While investigators seek answers for why a storm downburst led to the tragedy, and whether manslaughter and negligent shipwreck are to be brought, Captain Stephen Edwards issued a lengthy statement.
The two luxury liners, which cost a combined $265 million, slammed into each other after a vicious gust of wind off the Italian coast of Naples put them on a collision course.
Though its initial plans for the Line seem to have been scaled back – by a lot – Saudi Arabia’s wildly ambitious, and at times impractical, vision to remake the desert country into a tourist paradise is not over.
The Saudi royals are renowned for their expensive taste and extravagant lifestyle and their completely OTT superyacht called Serene is the gold-leaf proof in the pudding.
A journalist has called out Jeff Bezos’ superyacht Koru for potentially being constructed from so-called “blood timber”.
The rules already don’t really apply to billionaires. Put a billionaire out at sea on a yacht, and by golly, anything goes.
Maybe if Jeff Bezos had a smaller boat, little Tommy down the street wouldn’t have to be made to feel like a rich drol because his dad put in a pool.
On Sunday, Obiang’s superyacht sailed away from Cape Town, released as it was apparently “unlawfully attached” and leaving South African businessman Daniel Janse van Rensburg in the lurch.
The 141-metre Nord superyacht, which was sanctioned by the EU, the UK, and the US, was due to dock in Cape Town Harbour on November 11 after setting sail from Hong Kong.
The 141-metre Nord superyacht that was due to arrive in Cape Town on Wednesday has gone off the radar. After all the uproar, was that Cape Town story just a ruse?
The 141-metre Nord superyacht was due to dock in Cape Town Harbour today after setting sail from Hong Kong.
It’s widely reported that the Nord superyacht, worth in the region of R9 billion and headed for our shores, is owned by Russian Alexey Mordashov.
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Staff working on yachts often become so swept up by the massive amounts of money and the exclusivity of the industry that they don’t dare rock the boat.
Yachts hold their own kind of star power and their glitz and glamour make them ideal stars for that box office blockbuster or Netflix drama.
Another of Paul Allen’s superyachts, a 91-metre whopper known as Tatoosh, has just hit the market.
A James Bond-themed superyacht that sails under the British flag, and is owned by a Swiss businessman, just sank into the shallow, azure waters of Greece.
A video captured the moment a 40-metre-long superyacht capsized over the weekend, sinking a few kilometres off the coast of Italy.
Seven crew members and nine passengers on the yacht were able to evacuate to other boats nearby unharmed, but the superyacht is thought to be unsalvageable.
The magnate is really into Japanese culture, which he so dotingly showed off with the design of his 87,7-metre superyacht named after a legendary samurai.
On paper, the owner of Scheherazade is non-sanctioned Russian billionaire Eduard Khudainatov, but he is likely just acting as a “straw owner” to hide the true owner of the superyacht – Putin.
Some of the yet-to-be-sanctioned Russian oligarchs are doing their best to make sure their yachts aren’t seized.
When you spend the best part of two decades working on superyachts, you’re going to have stories of excess to share with the world.
It is well known that the interiors of private vessels are kept secret, with the crew and guests asked to keep the inside business away from the outside world.
Mooring a superyacht in Monaco during one of its peak annual events comes with a high cost and fierce competition.
The video surfaced on Jake’s TikTok account, showing the brothers jumping from the deck of ‘The Flying Fox’, a 136-metre luxury charter superyacht.
Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko’s estimated $580 million, 140-metre “Sailing Yacht A” superyacht was dramatically seized in the Italian port of Trieste.
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Only names like Jeff Bezos, Beyoncé, and Jay-Z dare be associated with the world’s largest luxury superyacht available for charter.
The 55-year-old Ukrainian man who attempted to sink the superyacht that belongs to Russian military weapons businessman Alexander Mijeev is taking the next step to defend his country from Russia’s invasion.