Dolce Vento, a brand new yacht worth nearly $1 million, sank just 15 minutes after its maiden voyage in northern Turkey as panicked crew and passengers jumped overboard.
The incident happened off the coast of northern Turkey’s Zonguldak’s Eregli district, earlier this week.
Dramatic video shows the vessel, the Dolce Vento, easing into the water off the coast of Zonguldak in northern Turkey’s Eregli district on Tuesday before lurching to one side and slowly sinking into the depths.
It was the first time the approximately 85-foot boat, worth around $940,000, was launched after being delivered to its owner from Istanbul.
The owner, captain, and two crew members jumped overboard and swam to shore without injury, and the coast guard and port teams responded to set up a security perimeter around the foundering watercraft.
Officials at the shipyard said the cause of the sinking was under investigation, and that technical inspections of the yacht will be carried out to determine what happened.
