and limiting on what employees can do and how long. Don't be mistaken, a lot of people love spending long periods of time on yachts, especially please yachts.
I think you did a great job, being honest and pragmatic regarding the information you have found.
Thanks, good work esysman. Here you see that someone knowledgeable in the business can ask the good questions. I hope we get some information about what happened and why. Just to learn from it.
Very, very good video!!! The Russia details and captains interview are fabulous. Thanks sir!
In an era of cheap, readily-accessible hand-held GPS units (including smartphones), not knowing exactly where you're at when piloting a multimillion dollar yacht is unthinkable. I'm guessing this guy might have made his last sailing.
Smart phones work off of radio towers not satellites and there's not to many radio towers at sea. Essentially phones and smart watches things like that won't give you anything like an accurate position. They'll just show you're at see. I know this to be true I went on a cruise this year and my phone only up dated when we were near the port.
@@Scooot1972 false. you may not get map data, but you will have location data.
@@aredub1847 I never. It just put me randomly at see.
@@Scooot1972 it depends on the smartphone. iPhones and iPads (cellular versions) have GPS chips in them. You can turn off the cellular services in them and still have GPS location....I do it all the time in my airplane, and have done it on cruise ships far offshorre. If you don't have that ability, spend a bit more on your cellphone next time.
@@Scooot1972 you don't own a garmin gps watch clearly 🤦♂️
Very unusual story about 007. I’m surprised the captain told you anything as this is a legal matter and will probably go to an Admiralty court. Good reporting on your part.
thanks for all the hard work you do. It is really interesting
Headline should've read "Captain Speaks Gibberish While on Russian Vodka Binge" and, quite frankly, that's what I thought we'd get. Thanks for the update.
Another good video. Really enjoy this channel.
Thanks for another great video, I really enjoy them. This Captain's theory on the GPS antenna causing them to be off course is rubbish. GPS is a time based system and as long as the receiver can receive an adequate signal it will be accurate, or it will not give you a position at all. I'm an avionics engineer specialising in navigation systems.
Being WEALTHY enough to OWN a Super Yacht, doesn’t mean you’re SMART enough to CAPTAIN a Super Yacht
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Well said! It would appear that wealth can take away IQ points as well. You’d think even marginal intelligence would give you the brains to say “I’m smart enough to KNOW I shouldn’t captain a vessel this big, let’s hire a professional to do that”, but here… nope. I’ve always said about specialty arenas where I CAN do something, if I’m not “in the know” with electrical…. hire an electrician; not great with plumbing… hire a plumber; I can write software code, I’m NOT a programmer… hire a programmer; even mundane things like I can paint the inside of my house, I don’t particularly enjoy it and I’m not very good at it… hire a professional painter. I can’t even imagine deluding myself into thinking that my ability to “play” with a 42’ Sea Ray, could somehow qualify me to captain a 160 foot super yacht! Blows my mind how people think. Even if I had the qualifications AND experience, what’s the point of owning a yacht like that and never being able to enjoy it by being “THE” captain??
Definitely a head shaker here. 🤦♂️🤷♂️
it does sound like an owner was trying to play captain, and had too much boat for his ability.
yes you can steal real good but that is It . nowadays thieves think they can run countries, armies, shoeshine stands they CAN'T
@@ricktaylor4real knowing your limitations seems to be Forbidden in this ...
i owned and "captained" an Everglades 17' could navigate in storms ! but fix the trailer ? no way
Applies all the way down to a canoe, or paddle boat, from what I've seen. Go look at some of the Haulover video of private boats going in and out. You absolutely will not BELIEVE what you see there. It can be really dangerous with very high breaking waves, and these guys try to go out with pleasure boats like open ski boats with very little freeboard, and with absolutely NO idea how to accomplish the task. Some of them are SEVERELY overloaded, they look like Haitian escape vessels, and often with the majority of them in the open bow. It is incredible. Somebody who KNOWS what they are doing would have their hands full. I've seen them spear waves so violently that the windshield is just torn from the boat. Bet that's fun to take right in the ole kisser.
One teenager got tossed overboard (that happens all the time, too) and missed the pickup by the jetski, repeatedly going underwater because she was holding her cell phone up out of the water in one hand! This was after it had been very obviously very thoroughly dunked, so it wasn't going to do any good ANYWAY.
They apparently couldn't think their way out of a wet paper bag. Ya gotta wonder. Personally I think people are TOO coddled and protected any more, like "Don't iron while wearing" (didn't make that up) to the point that natural selection is negated, and many people are clueless.
Usually it's funny, occasionally it is downright dangerous, though. One guys boat was thoroughly swamped so he puts it in forward and throttles up, whereupon the bow obviously dives taking on a lot more water. So what does he do after that? The SAME THING, three more times.
Fantastic work. Excellent research. Really professional investigation. Extremely impressed with your constantly improving quality. Not sure why you haven't got 1m subscribers yet - including everyone who works with and reports on yachts!
Excellent reporting!
Congratulations on your exclusive interview! Very impressive!
Wow! The captain of M/Y 007 certainly seems to be a shady character. He's obviously making an effort to protect somebody but if he has been as evasive with the authorities he might be the one taking the fall for whatever he's hiding. Perhaps there's an enormous bonus for him if his efforts to conceal are successful. Just imagine how much money has been spent on legal fees regarding these superyachts alone. Terrific job as usual by the eSysman team, thank you!
Thank you for sharing your video here..
great job!
I’ve been a private pilot for 55yrs. When GPS technology was introduced into our navigation procedures, all pilots were taught and reminded frequently that the PIC is responsible to have current maps on board and always be aware of our position as you could loose the GPS signal at any time. If you were lost and an accident occurred or harm to passengers or anyone on the ground, the PIC would be held responsible.
Well written and absolutely true. now I have to ask one question, how is it you manage to spell the word lose incorrectly . it happens an unbelievable amount of time everywhere I turn. rhetorical.
Great Job as always, thanks for your do diligence in getting us accurate news!
Another great video keep up the good work..
Very interesting main story. This illustrates why a carefully controlled hearing, e.g. in an administrative court, is necessary to wring out the detail, including concrete evidence as well as testimony. I think you've done a marvelous job under the circumstances.
So much more to this story. I’m amazed he spoke to you.
Really thorough investigation. Yes. Leaves you with more questions than answers
It sounds like the captain is incompetent and should have whatever certification he has revoked. If he is not the owner the owner should fire him. He is responsible for anything that happened to or on the vessel.
"I see you put the Lotus back together, Q"
"Oh grow up, 007",
"Ah, I see you refloated the 007, Q",
"Oh grow up....... aw forget it".
Wow .. very interesting information. Sounds like owner was cutting costs or couldn't afford the upkept. I'm surprised that no one noticed in the ship yard they were in - that they were docked/left
I’ve been watching your channel for almost five years and love how technical you are when you do walkthroughs of all of the MY’s!!! Keep up the excellent work!
Thank you
Great work my friend
I love this channel. Great Nautical Expert Gentleman too ! . Well done “ Captain eSysman “👏👏💯 Yacht 🛥⛵️⛴🛳🛥🚤🚢 King 🤴🏼 😊
Definitely sounds like he is trying to hide something from the public domain, more questions than answers. Great work & reporting as normal, stay safe.
I'm surprised these size boots do not have depth sonar capabilities and warnings that go with it. Great video.
Every chart plotter has depth indicators so you can avoid the rocks unless you are not watching. André in Sydney
As always very intresting Mr Sysman. Very suspicious that captin sounds though.
Why would the captain have agreed to talk with you? It sounds even sketchier after he talked with you!😮 good reporting work! 😎
It's far safer to be navigating primarily by radar & paper charts when close to shore, using GPS/electronic charts as backup information. Plenty of radar display information to use as positional references, and it keeps you on your toes regarding the navigation.
It sounds like he is trying to avoid giving too much information that could cause more trouble or liability or something down the road. He is trying to keep it basic information. Honestly though, few captains would step up to be interviewed here at all in the first place. I don't think he is trying to cover anything up, but just protect himself / the owner, because we all know that the insurance company is trying to find a reason to get out of paying out on this yacht.
Some interview! It made Prince Andrew seem honest and forthcoming... Regards.
"We don't always plot when we're near by".
Well, that's one way of running a ship aground.
I have done a fair amount sailing in Island Waters on Northwest Pacific Coast .... if you are 10 Degrees off on your compass heading at night you will either be lost or on the rocks somewhere at some point ... seems like a bad situation being handled by not the best crew but plausible to me ...
There were 3 crew onboard, two dogs, captain and three more persons. There was no horn. I was in Kolona bay that night watching live sinking and listing.
Thanks. Interesting report. Like you say, a lot more questions than answers. 👍👍
"We don't plot a chart" LOLOLOL Famous last fatal words.
Great Chanel my brother!! Keep up the good work !! Robert from Ohio !! USA 🇺🇸 !!
Great reporting
Great Job!
Well done mate. Quite a mystery!
Hard to be "off course" when you have never "plotted a course." Enjoy your channel. Nice work.
Mad stuff, I was at Merichas shortly after this happened, and popped in to Kolona bay to have a look, im very curious to know what caused it. I thought he had ran aground while trying to med anchor at night or something along the lines, we were also wondering if it was maybe an insurance job. I've sailed in and out of there a lot this season, and the approach to merichas is mainly deep water, there is a large rock right at the mouth of the port, above water however, although surely it was not on that side because assumably he would have gone to another bay closer. Pretty clear on Navionics where all the dangers are. Very curious to see how this one plays out. Kolona bay is beautiful too, shame you couldnt anchor on that side for the rest of the season 😅
You know, sometimes a captain should know when it is time to just STFU...one of the worst CYAs ever! Excellent work!
I was in Bodrum a few years ago and saw the 007 there. I wasn't lucky enough to go onboard and we went out for drinks, he told me it wouldn't be possible to go onboard because the owner was about. Apparently the boat was not purpose as it stands, it was an older vessel that they had re-fit and refurbed. If I remember right its got 2 900hp engines, which is not abundant power for the size of the vessel. He told me it was a good life but he's main problem was getting the owner to pay up... for anything. The 007 looks quite slick up top but I wouldn't be surprised if there was some botchery below deck. Whenever I asked anyone else about the boat they told Putin's friend owned it.
Mad to hear of the accident. Hope no one got injured
When you asked the captain about the bulkhead in front that it shouldnt have sunk he stated they already had water in cabins?
You know there's a ton of free satellite image services, right? You can look back in time at more-or-less anyplace on earth, usually at least weekly, and sometimes many times per day (especially when satellite orbits overlap). I use it for firefighting cause discovery, but it's equally useful for looking at what ships might have been where in the past...
Really interesting interview with the skipper of the 007. Surprising he agreed to talk to you especially as he described a sequence of events under his direct control which demonstrated his total incompetence. Hopefully the insurance company picks up on this video and abates any claim due to his negligent actions.
In reference to the 007 and the comment about the ferry routes. As a Merchant officer I can tell you that on most if not all ECDIS systems you can turn on ferry routes to be shown but it is not a default setting. Not that this is an advisable way to navigate. That close to land a radar should have been enough. Should have been following a planned route and verified the GPS accuracy as well.
I propose a new series for the Discovery channel. Move over Deadliest Catch, it's time for Deadliest Yachts.
Probably ripped off the port stabilizer about time of initial bow contact. Thus flooding through compartment 3 or 4. That bow damage never would have stopped the vessel ( nor caused such severe flooding) rather the vessel sheered off / deflected upon impact , probably carrying on at least the length of the vessel , Bingo there goes that big stabilizer fin. As to captains statement probably a combination of confusion and self- justification involved.
Reminds me of a teenager who wrecked daddy’s car.
that "Le Petite Ourse" is such a nice looking boat.
I am just a wee bit confused about the GPS antenna situation. I will admit that I have never worked on or with a ship GPS but with all the GPS systems that I have worked on or with it does not matter which direction the antenna is rotated to.
I recon he’s panicked after hitting something and decided to beach her when only the bulbous bow was damaged.. she’s rolled over in her ear and flooded so nobody apart from the crew can really say if she was taking on water or not.
The old man really does sound clueless! ⚓️
Very interesting episode. I'm by no means knowledgeable about boats or ships; however, I find it had to believe if the damage is limited to the bulb at the bow that that would be sufficient to cause a vessel of that size to sink. Maybe the collision caused a water tight bulk head to buckle?? Or perhaps the collision put holes in multiple compartments. I wonder if the insurance company or the country will want to get to the bottom of it. In any event, good episode. Thank you.
Shady Captain - great reporting. Thanks.
I cannot understand why blame the GPS, a navigator should be able to read a chart and take bearings of lighthouse and other land marks, use the echo sounder to find depth. Also due to the sun and the magnetic influence all instruments may have errors.
Is there any update for this case? Has the wreck been removed from that beach ?
Possibilities on why he's hedging - The ship was in (whatever) shipyard and had ~illegal~ mods done for possible smuggling. If they accessed areas meant to be sealed, and did not reseal them (as they were to be used to 'hide items') that may have contributed to the leaks, and then with the damage, resulted in further water ingress.
As for the navigation error, if they used an idiot at the helm (what legit captain would sign on for illegal use ship?) that could easily account for the nav error.
He may also not want to name the shipyard if they are blaming said yard for the damage to the GPS antenna, and not replacing AIS (legal reasons)
Good job.
When it comes to the vessel being holed and capsizing there are a number of questions. First, the collision bulkhead should be watertight, so assuming the bulbous bow was forward of the collision bulkhead and it was holed. Was the hull breached on the other side of the collision bulkhead? How many and which compartments can be flooded before stability was lost? Did anyone close the watertight doors? Were the bulkheads truly watertight? Or, were there ventilation ducts, wire ways, or pipe penetrations that compromised the watertight integrity of the bulkheads? And my favorite, were there any modifications made without the knowledge of the naval architects and the regulatory bodies?
I remember my boss being asked about a heavily damaged tanker that was being towed from Houston, Texas to Newport News, Virginia during hurricane season, being how far the vessel would sink if it started to take on water. His answer was simple, "how deep is the water?" The vessel had a zero compartment floodable length.
As we often see in the private jet industry, owner/operators are rarely competent or above board...
Boat has a compass, charts, all the items you need to plot a course without needing GPS. Damaged GPS is no excuse.
Great detective work!
can be fix it or recovered that 007 yachts. .? and how to recovered a ship from capsized.
A GPS receiver does not get Bearing/Heading data relative to it's orientation. The info is calculated from the change in position between fixes. A separate gyro system tied to GPS may supply Bearing/Heading into via dead reckoning, but simply tilting a GPS antenna will only change which satellites provide the fix data. Poor knowledge of the area and failure to plan the vessels movements are probably the main cause, if not, at the very least, the cause of the poorly judged beaching
I was trying to find the video of you answering Questions from your viewers but I can't. So here is my question. What do you think about the Majesty yachts 140 and 175 Composite build yachts vs the normal build of yachts?? I love watching your channel you give out great Info and great yacht videos..
Good vid! I worked in the marine industry for 16 years. I don’t think the vessel operator was certified at all.
I read an article (by _SuperYacht Times,_ I think) asking about why there were "so many" accidents aboard yachts. The article stated essentially that not all crew are competent as you'd believe; the bigger yachts that pay more have the best crew. Often, the "old" people who shouldn't stay in the profession find their way to smaller yachts. (Similar to not all drivers are good drivers, especially the older ones.)
'Old' can also mean very experienced though.....In the yacht game some of the youngsters dont look old enough to tie their own shoe laces, ..in this instance, one crew member went to make a coffee, the other was outside on his phone...so thats youngsters!
@@livinghistoryfilms3721 I don't how you classify 'youngster' for someone who went to make coffee. My wife and parents do that, but not my kid.
As for cell phone, that could be anyone as well.
AIS have dedicated GPS antennas. If it was faulty it shouldn't affect the nav. There should be a separate GPS antenna for nav and a vessel of that size usually has a back up antenna
Hey, tell us how they go about fixing/floating that capsized yacht! 🤔
Hi Sir.
A question. How does a Superyacht such as Nord transit the Suez Canal given sanctions et al assuming a fair size fee is payable given her size and gross tonnage?
Because the Suez Canal is operated by the Egyptian authorities and Egypt likely hasn't hoped on the completely pointless sanctions bandwagon!
where there is marine scale money involved, it is often possible , depending on the location and situation, that a little more money, in secret, can make problems go away. In some cultures with poverty, this is kind of understood, as normal business as usual. sometimes situations are created just to get solved by pay offs.
long ago I was delivering grain to communist russia, the crops had failed . grain takes a long time to unload, and when we arrived, there were lots of ships at anchor, waiting to dock. the Indian ship next to us said it was slow going , they had already been in line for over a month and an half with no indication of when they would go to dock. we anchored, contacted our agent , our american ship might have been better funded than the Indian ship, and we were docked and working cargo in two days. I do remember during the radio conversation with the Indian ship, he described the situation as "hopeless."
@@4869479to mr, Schumann, respectfully, you don't know that, so why run your mouth. it could have just as easily been a financial decision , as most things are, rather than political.
As long as "Nord" isn't a Warship it is free to pass the Suez as long as the Fees are Paid.
For what its worth, I think you have done very well to talk to that captaini. From what you have said I suspect he is attempting to muddy the waters by changing the numbers and avoiding answers to what seem to me to be very simple questions. ( If the second deck hand was on the phone, captian must have been looking at him at time of impact. Why was there water in crews cabin(s) before impact, and why is the general arrangement of the vessel not available for inspection?) as you say, it seems to generate more questions than answers. Again very well done to get to speak with him at all.
That's why I always rely on my trusty placemat map. Good ole restaurant map of the area. Haven't run aground once! 😂 Then again, I don't own a boat either!