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This is Superyacht News. Hi all, welcome back to the channel. Hope you had a great weekend. We've got a really puzzling story in today. We've got another man overboard from a cruise ship. Uh this ship is the Ovation of the Seas, which is the Royal Caribbean ship. And apparently a crew me a crew member loosely uh went overboard from like I said, Ovation of the Seas. Um this was on Friday. The story is a bit vague in terms of how he went over who the man is or even if it's I think it's a man. Um we don't have any details on where he's from. Uh we just know that he's a he identified himself as a piano player from Ovation of the Seas to the two men who rescued him.
Now, like I said, it happened on uh the 6th of November. Um now the information we've g been given suggests it happened around uh 0 2:30 hours. So 2:30 in the morning local time. However uh we think it might have been later than that which we'll go into in a minute. Uh just based on the fact of the AIS data from the cruise ship at what times it went past the area where he was located. So there were two fishermen uh Sha Norton and Grant Garrett. They would been fishing for maron near Catalina Island, which is on the west coast of the US if you're not from that from the US. It's off the coast of California effectively. Um, and they were heading
back to Newport Beach uh with the when the boat's captain spotted something in the water. Grant Garrett described the moment. He said, "I'm like, yeah, it's a human being. Stop the boat and let's get all of our lines." And so the two men pulled him out of the water. Um they said they grabbed him by the arm, an arm each and they pulled him out and they said the man was wearing a red shirt and according to the fisherman was initially barely responsive and when he came round he identified himself as a pianist on Ovation of the Seas and the only thing he said was, "Thank you. I thought I was going to die." The fisherman issued an emergency maritime call um and uh Newport Beach lifeguards took custody of
the man and rushed him to hospital. Now the in I mean that's very interesting in itself. I was going to say the interesting part uh the fact there's a number of interesting factors to this story. The first one is that he survived as long as he did about 9 hours they saying um I mean the water in that area is not normally that warm even you know especially at this time of year but because of the El Nino that we're having this year very strong. They said that the water there was 76° Fahrenheit which is about just under 25° C. Um and uh one of the fishermanmen said that you know a different year and no way he makes it which is quite true. You know there would be he was probably already
suffering from hypothermia even though it was 24° the water. You know your core temperature is 36° approximately. So if you're in if you're in water that is uh is you know just a few degrees cold colder than your core temperature will eventually lower even when it's that warm. But that is effectively probably what saved his life and probably it was probably calm weather as well. Um the what's amazing about this story is that as you'll probably you've noticed from the AAS data from the ship, the ship didn't search for him because they didn't know he was missing. We can see the path of Ovation of the Seas here. And you can see that this is Newport Beach, which is where the fisherman said they were heading when
they spotted the man in the water. So, I'm going to make an assumption until we get more information that they were crossing over from this fishing area here. Like I said, it could be from the north that way. Could have been could have been that way or it could have been that way. But I'm going to say that around here is where they would have seen him in the water. That's quite far out to sea, isn't it? We don't know when exactly he went over. Um, some of the estimates have estimated 2:30 a.m. local time, 10:30 uh UTC, but you can see here that the time that the vessel passed by was 11:50. Uh, and if we go up here, 12:16 UTC, and you can see it's 12:49.
I would estimate that he went overboard between 11:50 and 12:50 uh UTC, which is around uh 4:50 a.m., so more like 5:00 in the morning. So, the ship carried on and it docked in Los Angeles and they were um disembarking guests at 7:00 in the morning. The, you know, the alarm was raised by the fisherman. it. There's no information about when the cruise ship was notified that they'd found a member of the crew and um it would appear that the Royal Caribbean ship did not notice that he went overboard, right? I think we can assume that, you know, they say don't assume, but the fact that they never searched for him and just carried on about their business means that they did they didn't know. Now, when we did this
last story about the woman that actually jumped over the side, there was a lot of talk about the CCTV systems and automatic manoverboard alert systems and stuff. Uh, according to US USA Today reporting in 2025, Royal Caribbean is among the lines, the cruise lines that have not publicly disclosed whether their ships have overboard detection technology. Disney, by contrast, they do have a system and they've they've got it on they've got it on their entire fleet. So, yeah, Royal Caribbean's not saying that they have it, which probably means that they don't have it. It's not a requirement to have it if the vessel is not US flagged. And there was and also there was a two 2017 incident in
the Bahamas where they looked at the cameras and they realized that the person went overboard in an area that wasn't covered by CCTV. So, yeah. And also the, you know, the automated system, even if they have them, they're not 100% accurate. So, it would require somebody to be looking at the cameras when that person went overboard. So, it's understandable how they could miss him. Uh, what earlier when I said he was loosely a crew member, what I mean by that is he's a pianist. So, really, he's an entertainer. Uh they do have a very uh depending on the role and depending on the ship. They usually have a crew position for emergencies, you
know, to do with lifeboats and stuff or standing in stairways guiding people to the lifeboats in the event of an emergency. So they do some of them have that. Some of them have a super numer um position on board which basically means that they just uh they don't have any duties at all. So it just depends on the cruise line. I've never worked for Royal Caribbean so I'm not sure how they work it. Um, so yeah, so he is a guest entertainer, which probably means that he has his own cabin as well. So if he's on there on his own in his own cabin, then nobody's going to notice that he's missing, right? If he goes overboard in the early hours, nobody's going to notice unless somebody sees it or they have a system that
alerts them to it. So yeah, so you know, saved by Good Samaritan, which is great stuff. and the Royal Caribbean all they've said is uh when we contacted them all they've said is we're providing support and assistance to our crew member during this difficult time to respect the privacy of our employee we have no additional details to share of course they don't I'm sure there'll there'll be an investigation as part there'll be an official government investigation of course life coast guard and they'll probably have an internal investigation of course we'll never get the we'll never hear the results of that investigation it's unlikely unless they decide to release it.
Um, we'll bring you more when we have it. Like I said, there's very little information about the man. Uh, the reason why. Did he fall over? Was he drunk? Did he jump? You know, the fact that he said, "I thought I was going to die," sort of suggests that he didn't intentionally go over or he wasn't trying to, you know, visit David Jones's locker or anything like that. So, it does seem like it might have been accidental. Uh, we'll bring you more. Like I said, now I got an update on Amore Vero. I mentioned in a previous video that the vessel left uh Lassiota after effectively 5 years since it was since the vessel was sanctioned or since the person who's who's um classified
as the owner, Eiggo Setchin, who's um known as Darth Vader in Russia and uh Putin's right-hand man. um that vessel's linked to him and when he was sanctioned that vessel was detained in uh in Lassiota shipyard which is near Marseilles and it's been there ever since and the vessel suddenly left last week uh 2nd of November. Now we contacted uh four different departments of the French government and we contacted last year directly and they I wrote the statement in the in that previous video but I'll read it again. They just said the vessel's departure has been scheduled for several weeks in consultation with the captain, the port, and the customs administration.
It meant the need to free up the keys for the shipyard's activities. The vessel has settled all sums owned to LCS, Lassiosa shipyard. Its birthing took place in good understanding between the parties in the particular context of the immobilization. Questions relating to the vessel's administrative situation fall to the competent authorities. We have no further statements. So basically they're saying everything was paid. You know, reportedly the company that owns the vessel was paying for the upkeep of the yacht even though it was sanctioned, which is something that the French law allows them to do. So the owner was paying for the upkeep of that vessel even though his vessel's been sanctioned, right? Um and they're saying
that everything was paid in full before it left and they're happy. Um now, um the French government, we like I said, we contacted four different departments. One of them got back to us and this is the sum of their statement. Hello, thank you for your message. However, we do not comment on individual cases and this is from the assistant to the head of the press and communication department. So, sounds like they've got an easy job, right? If they never answer press queries, then why are they there? So, anyway, I'm sure they answer some of them, but they don't answer uh comments on individual cases. So, yeah, but we
can assume based on the movements where the vessel went. Like I said, it went to Antib. If that had been released, it wouldn't be an Ante, right? It would sail right out of the EU and into, you know, North African waters or something and head to Sewers Canal or something like that. It would not go to another French port. So, we can assume that it's headed there and it's being detained in Antib. Now, an Amorei Vero uh it was built by Ocean Co. I said uh Fedship in the previous video. Obviously, that was a mistake. built in 2013 and gross tonnage 2,800 gross tons and like I said there's lots of data out there that's that even though the people the lawyers for ego section say he doesn't own the boat it's
being linked to him by the French government and it was named after his ex-wife and then when he got divorced the name changed so you know that's a very big coincidence right it just happens to be named after his ex-wife and then it just happened to change names after he got divorced so yeah I'm sure that's a coincidence Yeah, there you go. So, we got one more thing for you. We've got some footage here of a yacht in very rough waters. So, I'll play that for you now. You can see here the boat is pitching heavily even though it's alongside. There's two crew members uh well they appear to be crew members. They could be uh from the port. They're trying to get the vessel under control. There's no pasarel out on this boat uh
which has probably been stowed because of the poor weather. So, those two chaps on the port side, they might not be uh from the crew because there's no way for them to get ashore or get back on board. So, it's possible that they're from the port. Like I said, don't know the name of the yacht and we don't know where this took place. Someone sent it to us today asking if it was real. It is very real and it's quite normal to be honest. It's probably in a birth that's open to the elements that, you know, there's no uh there's no protection from the open ocean and the water's just coming in and causing the vessel to pitch. Just one last thing before I go. It's just
reminded me. Um somebody sent that to me and asked me if it was real. Uh seen a lot of comments lately saying that there's AI footage in the videos. There is we don't use AI footage, just so you know. The only time we've ever showed any AI footage was when we were shown that it was AI footage and that it wasn't real because people were asking us if this was real. I think we've done it a couple of times now. Um, there was one where there was two yachts supposedly racing against each other. That was fake as well. So, we only show AI footage to tell you that it's fake. Um, there's been no footage. It was about Luna the story that people were saying that the footage of the boat was AI. It wasn't. It was just very
clear, very good footage. Um, so yeah, we don't use AI footage, like I said, unless we're showing that it's not real and not knowingly anyway. All right, guys. That's all I've got for you today. Please be sure to check us out on Patreon at patreon.com/sisman. We've got loads of videos on there going back a few years now. I think it's been three years on Patreon. Four years maybe. Um, yeah. So, check us out. patreon.com/isman. And if you've got any information for us, please be sure to get us in the email address or the phone number on screen, which is also a signal number. Uh, and you can, if you want to send us stuff, you can send it through the weed transfer link, which is on screen. It's also in the description, so is the phone
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