Super Yacht Burns and Sinks Near Santa Maria di Leuca

A super yacht titled m/y Naseem of 26 meter in length burned down and eventually sank on the early morning of Saturday thirteenth May in the South Adriatic sea.  The super yacht with three crew was leaving Santa Maria di Leuca in the early hours of the morning direction to Montenegro when a fire started out in the engine room five nautical miles in the trip and away from the coast.  The female captain immediately called the  MayDay and reported the fire to the Italian Coast Guard deploying two fire fighting boats one from Lecce, and another from Taranto to save the crew and control the fire.  With the three crew saved, the fire fighting crew tried to extinguish the fire, with no success and the yacht sinking at about 0400 hours in the South Adriatic sea. 

M/y Naseem is a 2009 Dominator 860 as designed by Nuvolari Lenard and produced from 2004 to 2009 in seven units.  The Dominator 860 was an evolution of the Mochi Craft 25 Mega produced in the late nineties.  Dominator was born from the remains of the 1960 founded Mochi Craft which closed down to bankruptcy in 1999.