Spain storm surge destroys ships in Formentera! Extreme weather causes chaos across multiple cities 

I have sailed all over the world, including the southern ocean, and can easily say that the worst weather I have ever sailed in, was in this exact area, we actually thought we were done for. What baffles me is hardly anyone shown on this video, had put on a life jacket.. Yacht owners need to do better with their emergency drills. Sad to see a Wally wrecked, but good to see the crew abandoned ship with life jackets and life raft.

Wild video, no life jackets in sight, brown eyed girl playing, people trying to push boats away with their hands. Crazy.

When I started sailing in the Med 35 years ago, (I don't know enough to be a skipper), I learned a few important things about anchorage and bad weather. First never take anchor in such a way as the wind might push you to the shore, always the opposite because it is safer; second, flee bad weather, and third, if not possible, you might be better off out at see than near any land... as long as the boat is closed and doesn't hit rock, it floats and you can keep the crew and passengers safe. The guys I sailed with had started in their teens, and as soon as the anchor would start dragging, they would sense it and all would immediately come on deck start the engine and react. I sailed recently with RYA skipper, but was not impressed by his anchoring skills, way to ,confident on his super expensive anchor... and lacking experience and ability to sense the dragging.

4:15 The whale warning was issued two days bafore. Why were all those boats still moored there ? Where were the skippers ? Collisions, bad manouvers,.... lack of experience, lack of expertise, neglect ... no sea is always quite ...

Don't worry the cafe is still open

Hacía días que estaban avisando del temporal, muchos se fueron de las islas y otros fueron negligentes, no hicieron caso de los avisos.

I didn't see life jackets on any of the people on the decks of the boats struggling in the storm.😮

Wow, beautiful “Wally Yacht” on her side!

Ups and downs of rolling anchorages ,life at sea !

,en las noticias, en la radio ,en internet ,fuimos advertidos...todos menos estos ? estos no saben lo que es el mar no le tienen respeto.

We must be prepared for everything in excessive way for sure

Power of Mother Nature never ceases to amaze. She doesn’t like us humans anymore and will continue to kick our butts. 🌎

Sometimes you should get out to sea and just ride it out.

Once I got lost on the wind surf to Ibiza ,during my so many years living in Ibiza never seen such a storm in these heavenly Ireland's,

Apparently it is safer out at sea. Rocks are too hard

Some of those larger sailboats have to be charters with a professional captian/crew. Can't believe they would get caught flat footed like that!

Good videos, but the AI voiceover is just horrible.

Almost nobody on those boats was wearing a lifejacket! From all of those clips, I spotted only 4 people with lifejackets on in an inflatable dinghy.

It's not the weather that is the problem. It's planning your passages well.

I’ve yet to anchor my boat near shore in 70+ mile an hour winds. You do then you’re like these inexperienced captains!

Looks like we're at the 'Finding Out' part of 'Fuck Around'.

I’m a Spaniard and spent my first 30 years there, until 1990. These phenomena were unheard of back them, no DANAs to speak of; it’s clear that weather patterns have changed in a matter of decades.

Old Boy Scout motto, 'Be prepared', comes to mind...

lol...dangerously high winds, as female tourist casually manages to light her cigarette on the first try!

Nous avons affronté avec un voilier de 10 mètres un coup de vents force 10. L'anémomètre était au taquet. Nous nous sommes mis en fuite en trainant une ancre flottante constituée des matelas ficelés ensemble. Avec mon épouse, nous avons eue la trouille de notre vie. C'était entre l'Espagne et les Baléares.

People eating at a cafe? People on their boats? No life jackets? Have people lost their minds?

Vamos ala playa..!

Esto ha pasado toda la vida. La diferencia principal es que ahora hay muchos barcos de recreo en los que sus gobernantes están a otras cosas y no a la seguridad de la nave. Por otra parte, las urbanizaciones y construcciones de todo tipo, impiden que el agua de lluvia discurra por sus barrancos y sitios habituales, por lo que cuando hay una tormenta térmica grande, el agua se amontona y no discurre hasta que lo hace violentamente. España sufre en estas épocas de lluvias torrenciales todos los años. Hasta hace unos pocos años se denominaban "Gotas Frías" y su poder destructor es enorme. Nada nuevo bajo el sol.

Sometimes storms are unpredictable. I believe in keeping eye on barometer and satellite images. Former Coast Guard.

Watching storms start to form Over America Can't do anything Just watch them swing with the wind out to sea All you sailors - get out of the waves, get out of the water All life-savers - get out of the waves, get out of the water All you cruisers - get out of the waves, get out of the water All you fishermen head for home...(Kate Bush)

Dang it! No wonder the cruisers are always warbling-on about their extra-large anchors and chain!

mucho viento pero en el 3:16 se enciende un piti la mujer como si nada

There are no sudden storms, only incompetent skippers!

Scheiss AI Stimmen. Ist echt sooo nervig inzwischen.

Don‘t panic. Residents don‘t like tourists anyway. 🤧

Ok, at :036... SHUT YOUR FREAKING WINDOWS!!!

I was in Formentera then but o slept through it

Can you do a video on the storm that sunk the Bayesian Yacht??? and its impact on the island too???

Nous avons vécu une pareille tempête soudaine il y a trente ans chez nous en sud ouest de la France. Par bonheur il n'y eut aucune victime, par contre beaucoup de dégâts. Une amie était en mer en train de rentrer au port et a eu l'intelligence de sortir de la zone côtière et se mettre à la cape. Seule sur le pont avec une amie, les hommes étaient dans la cabine terrorisés. Sans commentaire !!

Paddel or kayak on a river is BY FAR the best navigation experience and at los cost and low problems.

EL MAR NO PERDONA A LOS INEXPERTOS. 24/7 HAY QUE ESTAR PREPARADO PARA TODO. LOA SABEN LOS VERDADEROS NAVEGANTES.

not new in august that we have stom an rain ....

Great commentary.

As Floridan this is just ordinary hurricane...Nothing extreme...Owners of boats and yaghts should watch weather forecast every single day to avoid such stupidity as let destroying their own boats or businesses...In the end I wouldn't be surprised if insurance companies would just denied to pay their mistakes and damages...🤔

Ces tempêtes étaient prévues !!! Et annoncées !!!! Comme toujours, elles ne sont pas respectées !!!!

Looks wild, doesn't it? Here is why: Never before so many cameras to produce videos and the infrastructure to distribute them was so readily available. And never before so many (obviously badly trained) boat owners existed on our oceans.

A lot of ignorance and/or lack of experience among these boat owners.

Slippers, have barometer that warm them before weather forecast of pressures to get out if there. The island is, very flat therefore need to get out. In hurricane island boats moor put with chaibes, anchors as many as possible. The storm changed wind direction suddenly for that reason skippers as wally were pushed to rocks on a, flat island. The islands, have always, had these, storms. The Mediterranean sudden storms are more intense than Atlantic storms. In Gibraltar straight very commem decades of storms affecting even maritime freighter seeking ports. Look how boats, prepare at carribean islands. They either take them out to land in warehouses , take thrm to other side of island, going out to sea not a chance with hurricane 4 winds. I've been through Mediterranean storms and it's, been like this. since 70s. Why do you think the tress are bushes, on the island it's due to high winds. Mixed with charter boats, that have no clue and have only one anchor.

A lot of pain and suffering. The bigger boats look more vulnerable. Assuming a sea worthy boat putting out to sea maybe the best option to avoid harbour chaos?

che brutto ferragosto anche i ricchi piangono

🫤 They were advised about the upcoming of a storm or not? This is terrible.

Closing the port for 1, 2 or even 3 days is common when the conditions require it, we don't die of starvation, we have enough supplies lol. Once the ports open there is a lot of work for putting those supplies out ASAP. Also, how did those with their boats go out on days like these, warnings were issued. Last year a man with his son died for going out during a bad day like this.

I hope everybody is safe

Nature Strike Back

It's just that time of year. This happens regularly in the spring and late summer/ autumn. Nothing unusual.

For that rafnar 1100 is the bestt boat ever for this kind of weather

Weather control targeting specific seas. This is not natural.

Qué tiempo duró ese temporal batiendo en el mismi lugar? Si no son muy extensos lo mejor es salirlo a Capear.

I live in Newyork I have seen storms but nothing like this. This is crazy specially in Spain Europe??

Wooow, that's wild! I would love to see the radar data on this squall!

You should all research this strom before these "experienced" comments. It literally hit within minutes so that captains did not even have time to save their boats let alone put a life jacket on. 🙄

Nur auf den Balearen wußte man nicht, was für ein Unwetter aufzieht! Das nenne ich Vorbereitung!!!!!

4:14 Guy almost head-plants on a rock. A grounded boat is not worth a fractured skull

Die Sturmflut kann man nicht mit Wasserpistolen vertreiben ... 🥶

Does no-one take note of weather forecasts in Spain? These events are pretty much always predicted and far too many were taken completely unaware.

Sometimes it just sucks to be a yatch or sailing vessel owner.

Amateur sailors who doesn't check the weather forecast.

this happens every year, nothing special

wow...

LOL Luckily, we Brits are not welcome . we missed the storm LOL

The narration is brutal.

Nature Bats Last

You’d be half expecting George clooney to sail by

Is this the same storm that sank the Bayesian mega yacht?

Balearic squall going insane and a wally love yacht grounded, a difficult weather to cope with a brave people who face it knowing it. Even if you anchor is holding other boat can catch you so beware and drop all lines with good knots (figure eight or double hitch) with nylon rope in between even 300m if necessary and set the anchors by hand with free diving snorkel equipment

Heart breaking

I didn't see anything of this on tv news

Jajaja, extreme wheather? Every August/ September we have almost one or two DANA , the unique difference is that these time so much people ignored the warnings

Klugscheißern von der Couch aus ist natürlich immer einfacher, aber man versucht ja etwas daraus zu lernen. Ich kann einfach nicht verstehen, warum da überhaupt noch Dinghis und Solarzellen bei einigen Booten draußen sind. Die Angriffsfläche des Windes zu minimieren ist doch das Erste was man macht. Das war bei diesen Booten doch einfach 0 Vorbereitung auf einen vorhergesagten, bekannten Sturm?!!

A bunch of rich people lost their toys.

SOME SEAMANSHIP!

Any skipper without boat damage ? And what is the best approach in that case for future occurrence?

FormentEra has stress on the 3rd syllable.

0:36 chiudete le finestre...MUOVERSI!!!

No coffee at the beach today folks with Van Morrison

dayum last time i was there in august it was 44 deg cel, water flat as glass.

Nice Wally on the beach...

A formentera magno anche quello che non c’era.

Unrelated to the storm… WHY ARE PEOPLE FILMING IN PORTRAIT MODE. Sorry…. sorry…. I know, I know, I’m taking the wrong thing from this. In landscape they could capture the whole picture of what’s going on…. it. just. drives. me. nuts.

6:25 This is Can Pere Antoni beach in Palma de Mallorca.

La terra si sta riprendendo quello che è suo!!

😮😮my nightmare on a boat!

Well that is stupid, people shouldn't go to the sea with that weather!

Haarp at his best

Eso tendria que pasar cuando esten llegando pateras para que se undan y asi no vienen

Das ist nicht SPANIENS Sturmflut, sondern die Sturmflut in Spanien!

I traded in my Super Yacht for a Super Sub. Water quite calm 150 feet below the surface.

Ein schrecklicher Film. Kompliment für die, die die Nerven hatten, diese Bilder aufzunehmen. Wohl den Zuschauern, die - wie wir - derartige Unwetter nicht erleben mussten. Wir sind selbst Segler und waren viele Jahre im Mittelmeer unterwegs.

Marineros de agua dulce.

The rich cry too, yeah!