I worked on M/Y Utopia IV and we crashed into a gasoline tanker at 20knots. The tanker sank. Several of our crew were injured. The ship owner has refused to pay our wages and refused to pay for medical care so we filed 7 federal lawsuits.
@@cadetpiyushpandey5752 7 of our crew members have filed federal lawsuits for unpaid wages. Utopia refused to pay our wages since the crash and are currently still refusing to pay both medical care and refusing to pay our wages. These are very nasty people and it’s going to be a contentious trial.
@@douglasbanks3318 thank you. I am the ETO so I don’t drive the boat (I fix the electrics). They are responsible but it takes years to get to trial in America because of how slow the court system is. Our trial is supposed to be in August. Utopia is still refusing to pay our wages and they want to change US case law so that a shipowner would not have to be responsible for their crews wages and injuries.
@@cadetpiyushpandey5752 No, Utopia denies all liability including the liability of paying our wages. We will go to trial. Case # 22-23847-Civ if search on pacer.
@@douglasbanks3318 our crash was Christmas Eve 2021. The Captain of the 63m/207ft superyachts I was working on (for a week) abandoned his watchkeeping duties while doing 20knots north of Nassau and 14 minutes later we crashed into and subsequently sank a gasoline tanker. A journalist on RU-vid called Esysman Superyacht News broke the story and has covered it numerous times. The owner of our yacht Loren Ridinger refused to pay our wages and denies all liability. 🙄
The Costa didn’t have 4,300 cars onboard. That’s some 7,000 to 10,000 tons of extra dead weight right there, apart from the weight of the ship itself, which has to be built much sturdier than a passenger cruising ship to be able to accommodate all those vehicles in the first place.
A classmate of mine from Columbus, Ohio, developed some of the earliest remote deep water robotic salvage equipment. In the early 1980s to late 1980s. Just a smart guy, whose talent was recognized and he was sent to engineering schools, paid for by the companies that would eventually employ him. He invented and patented some complex underwater robotics. That have since been eclipsed by the latest technology. In high school in the 1970s, he built an autonomous, robot that could mow his parent's lawn.
Yup, oil companies keep all the profit, while the citizens pay for their cleanup operations.... Typical corporate greed... while we fall for it like fools...
Don't use an American salvage company !!!!! thats what you don't do !! And it was not the biggest salvage in history in fact there was no need to cut this up and took way to long even the Costa Concordia didn't take this long !!!!
Now engineers are failing at ship design. Look at a cruise ship. It's taller than it is wide. = not at all naturally stabil ! Designers/Engineers need to go back to school!
