"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 ......

[LAB3]

Maybe someone forgot to put in the drain plug?

I'm leaning towards either a hull breach or possibly a ballast pump that was installed or wired backwards. If it had two separate water tanks for ballast and one filled while the other didn't that would certainly make the boat list the way it did. Ship architects DO make mistakes but let's face it, this one would need to be a major league screw up.