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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Somebody must have forgot to put in the Sean Penn plug.
Old time Swedish Warship naval architects involved?
Was the gun deck overloaded?
Just, sit right back and you’ll hear a tale…
So tell me. How does this happen? For a million dollars you’d think they’d get it right.
And just like that, it did the Guam.
Not any more.
Now that’s what I call a listing on Yacht World.
“Just, sit right back and you’ll hear a tale…”
In this case, a 1/4-hour tour.
Somebody forgot to put in the drain plug?
I hope the luxury yacht’s owner can look on the bright side.
Because now he owns a luxury artificial reef.
🐠
$1m is hardly a dingy on a luxury yacht. Its the helicopter , jet skiis and the shore skiff
Ballast was too expensive, I guess.
Exactly.
I hate it when that happens....................
They must’ve left off of zero both that size brand new for 1 million bucks. I think somebody left a zero off.
Last night I watched a YouTube video posted by WAVY Boats of a $10M (they said) yacht grounded during a nor-easter in Florida, with TowBoat US trying to get it off the beach.
Video stated that during delivery, both engines seized and the generator stopped.
They didn’t get the yacht off the beach. Video stated another attempt was going to be tried at high tide, 2AM.
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.
I’m surprised that it was only valued at a million dollars.
You can easily get into the million plus range in fairly mundane 45-50 footers these days.
Perhaps they charge extra for a design that floats upright! 😊
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