"Fifteen minutes of fame"

[argonsagas]

Are not always welcome.,

This million-dollar yacht seemed to have some built-in desire to qualify for a spot on the list of others that got their respective "15 minutes of fame" as that is how long it remained above water after its first launch.

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/brand-1m-luxury-yacht-capsizes-140039992.html

longer video

https://www.foxnews.com/world/luxury-yacht-tips-sinks-minutes-after-launch-terrified-passengers-jump-overboard


Maybe next time the owner could try riding a motorycle across the water....it has been more successful than his boat...and also in Turkey.

https://www.advpulse.com/adv-news/robbie-maddison-sets-record-riding-on-water-from-europe-to-asia/

[Grimly]

If they'd put in enough ballast to counter the over-indulgent upper decks, the damn thing would have just sunk on launching anyway.

[bccap]

Ship's architects follow basic stability laws even when they are being creative . It will be interesting to see what comes of the investigation ... There are two types of ballast . Water for trimming and hard ballast built into the ship . I don't know what happened but I can speculate .... Had it been launched with no water ballast it would have bobbed around . But it turned turtle making me suspect that somehow the hard ballast wasn't installed . I find that difficult to believe but it is the only reason I can see ...... Top heavy design would have been addressed by the ship's architect during construction using stability laws ..... So either the designer missed a decimal point or the hard ballast wasn't built in ......