A 63 meter super yacht, motor yacht Utopia IV collided with and sank a 49 meter gas tanker, motor vessel Tropic Breeze approximately fifteen miles to the North West of New Providence Island in the Bahamas on 24th December at around 2200 hours. Utopia IV was in charter duty and is reported to have hit and pierced Tropic Breeze at the stern. The seven crew members of Tropic Breeze where rescued by motor yacht Amara who happened to be in the vicinity of the collision. With the impact Utopia IV sustained bow damage and was reported taking on water, and following this was escorted by the Harbour Patrol Unit to Prince George Wharf in Nassau harbour.
Utopia IV is a 63 meter fully custom 2018 built Rossinavi, hull number FR031 build in aluminium to a design by Enrico Gobbi TeamForDesign and naval architecture by Arrabito. Rossinavi FR031 m/y Utopia IV is a multi award winning super yacht for its design and engineering feats.
The super yacht Amara which rescued the seven crew of the 49 meter tanker, is a 1986 55.1 meter Feadship hull number #634 built of steel with an aluminium super structure, and designed by Frits de Voogt naval architecture and exterior, and Mauro Micheli who did the latest refit to the interior, which was originally designed by Terrence Disdale. Amara was launched as M/Y Cacique.
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