- The superyacht was owned by Getir entrepreneur Serkan Borancili
- Footage exhibits the yacht sinking whereas it’s being doused in extinguisher
That is the dramatic second a £14m superyacht caught fireplace and sunk off the coast of Sardinia.
Sixteen passengers and crew miraculously escaped from the Atina earlier than it was utterly engulfed in flames on Saturday night while it was moored within the Gulf of Olbia.
The vacationers, who had been from Turkey, had been collected by firefighters and coastguards. There have been no reported accidents.
Amongst these on board is believed to be Serkan Borancili, who owned the 47-m-long vessel.
The Turkish entrepreneur co-founded the troubled grocery supply app Getir in 2015, which was lately pressured to exit each the European and US markets after a speedy enlargement.
That is the dramatic second a £14m superyacht owned by the founding father of troubled grocery app Getir caught fireplace and sunk off the coast of Sardinia
Sixteen passengers and crew escaped from the Atina earlier than it was utterly engulfed in flames on Saturday night while it was moored within the Gulf of Olbia
The vacationers, who had been from Turkey, had been collected by firefighters and coastguards and there have been no reported accidents
Footage launched by the Olbia Coast Guard exhibits the multi-million-pound yacht sinking whereas being doused with an extinguisher within the port that has been dubbed ‘Billionaire’s Playground’.
It ended up on the seabed about 7m deep and native media has mentioned that clean-up operations are at the moment underway.
The yacht was carrying round 50,000 litres of gasoline however the Olbia Port Authority mentioned no spills had been detected.
The hearth is believed to have begun within the superyacht’s engine compartment however the reason for the blaze is at the moment being investigated.
The Atina was offered in 2021 for greater than £14million and it gained an award on the World Superyacht Awards in 2009.
It underwent an eight-month-long revamp when it was purchased three years in the past with the highest deck utterly redesigned.
The yacht was full with 5 cabins, lounge areas and an leisure system put in all through.
The Atina was priced at €220,000 per week and operated in Corsica and the French Riviera, in keeping with BOAT worldwide.
Pictured: Serkan Borancili who co-founded the troubled grocery app Getir
Footage from the Olbia Coast Guard exhibits the yacht sinking whereas being doused with an extinguisher
Borancili co-founded Getir with Nazim Salur in 2015 and the corporate thrived throughout lockdown.
The enterprise was as soon as valued at £9.5 billion and has hyperlinks to 2 Russian oligarchs, Vladimir Potanin and Arkady Volozh.
Earlier this 12 months, Getir introduced it’ll go away the UK, with an estimated 1,500 jobs to be misplaced.
The agency may even go away Europe and the US to focus solely on its house market in Turkey, bringing an finish to its speedy enlargement throughout the areas because the pandemic.
The announcement got here after hypothesis that Getir’s UK and European operations had been struggling financially, following its choice to drag out of Italy and Spain final 12 months.
It mentioned it now solely makes about 7 per cent of its income exterior of Turkey.