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Brand new $1M luxury yacht tips over and sinks just minutes after launching — forcing crew to jump overboard

Brand new luxury yacht Dolce Vento sinks within 15 minutes of launching off the coast of Turkey


A yacht worth nearly $1 million sank in the water 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, the Dolce Vento, ease into the water off the coast of Zonguldak in northern Turkey’s Eregli district Tuesday before lurching to one side and slowly sinking into the depths.

Luxury yacht launching in Eregli, Turkey.

The Dolce Vento launched for the first time Tuesday off northern Turkey.

Luxury yacht sinking in Eregli, Turkey.

Within minutes, the $940,000 vessel started swaying in the water.

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 swam to shore without injury, and the coast guard and port teams responded to set up a security perimeter around the foundering watercraft.

Passengers and crew, including the boat’s owner, sought refuge on the side of the sinking yacht before diving into the water and swimming to shore.

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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I hope no life was lost. That's the most important


Brand new $1M luxury yacht tips over and sinks just minutes after launching — forcing crew to jump overboard

The builders must make a full refund.

I don't like nonsense.

Morbeta11:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDtM_grr87Y?si=qk62A2TD9wenS7wB

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Brand new $1M luxury yacht tips over and sinks just minutes after launching — forcing crew to jump overboard.

Brand new luxury yacht Dolce Vento sinks within 15 minutes of launching off the coast of Turkey

That is a big loss to the company very big loss I hope they recover

This news is older than Methuselah, Nairaland Mods are always last with trending news, very bad for a social media platform.

Seun you need to engage Mods that follow up on hot news, not days after we have watched and talked about an event on several social media platforms Nairaland will be bringing it to Front Page as Breaking News

Bad Production. That's all I can say! A yatch is tipping over when technology has made it possible for yatches to be unsinkable

Why is this just hitting front page abeg, I'm surprised

Vanity upon vanity. Thank God I am saved. Are you saved?

E don be, for passenger wey no sabi swim. Morale of the story: if you no sabi swim, don't enter the yatch.

Old news na wah for nairaland choi still have a long way ahead

Check very well one developer must be among the people that manufacture this sub standard yacht very good at sub standard items

Commentor:
The builders must make a full refund.

I don't like nonsense.

Even if you like nonsense, they must refund every penny