A nineteen meter Sunseeker sport yacht with twelve persons onboard ended aground at about 02:00 hours of Thursday seventeen August, in Ilha Deserta located to the West of Faro Olhao in Portugal. The passengers where assisted by the Portugal Maritime police, and a sixteen meter sport yacht which was traveling with the grounded super yacht. All the persons where uninjured in this grounding collision. The sport yacht was removed from Ilha Deserta a couple days later, with the help of a dagger and a tug boat, and then towed to Villamoura for repairs. An unsuccessful attempt was made to tow the yacht away on the same evening by the other yacht, luckily not succeeding considering the minimum of damage to the propellers and rudders does create a hull breach and would have probably sunk the yacht.
The Sunseeker in this grounding is the Predator 62 as produced from 2005 to 2008 and selling in about fifty units. The Predator 62 was a replacement to the Sunseeker Predator 68 and was replaced by the Predator 64, this using using the same hull but featuring a different super structure and layout.
The assisting sixteen meter sport yacht is a Pershing 52 as designed by Fulvio de Simoni and produced from 2000 to 2004. The Pershing 52 came out as a replacement to the 54, and was replaced by the 50.
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