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CMB Yachts is an affiliate of the Basaran Group who, with a history of over 25 years with literally translated as success, is continuing to expand through successful investments in a variety of fields. CMB Yachts is located in the worlds most rapidly developing super yacht city. With advantageous tax-rules, and a heritage of yacht building spanning a millennia, Antalya in the South coast of Turkey is the location of choice for their shipyard. The primary business objective is to create high quality luxury mega yachts for distinguished clients. Committed to using the finest materials and craftsmanship, CMB Yachts collaborate<br /> with the most renowned and successful yacht designers in the World to create the most prestigious yachts on the seas. At the forefront of technology, CMB Yachts drives ideas into creativity, dreams into reality, and brings new scientific advances into yachting. Equipped with a selection of bespoke furniture, advanced design machinery, and the latest digital technology, CMB Yachts operates without any concessions on quality, safety or perfection.

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CMB Yachts is a distinguished Turkish shipyard specializing in the creation of bespoke motor yachts. Founded in 2006 within the Antalya Free Zone, they leverage the region’s rich shipbuilding heritage and skilled workforce to craft exceptional vessels.

Renowned for their meticulous attention to detail and commitment to semi-custom builds, CMB Yachts fosters close collaboration with esteemed yacht designers to translate your vision into reality. Their expertise lies in crafting motor yachts ranging from 34 to 47 meters, constructed with high-quality GRP (Glass Reinforced Plastic) to ensure both durability and lightweight performance. Whether you seek a dynamic displacement hull for extended voyages or a sleeker semi-displacement hull for thrilling adventures, CMB Yachts possesses the capability to bring your dream yacht to life.

Beyond new builds, CMB Yachts understands the importance of after-sales care. Their dedicated team provides comprehensive maintenance, warranty, and refit services, ensuring your yachting experience remains exceptional for years to come.

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CMB Yachts is an affiliate of the Basaran Group who, with a history of over 25 years with literally translated as success, is continuing to expand through successful investments in a variety of fields.

CMB Yachts is located in the world’s most rapidly developing super yacht city. With advantageous tax-rules, and a heritage of yacht building spanning a millennia, Antalya in the South coast of Turkey is the location of choice for their shipyard.

The primary business objective is to create high quality luxury mega yachts for distinguished clients. Committed to using the finest materials and craftsmanship, CMB Yachts collaborate

with the most renowned and successful yacht designers in the World to create the most prestigious yachts on the seas.

At the forefront of technology, CMB Yachts drives ideas into creativity, dreams into reality, and brings new scientific advances into yachting.

Equipped with a selection of bespoke furniture, advanced design machinery, and the latest digital technology, CMB Yachts operates without any concessions on quality, safety or perfection.

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Motor yacht Mystic is a 46 metre superyacht which was designed by Diana Yacht Design and has now been built and launched by CMB Yachts. M/Y Mystic was launched in Turkey about a month ago and she is to be delivered to her yacht owner soon. She will then cruise from the Eastern Med over to the Western Mediterranean and will be in France for the summer 2010.

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Superyacht Mystic is the first completion at the CMB Yachts yard and she is the largest composite yacht built in Turkey to-date. Motor Yacht Mystic features an interior styled by Birgit Schnaase with accommodation for 10 guests in a master suite, two double and two twin cabins.

The layout of this yacht is fairly unique with her master suite being situated on the upper deck in the area normally used for the sky lounge. And the usual place for the master suite on a superyacht is on the main deck is replaced by a large gymnasium and a cinema.

The CMB Mystic yacht is powered by twin 1450hp MTU engines and she will reach a top speed of 17 knots with a range of 4,000 nautical miles at 12 knots. The superyacht is RINA classed and MCA compliant.

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Passengers scream as superyacht worth £95m crashes into smaller boat

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This is the shocking moment a £95 million superyacht crashed into a smaller boat with at least six people on board.

Footage shows the 232 ft boat named Ice gliding through the water as it heads towards another boat off the coast of Yalıkavak, Turkey on Saturday.

Passengers on the smaller boat can be heard screaming as the superyacht sails towards them.

The vessel’s bow then crashed into the stern of a 101ft motor yacht carrying at least half a dozen people.

It is unclear why the collision occurred, but has been reported that at least half a dozen people were on the smaller boat at the time.

The boat suffered major damage at the stern but no onboard was injured.

The superyacht is part of the Lürssen shipbuilding company and can hold 14 guests and 27 crew members.

Features include a large helipad, beauty salon and bathtubs carved out of solid limestone.

There is also a state-of-the-art gym, jacuzzi and countless lounge and relaxation areas, both in- and outdoors.

The Coast Guard has launched an investigation into the incident.

In June two boats were involved in a devastating crash and a sailor was thrown overboard during a yacht race.

A man was flung from a boat as competitors battled rough seas during the Round the Island Race in the Isle of Wight today.

He then desperately clung onto his life jacket before being rescued.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) rushed to his aid to pull him from the water despite the extreme conditions.

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Breaking news, satellite video shows final minutes of the bayesian superyacht as it is dramatically blown by storm and disappears from radar.

The frightening final minutes of the doomed Bayesian yacht have been revealed in a new video, showing it being hit by a sudden storm then disappearing entirely from radar as it sank.

Satellite imaging video obtained by The Post from the early morning of August 19 shows the moments the $40m superyacht – which had 22 people aboard, seven of whom drowned in the tragedy – is dramatically blown off course by a freak storm off the coast of Porticello in Sicily, Italy.

The yacht is seen blown in a roughly South Eastern direction between 1:56am to 2:09am UTC, the equivalent of 3:56am to 4:09am in the local time. One other vessel, the Sir Robert Baden Powell, is in the same area and also gets flung across the sea.

The 185-foot Bayesian is spun anti-clockwise by more than 180 degrees from its starting point and moves around 300 meters (985 feet). The boat then stays in place as it sank, with its radar signal ominously disappearing at 3:09am UTC, or 5:09am local time, the video from Marinetraffic.com shows.

Describing the scene to Italian authorities, sailor Matthew Griffiths, who was on watch at the time of the sinking, said he “woke the captain up when the wind was blowing at 20 knots [and] he ordered to wake everyone else up,” according to Italian news service ANSA .

Griffiths also told investigators the ship “tilted and we fell into the water … We were then able to climb back on and we tried to rescue those we could.

“[The] boat was tilted and we were walking on the walls. We rescued those we could,” ANSA reported Griffiths saying.

A life raft was launched which carried 15 survivors from the yacht, nine members of staff and six guests, including a one-year-old baby. It was met by a smaller boat sent from the Sir Robert Baden Powell to aid in the rescue.

The Bayesian’s owner, British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, was trapped in a cabin as the ship rapidly sank and died. His daughter, Hannah, 18, also died in the accident, as well as five others: New York City lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda; Morgan Stanley Bank International chair Jonathan Bloomer and his wife, Judy; and the ship’s chef, Recaldo Thomas.

The exact cause of the sinking is not yet known and still under investigation by authorities. It has been suggested that a tornado-like waterspout, known as a “black swan” weather event, could have hit the vessel during the storm, giving the staff little time to react.

Others have suggested windows, portholes or other openings may have been broken or smashed open by the powerful waterspout, causing the yacht to sink so rapidly.

Officials are also looking into whether a downburst could have hit the yacht. Downbursts are a different type of weather event caused by powerful winds being projected downwards from a storm, which can be highly destructive, according to the BBC .

Three of the ship’s crew — Griffiths, ship engineer Tim Parker Eaton and captain James Cutfield — are currently under investigation over the wreck as authorities try and piece together what caused the ship to sink so rapidly.

However, Italian authorities have made clear being part of the investigation does not imply wrongdoing and is a required procedural step.

Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, survived the ordeal but has yet to speak publicly about the ordeal.

The Captain of the Sir Robert Baden Powell has also given his version of events at the time of the sinking, saying he noticed the weather deteriorating at 3am.

“When things calmed down and the storm abated somewhat … we were looking around and couldn’t see the Bayesian anymore,” captain Karsten Borner told People magazine.  

“Two passengers and two crew members saw what looked like a whale in the water and realized afterwards it was the capsized boat.

“A moment later, I saw a triangle in the sea in a split second that the sky was lit up by lightning, and that must have been the bow of the ship while sinking over the stern.”

Borner and his first mate then took the smaller boat in an attempt to help survivors.

“We first found things floating in the water like cushions and chairs and stuff. And then we saw a flickering light. This was a life raft with a light on the top. And they also waved at us with a torch.”

“So we went there, and then we found the crew and part of the passengers,” he added.

A salvage mission to raise the Bayesian from the sea bed and bring it to port in Sicily so it can be examined to find out more about its sinking is currently underway.

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Wild footage of $160m superyacht smashing into luxury boat in Turkey

This is the dramatic moment a $160 million superyacht smashes into another luxury boat and rips its stern off.

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This is the dramatic moment a whopping $160 million superyacht smashes into another luxury boat and rips its stern off in Turkey.

The 90.1 metre Lurssen superyacht ‘Ice’ was caught on footage colliding with the much smaller Numarine yacht ‘A.Mey’ in holiday hotspot Yalıkavak.

Dramatic footage shows Ice go at full speed into the rear of A.Mey, causing the vessel to chaotically spin.

The crash is audibly heard from the thrashing of the waves and the incredible impact of the superyacht to the other vessel’s stern.

The $160 million Ice continues to push the smaller luxury yacht and doesn’t appear to stop.

A.Mey continues to be dragged for a while as onlookers watch on in horror.

The yacht was being anchored when the collision took place.

The extent of the damage is unclear but Ice hit the bow with enough force to badly damage A.Mey’s rear section.

Similarly, the late Steve Jobs’ specially built megayacht was involved in a collision that was captured on camera.

The 78.2-metre Feadship superyacht Venus and the 104.6-meter Lady Moura collided off Naples, Italy last month.

A sudden change of wind has been confirmed as the cause of the collision between two mega-yachts, a source close to the matter told Boat International.

“On July 22, while at anchor, Venus came into contact with Lady Moura, which was also anchored,” the source said.

The source says that no family were on board, only crew members.

According to them, the wind changed very suddenly, going from an easy breeze to bursting to 55 knots in just a few minutes.

“Neither boat dragged anchor, though the other boat was on a chain double the length expected in the depth of water they were in,” the source said.

“Both captains were in discussion immediately following the incident about minor repairs needed.”

Footage of the incident, taken by Mexican businessman and owner of Lady Moura, Ricardo Salinas, shows the Venus’ bow colliding with the side of Salinas’ yacht.

In the video, you can Salinas and others on board the ship yelling and screaming trying to get the other crew’s attention as the boat is coming towards them.

The screams and blaring horns made no difference, however, as the Venus collided right into the side of Salinas’ yacht.

A loud thump is heard as the collision happens, but luckily the damage was minimal, according to the businessman.

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Salinas, who released the video on Tuesday, blamed the crew of the Venus for the crash.

The video was captioned in Spanish and criticised the other yacht’s crew for how they operated the superyacht.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission

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SYDNEY (AP) — Two people were rescued unharmed Tuesday after spending a night aboard a disabled yacht in heavy seas off the Australian coast.

The 60-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman were rescued at 7:30 a.m. from their 19-meter (62-foot) yacht, which was abandoned 300 kilometers (185 miles) east of the New South Wales state coast, Police Chief Inspector Anthony Brazzill said. The pair were expected to reach Sydney aboard a police boat Tuesday night.

The pair had activated their emergency beacon around 1 p.m. Monday, about 185 kilometers (115 miles) east of the New South Wales coastal town of Nowra, police said.

The yacht, “Spirit of Mateship,” had experienced a mechanical failure, lost a rudder, was taking water and was drifting east away from the shore, Brazzill said. With an ocean swell of 5 to 6 meters (16 to 20 feet) and winds of up 110 kilometers (70 miles) per hour, he said, conditions were considered too dangerous to attempt a rescue in the dark.

An air force C-130 Hercules transport plane flew to the yacht and made radio contact with the two people onboard. A police boat and an Australian navy warship reached the yacht early Tuesday.

Brazzill said a winching rescue by military helicopter was considered, but ruled out as too dangerous because of the sea conditions.

The pair were rescued in a small craft launched from the police boat, he said.

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Boar’s Head Plant Tied to 9 Deaths Had Mold, Leaky Pipes and Flies

Federal inspectors cited continuing problems at a deli meat plant in Virginia that was linked to an outbreak of listeria, records indicate.

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Federal meat inspectors documented black mold, water dripping over meat and dead flies at a Virginia Boar’s Head deli meat plant that has now been linked to nine deaths from listeria, according to records.

Over the course of a year, food safety inspectors, who are a constant presence in meat facilities across the United States, noted escalating problems at the plant.

Under U.S. Department of Agriculture rules, the processing facility, in rural Virginia, was expected to swab for listeria, which the agency considers a “zero tolerance” concern that can spur an immediate recall. Yet the inspectors — who also swab and test for listeria, a lethal bacteria — do not appear to have been the first to prompt a recall of more than seven million pounds of ham, salami, hot dogs and other meats by Boar’s Head.

The alarm rang after people like Günter Morgenstein, a hair stylist renowned in coastal Virginia, fell gravely ill. As Mr. Morgenstein, an active 88-year-old known as Garshon, grew frail in the hospital in early July, his family racked their brains to think of everything he had eaten in recent weeks.

As listeria illnesses spread, a disease detective in Maryland began to suspect liverwurst as the common thread, given the older age of the hospitalized patients. Her hunch proved correct: Whole genome sequencing matched the patients’ bacteria to Boar’s Head liverwurst bought at a store, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, setting off the recall of 3,500 tons of meat.

At the same time, U.S.D.A. inspectors documented flies, bits of meat on food-contact surfaces and mold on a wall at the Boar’s Head plant in Jarratt, Va. From June 2023 through this August, inspectors listed 84 problems at the facility. Listeria was not mentioned in more 80 pages of inspection records on the plant that were released by the agency.

“Clearly there’s a breakdown in the process when you have a zero-tolerance policy but you still see listeria and deaths as well,” said Brian Ronholm, who is the director of food policy for Consumer Reports, a watchdog group, and a former food safety official at the U.S.D.A. Under the policy, ready-to-eat food discovered by a company or the U.S.D.A. to be contaminated with listeria is to be destroyed and recalled.

A spokeswoman for the Agriculture Department said that the Virginia facility has been closed until it “is able to demonstrate it can produce safe product.”

The spokeswoman said that Boar’s Head had corrected problems at the plant that were cited by inspectors. The U.S.D.A. said the facility was inspected by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, which did not respond to requests for comment.

Liverwurst from the Jarratt Boar’s Head plant was first recalled on July 25, and then the company expanded the recall on July 29 to include all the meat processed there.

In an email, a spokeswoman said the company leaders “deeply regret” the impact the outbreak has had on the families of those affected and on its customers. The company provided a full list of the more than 50 meats that were recalled, but emphasized that listeria had been found on only liverwurst samples connected to the Jarratt plant.

Boar’s Head said it was working with top food safety experts to determine the cause of the problem, which it said was “limited to a single process” at the plant in Virginia, one of several the company operates.

On Thursday, a company spokeswoman said: “We want to assure consumers that no product will be released from this facility until it meets the highest quality and safety standards that you deserve and expect.”

The C.D.C. said 57 people, ranging in age from 32 to 95, had been hospitalized, but added that many more likely became ill and had recovered without testing for listeria. The nine people who died were all older than 70, according to the agency.

Health experts have expressed concerns that consumers may still have recalled products, some of which do not expire before October, in their refrigerators. And they advised consumers and retailers to clean surfaces where the deli meats had contact, because listeria can linger stubbornly on counters, deli slicers and other places and is not killed by refrigeration.

Some people also may not experience symptoms, which can include vomiting and diarrhea, until weeks after they’ve consumed contaminated products.

Food safety experts who reviewed the inspection reports said that they were troubling, given the repeated nature of problems, including dripping or standing water that can foster an environment where listeria bacteria thrive.

In October 2023, an inspector noted plastic wrapped around an overhead pipe outside a cooler with “orange/brown water” pooled in the lowest hanging point. “The establishment typically does this for temporary fixes,” the inspection report said.

In February, an inspector noted “ample amounts of blood in puddles on the floor" and “a rancid smell in the cooler.” In June, 15 to 20 flies were seen going in and out of vats of pickles.

“Considering there’s continuous inspection, it’s a real mystery why it ever got so bad before it got to this,” said Neal Fortin, the director of the Institute for Food Laws & Regulations at Michigan State University.

Concern about listeria has been so high that the U.S.D.A. has devised rules specifically aimed at limiting spread of the lethal pathogen in ready-to-eat food, such as deli meat.

In a guideline in 2012, the U.S.D.A. said about 1,500 hospitalizations and 250 deaths each year were linked to listeria. The bacteria is particularly deadly to people who are very young, older than 65 or pregnant, according to the C.D.C.

Past outbreaks have been severe and led to some criminal prosecution. Thirty-three people died in a listeria outbreak in 2011 tied to cantaloupe, one of the deadliest outbreaks in recent history. Two cantaloupe farmers were sentenced to five years’ probation for their involvement in the case.

Blue Bell Creameries paid $17.25 million in criminal penalties after a 2015 listeria outbreak linked to its contaminated ice cream killed three people. Blue Bell’s former chief executive pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge and paid a $100,000 fine.

Mr. Fortin said the U.S.D.A. listeria rules allow food companies to choose one of three methods to control listeria. Records from the department show that the Virginia Boar’s Head plant relied on a system based on keeping a sanitary plant and routine testing to monitor for the bacteria. Other options include taking measures to kill listeria or prevent it from growing on the meat.

The option Boar’s Head used in Virginia “is the least reliable and it’s the hardest to do,” Mr. Fortin said. “I won’t buy lunch meat from anyone who uses” that method.

The Virginia facility was required to do environmental testing, Mr. Fortin said, which could mean swabbing drains, walls, floors or food-cutting surfaces. If listeria is found, companies are expected to sanitize thoroughly and then test the finished product to ensure it is free of bacteria.

Any discovery of listeria in food is a serious matter, Mr. Fortin said, leading to an immediate recall. Generally, though, he said facilities have no day-to-day duty to test products.

Exactly how the Virginia facility carried out its listeria safety plan — or whether it had turned up any positive swabs — remains unclear. The U.S.D.A. did not respond to specific questions about testing for listeria.

Spreadsheets posted on the department’s website that list listeria test results of thousands of samples taken by officials at many facilities showed negative results at the Boar’s Head Virginia plant in January 2016 and in September 2021. The facility is not listed on a summary of test results released in 2024.

Mr. Morgenstein’s family said he was fond of Boar’s Head liverwurst as a comfort food eaten on a plain bagel. It reminded him of his childhood in Germany, which he fled as a child to escape Nazi rule. A receipt from Harris Teeter provided by Ron Simon, his family’s lawyer, shows he made the purchase on June 30.

“Garshon’s three favorite things were honey ham, lox and liverwurst,” his wife, Peggy Morgenstein, said. Even at 88, he was still cutting customers’ hair three days a week.

Over the course of his 10-day hospital stay, Mr. Morgenstein weakened and became feverish. As the bacteria reached his brain, he grew uncharacteristically irritable, his wife said. Hospital staff had to put mittens on him to keep him from pulling at his tubes. Then he fell quiet.

Mr. Morgenstein died on July 18 of listeria-related brain swelling, his death certificate shows. Had there been a warning about the recall, Ms. Morgenstein said her family would have known.

“My husband and I are news freaks,” she said. “We certainly wouldn’t have bought it if we had seen that .”

In the week after Mr. Morgenstein died, epidemiologists in Maryland began noticing that the people who had fallen ill with listeria in their state all skewed older; they were, on average, 76.

Health officials suspected that the meat to blame might be popular among older generations, said Dr. Sinisa Urban, head of the environmental sciences division at the Maryland Department of Health.

On July 18, the local investigators bought a package of Boar’s Head liverwurst from a major grocery chain in Baltimore and, in a turn of luck that Dr. Urban believes probably saved lives, the first package of liverwurst tested positive for the bacteria when definitive results arrived a week later.

“This is a very rare instance where things lined up very, very quickly ,” he said. “It’s like finding a needle in a haystack.”

Given the seriousness of the outbreak, more answers are needed, and are expected to emerge in the coming weeks, said James Dickson, a food safety expert at Iowa State University.

“It doesn’t help the people who got sick, it doesn’t help the people who died,” he said. “But hopefully down the road we learn something from this so it doesn’t happen again.”

Teddy Rosenbluth is a health reporter and a member of the 2024-25 Times Fellowship class, a program for journalists early in their careers. More about Teddy Rosenbluth

Christina Jewett covers the Food and Drug Administration, which means keeping a close eye on drugs, medical devices, food safety and tobacco policy. More about Christina Jewett

Food Safety Issues and How to Avoid Them

Listeria:  A listeria outbreak has been linked to Boar’s Head deli meats, leading to a recall of seven million pounds of the company’s products. Here’s what to know.

Refreezing Food: Shuttling dishes and ingredients from fridge to freezer and back again can be totally fine, as long as you follow these guidelines .

E. Coli: The bacteria, which has recently been found in ground beef and walnuts, sickens an estimated 265,000 Americans each year .

Norovirus: The virus is extremely contagious, and, as anyone who has had it can tell you, extremely unpleasant .

Salmonella: People often get sick with salmonellosis, the infection caused by the bacteria, after eating undercooked meat or other contaminated foods .

Expiration Dates: When is the right time to throw something out? J. Kenji López-Alt explains why many pantry items remain safe well past their expiration dates .