Posted on 09/03/2025 9:34:09 AM PDT by lowbridge
A luxury yacht worth nearly $1 million plunged into the waters off the shore of Turkey just 15 minutes after its maiden voyage as panicked passengers and crew jumped overboard.
Dramatic amateur video shows the vessel, named Dolce Vento, ease into the waters off the coast of Zonguldak in northern Turkey’s Eregli district Tuesday before lurching to one side and slowly sinking into the depths.
It was the first time the approximately 85-foot boat, worth around $940,000, was launched after being delivered to its owner from Istanbul.
The owner, captain and two crew members jumped overboard and safely swam to shore without injury, and the Coast Guard and port teams responded to set up a security perimeter around the flailing watercraft.
Officials at the shipyard said the cause of the sinking was under investigation, and that technical inspections of the yacht will be carried out to determine what happened.
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Well done! (Now watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.)
Scoff if you will....85 feet is considerable tonnage.
Whatever the size of a boat or ship, the primary concern is that it’s water tight.
Be it new or refurbished, someone, somewhere did something wrong.
“The fact that watercraft rely on a screw in plug that requires manual insertion and has no feedback for installation or back up system for failure is just astonishing.”
Nothing like that on my last boat, a 34-footer.
Yacht listing ?....I thought yacht rock...Sirius channel 15
Bilge pump installed backwards?
Btw, instead of taking on water, could it have been top heavy? Tho, it’s hard to imagine a shipbuilder/design failing so completely. And as a maiden voyage I wouldn’t think it was chock full of some sort of cargo.
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this Turkish port
Aboard this top-heavy ship.
The mate was a mighty sailing man,
The skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day
For a 3 minute cruise.
It might have cost $940,000. If ever “worth” that, it’s not now. Might be some salvagable stainless steel and brass fittings.
One million isn’t much of a yacht, in yacht circles. There are many, many sport fishing boats that cost five times that.
That’s why you shouldn’t buy yachts from IKEA.
For an extra 60k we can make it float. No I do not need that.
Another example of vertical navigation.
Must have been $9,400,000 instead of $940,000.
LOL, Very Good....
No longer an approx. 85-foot boat, really?
How much did that Venezuelan speed boat cost those loser yachtsmen the other day?
Judge Judy had a 16.9m 152ft yacht that was nice. Sold it for 6.7m .
Im just saying, 1m isn't chump change, but in yachts,.. its chump change.
p.s. my ride was orth north of 100m and rode UNDER the waves, had a crew of 130 and rode out the worst hurricanes without rocking.
That went down way too fast to be caused by an open drain plug. My guess is port engine exhaust.
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