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How a superyacht is supporting ocean conservation and a marine sanctuary in the Dominican Republic

When a key marine sanctuary in the Dominican Republic was being expanded, Alexei Mikhailov of Bering Yachts and Max Bello of Mission Blue formed the perfect partnership. Bello will be appearing at the Explorer Yachts Summit on 13 November at the Yacht Club de Monaco to chat more about the project .

Max Bello, an international ocean policy expert, was working with Dominican Republic politician Jorge Mera to help the country expand its marine protected area and was expecting a call from the minister when a colleague delivered the most shocking news. Mera had been murdered by a childhood friend, allegedly for refusing to grant him environmental permits.

“He was passionate about the importance of protecting the environment and wouldn’t make exceptions for anyone,” Bello, of marine action group Mission Blue, says. “It was so sad.”

Jorge Mera’s death sent shockwaves through the Caribbean nation, where attacks on politicians are rare – but if the crime was intended to derail the country’s commitment to ocean conservation, it had the opposite effect.

In April, the Dominican Republic announced the expansion of its marine protected area (MPA), part of a commitment to the global 30x30 initiative to conserve 30 per cent of land and sea for biodiversity by 2030 – the only difference being that the DR, determined to press on in Mera’s memory, was doing it six years before anyone else in the region.

The new marine sanctuaries are the Beata Ridge, a massive underwater mountain range rich in flora and fauna south of the island of Hispaniola, and Silver Bank, a remote area in the north which is home to the largest humpback whale breeding area in the world. Already designated an MPA (boats need permits to visit the area and numbers are severely restricted), Silver Bank is now being expanded.

As preparations ramped up before the announcement, Bello led a team of seven scientists, including representatives from the Blue Marine Foundation, SeaLegacy and Blue Nature Alliance, to the Silver Bank area to research and gather footage. As far as expeditions go, this was a routine research and fact-finding trip, bar one small difference: the scientists would be travelling there by superyacht. Listen to the B ig BOAT Interview podcast below to hear more about the expedition.

The man behind the yacht was Alexei Mikhailov, founder of Bering Yachts , a US-headquartered shipyard specialising in full-displacement steel exploration yachts. He hosted Bello’s team for a four-day expedition on the full-custom 29-metre Bering B92 Papillon , on loan from the Bering Charter programme.

Born in north-eastern Siberia, Mikhailov has steadily built a name for safe, sturdy and long-range explorers which, he says, “have a capability to go to areas where other boats cannot reach”. Heavy displacement boats such as Papillon are perfect for an expedition like this – “For long-range vessels, weight is your ally,” he says – but despite her explorer looks, there is no doubt that Papillon is a luxury yacht underneath.

“Compared to our usual external design, Papillon looks more yachty,” Mikhailov says. “Some might even think she is made from fibreglass. However, with her steel hull and aluminium superstructure, she’s a rugged explorer.”

And Papillon proved her mettle. Conditions were not perfect – four-metre waves and 25-knot winds for the multi-day trip to Silver Bank. “When you’re in remote locations the forecasts are not that reliable; you often cannot predict the weather,” Mikhailov says. But the project had so many stakeholders involved, with people flying in from different locations, “there was no way to postpone it or reschedule”.

It’s not every day a superyacht gets involved in such a key scientific project, but Mikhailov likes to think out of the box. He and his crew were in Silver Bank for a reconnaissance trip. He has noticed that some of his customers find it difficult to find the right crew or to decide where to travel, and Bering Yachts aims to go further than just offering technical solutions.

“We want to provide easy ownership by not only managing and maintaining our boats, but bringing purpose to the boat so that a Bering yacht is in operation most times of the year and the owner can enjoy it,” Mikhailov says.

He came across Yachts For Science, an organisation (of which BOAT International is a founding partner) that connects yacht owners and crew with marine scientists, researchers and content creators. Collaborations can open new horizons for yacht owners who want to get off the beaten track. Mikhailov thought it could also offer an exciting, meaningful, even educational, twist to charter itineraries for Bering Charter, the shipyard’s recently launched programme.

“Even before we found Yachts For Science we’d been thinking about changing our way of chartering our boats,” he says. “It’s easier for people to make a decision when they can charter a room on a boat – so we’ve introduced that as a service. Then if you can give your charter a schedule and a purpose it’s even more attractive.”

However, it wasn’t all work and no play for the Bering team. While Mikhailov was talking to me from the boat, he was also enjoying the wildlife spectacle: “I’m looking right now at a dancing whale just a few hundred metres away… it’s incredible. It’s such a unique place to be. Very few boats have permits to go there and the area is protected, so I am really fortunate to be here. It’s not your average whale-watching trip where you maybe see one or two – it’s a non-stop show.”

For Bello, Silver Bank had long been on his bucket list. “It’s a shallow area in the middle of the ocean,” he says. “You travel for a day on a vessel and then there’s this area, about 10 to 20 metres deep, with very calm waters and clusters of coral that have been growing for millennia.”

The shallow waters are a safe place for majestic humpback whales to mate, give birth and raise their calves before taking a trip more than 3,000 kilometres north to their feeding grounds. Every year from January to April as many as 3,000 whales are thought to gather. The team analysed the water for traces of environmental DNA, which could tell them which species had passed through the area. They also spent time gathering footage and photos of the wildlife they saw.

“We want to show not only to the Dominican Republic people, but also to the world, what is in our seas that needs to be better protected,” Bello says.

For Mikhailov, the trip was an enlightening experience. “A marine biologist explained to us about the whales’ behaviours and whose voices we’re hearing. I’ve learnt that they’re such gentle creatures who can feel you; you can be a few centimetres from them and even though they’re 100 times bigger than you, they won’t harm you. Even the babies are careful around humans.”

He is determined to cement his relationship with Yachts For Science so that he can deepen his charter offering and help owners to have enriched adventures on his yachts. “You know, it’s just the chance to learn incredible, very condensed information from top scientists and film-makers. This is priceless; a totally memorable way to charter.”

Bello is grateful to Bering Yachts and Yachts For Science for helping get the project off the ground. “Missions like these are extremely expensive, extremely complicated and to have this platform that actually supports this, it’s just incredible,” he adds.

While it has been a resounding success, for Bello the expedition also had a bittersweet note, with Jorge Mera never far from his thoughts. But the minister’s contribution to the marine environment won’t be forgotten: the government has renamed the Beata Ridge the Orlando Jorge Mera Beata Ridge in his honour.

“I think he would be proud of what we have achieved,” Bello says.

The goal of Yachts For Science is to bring together yacht owners and crew with marine scientists, researchers and content creators and to provide access to the oceans.Visit yachtsforscience.com to find out more about the current projects in need of support.

Meet Bello at The Explorer Yachts Summit, taking place on 13 November 2024 at the Yacht Club de Monaco. Tickets are available now. 

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Bering Yachts Showcases Exploration

• By Yachting Staff
• July 19, 2024

Expedition yachts get used for all kinds of adventures, by owners who dream of seeing remote parts of the world and of cruising in destinations where few other humans have ever stepped foot. In the case of the Bering 92 Papillon , the idea was to undertake adventurous cruising with a purpose.

Alexei Mikhailov, founder of Bering Yachts , has established partnerships with organizations dedicated to marine conservation. In the Caribbean, they include Yachts for Science and Mission Blue, which involves marine research. Supported by the Government of the Dominican Republic, these organizations conduct research in Silver Bank, a protected breeding and calving area for the North Atlantic humpback whale.

This year, Papillon served as the research base, offering a safe, comfortable and stable platform for researchers and videographers to do their work and document it.

The project marked Bering Yachts’ first involvement in a marine life preservation initiative to give explorer-type yacht ownership a meaningful purpose.

For five days, 13 people from nine nations were aboard Papillon . They engaged in scientific discussions; swam with whales; filmed, photographed and identified individual whales; and collected DNA samples.

Mikhailov participated in the entire expedition. He returned with profound memories and a renewed commitment to continue these activities, according to a press release issued by Bering Yachts .

“The Silver Bank expedition will be the first of many, with plans for future collaborations spanning from the Mediterranean to the Antarctic,” according to the press release. “Several Bering yacht owners have already expressed interest in participating in upcoming projects.”

What makes Bering’s yachts good for research projects? According to the shipyard, key elements include minimal noise and vibration pollution, reduced fuel consumption and alternative energy solutions.

Where to learn more: go to beringyachts.com

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More bang for your boat: interview with ceo, alexei mikhailov.

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• June 10, 2024

In 2007, Alexei Mikhailov decided to build a boat. When he finished the boat, he sold it. Then he made another one, and suddenly he realised he had a business. Back then, it was not a large business. Just Mikhailov and three to four other people. In 2013 Mikhailov moved the business to Turkey, where it expanded. Following a steep uptick in demand after the COVID-19 pandemic, the company grew to the point where today the firm has 15 boats under construction at a time.

“We are extremely busy right now,” Mikhailov says simply.

The reason Bering Yachts are so in demand is their rare specialism in the industry . The company focuses on building vessels under 24 metres in length but built from steel and aluminium rather than fibreglass. Despite their size, they are certified for commercial charter, with virtually unrestricted navigation capabilities.

“It is a unique niche that gives you the same capability as a superyacht range-wise, in the region of six to seven thousand miles,” Mikhailov explains. “You can legally charter them through numerous jurisdictions, and they will support the level of safety offered by commercial craft with no compromises on fire safety, stability, submersibility or any of the other important aspects of safe navigation.”

Ultimately, what Bering Yachts offers is a small boat with the same complexity and comfort levels as a 50-metre yacht.

“All of our boats feel like superyachts, for one simple reason,” Mikhailov says. “It is dictated by the class of superyachts, the world-class manner of their construction, but at a smaller boat scale. We achieve the same vibration and noise readings, and the motion is very similar to that of a ship rather than a smaller Styrofoam boat.”

The majority of boats under 24 metres in length are made from fibreglass, weighing from 400 to 600 kilos. Bering Yachts, while they might appear comparable in length, are different by every other measure, and for good reason.

“We don’t put ballast in there,” Mikhailov says. “It’s about structure strength, equipment, tanks. We use all of that weight, and it translates into sea-kindness, lower acceleration, and inertia which gives you a perception of comfort. Our boats are as comfortable as the best superyachts, and can go anywhere on the planet where boats can go.”

Bering Yachts also offers high-quality aftersales care, including crew management and maintenance.

The tricky part, Mikhailov points out, is demonstrating that key difference to customers comparing Bering’s vessels with others of the same length.

“For some reason, a lot of people judge a boat by only one dimension, its LOA [Length Overall]. But we are talking about a three-dimensional creature,” Mikhailov argues. “Comparing our boats to the equivalent fibreglass vessels is like comparing apples and oranges. They have different volumes, different displacement levels, different fuel consumption and range, it does not even compare when you get into the specifications.”

When customers only look at the LOA, often the next number they look at is the price, and Bering Yachts cannot compete on that front because it is effectively selling three times the amount of product in the same space.

Bering Yachts has invested heavily in marketing, through educational videos and short films on the construction focus of the boats, to demonstrate just what Bering Yachts are – luxury vessels in a more compact space.

“We share the information about how we build the boats, how they are different, why they are heavy, and why that weight is your ally,” Mikhailov tells us.

While Bering has always focused on smaller boats, it is not restricted to them, and when we speak with Mikhailov the company is working on a project to build a 225-foot-long vessel. But this is not the only way that Bering is expanding.

Unfurling the Business

Since 2014, Bering Yachts has made its home in the Antalya Free Zone, an estate dedicated to boat building. It is a limited area consisting of one square kilometre of shops and production facilities where Bering occupies nine sheds. But as word has spread about Bering Yachts, so must the business.

“We ran out of space here, so we are fabricating hulls at facilities in Istanbul and Bulgaria for European customers because it is easier for them to travel and it is useful to work in the same regulatory jurisdiction,” Mikhailov says.

To staff these new locations and bring recruits up to the necessary level of skill and qualification, Bering has established education programs to train people on the shop floor and in its offices. Bering’s expansion also means a need to seek out skilled specialists.

“Our boats are class certified, so we cannot just hire any welder off the street,” Mikhailov says. “They need credentials that must be reestablished every year. It is skilled labour.”

Skilled labour means more expensive labour, and at the same time, material costs have been rising across the board. However, as Mikhailov points out, those rising costs also make a Bering Yacht a wise investment.

“These boats last indefinitely with good care, and no Bering has been sold for less than it was bought,” Mikhailov says. “The value of steel boats naturally rises alongside inflation and the cost of raw materials needed to build a new vessel.”

This is not the only way Mikhailov sees Bering’s vessels as a sound investment, however.

“ I spoke to a customer looking to buy a Bering 72 yesterday, and he told me why he was looking,” Mikhailov tells me. “He said that the world is going through some dark times. He wanted to have a safe and secure mobile real estate, a place that provides more comfort and safety. In this new world, we don’t know when and where the next conflict will emerge because they are not developing in natural ways. It is going to be an interesting ten years, and the Bering is a safe haven. It is self-sufficient. You can be out on the water for an indefinite period of time. You can fuel once a year, cross any body of water, be at any quarter of the planet at your discretion.”

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The video gives you a comprehensive overview of the spacious areas of the yacht, including the cockpit, the noiseless engine room ventilation, the stylish foredeck and the modern kitchen. Alexei Mikhailov also shows the eco-friendly zero waste solutions, the well-equipped engine room, the practical lazarette and the gorgeous helm station.

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Targeting super yachts owned by Russian oligarchs could hit a nerve in Moscow

Poor transparency around ownership of assets can cause challenges, experts say.

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With sanctions levied and financial assets seized, Russian oligarchs have been scrambling to get their super yachts out of Western ports in search of safer harbours. 

One yacht, said to belong to Russian President Vladimir Putin himself, abruptly left port in Hamburg, Germany, just weeks before the Russian invasion of Ukraine prompted wide-reaching sanctions. Others were not so quick to leave European ports. 

Authorities in La Ciotat, on France's Mediterranean coast, seized a yacht they say is linked to sanctioned Russian oligarch Igor Sechin, the CEO of state oil company Rosneft. He was Russia's deputy prime minister from 2008 to 2012.

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Industry watchers say oligarchs everywhere are trying to keep their yachts from being taken.

​​"There's a few yachts that we are watching at the moment in the Atlantic," said Sam Tucker, head of super yachts at the firm VesselsValue, which tracks and estimates the value of these giant luxury yachts. 

"I'm expecting some of them to start doing U-turns in the middle of the ocean," he told CBC Radio's Day 6 .

Western countries have imposed a punishing package of sanctions and export control restrictions on Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Russia's biggest banks were hit, as was the country's central bank. Major state-owned companies and some of the country's wealthiest individuals have seen overseas assets frozen.

The investment bank JP Morgan Chase believes Russia's economy will shrink 35 per cent in the second quarter of 2022 and seven per cent for the entire year.

White House spokesperson Jen Psaki says the suite of sanctions is meant to make every aspect of life difficult on Putin and the oligarchs who protect him.

"What we're talking about here is seizing their assets, seizing their yachts and making it harder for them to send their children to go to colleges and universities in the West," Psaki said in a briefing this week. "These are significant steps that will impact the people who are closely around President Putin."

<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Putin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Putin</a>´s Yacht "The Gracefull" inbound Kaliningrad from Hamburg in anticipation of future sanctions due to the conflict in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ukraine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Ukraine</a>. <a href="https://t.co/qdhAUhCH1m">pic.twitter.com/qdhAUhCH1m</a> &mdash; @GDarkconrad

Symbolic target

The yachts themselves are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but experts in Russian sanctions say this isn't just about the dollar value.

"They don't have much value compared to the total net worth of an oligarch," said Bill Browder, a long-time advocate for stiff sanctions against Russian oligarchs, in an email to CBC Radio. 

But they are "a highly symbolic attack on something coveted by the oligarchs."

These ultra-luxurious ships became a status symbol for the oligarchs as they amassed fortunes in the 1990s and early 2000s.

"There is a bit of oneupmanship," Tucker told Day 6 . He says the biggest and most expensive ships are cloaked in secrecy. They have extreme privacy and security features, including bulletproof glass, and some require crew to sign non-disclosure agreements.

But Tucker says the biggest security and privacy feature of all is the opaque ownership structure of the yachts. He says precious little information about who actually owns these ships is available.

"[Only] basic information is disclosed — for example, the registered owner — which is often a shell company or a 'special interest vehicle' registered in Monaco, Malta, [or the] Cayman Islands," he said.

Untying those knots is a notorious problem, but one usually confined to taxation issues.

"One thing that I think may come out of this whole situation is the increased call for transparency and transparent ownership," said Tucker.

Yachts on the move

So far, only four super yachts have been seized, including a 213-foot yacht owned by Alexei Mordashov in Imperia, Italy.

While authorities sift through the byzantine paper trail of ownership, other oligarchs have scrambled their crews to get the yachts to somewhere safe.

"One of the things I've been trying to figure out is, where do they go [next]?" asked Alex Finley, a former CIA officer living in Barcelona, in an interview with  As It Happens host Gillian Findlay .

This week, Finley tweeted photos tracking a ship said to be owned by Roman Abramovich, the Russian billionaire who owns the Chelsea Football Club.

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"A lot of these yachts that we've been looking at are heading towards the Maldives or the Seychelles. A few are in Montenegro, but they look like they're probably going to be on the move," Finley said in the interview .

Here you can see the sterns of both Aurora and Valerie, and in the other pic, the empty slip where Solaris used to be (which is the size of the empty hole in my heart). 7/ <a href="https://t.co/Luvj5vyWXp">pic.twitter.com/Luvj5vyWXp</a> &mdash; @alexzfinley

Neither the Maldives nor the Seychelles signed onto the sanctions, so the ships are probably safe from seizure there. Another major hub is Dubai.

"I think we're going to see Dubai as a big hotspot for these yachts," said Tucker. "It has hot weather all year round and … Russians can fly to Dubai without going through the EU airspace."

Tucker agrees that targeting the yachts is a symbolic move.

"It's really sending the message that they aren't untouchable. We've closed the skies on both sides of the Atlantic so their private jets can't operate, and now we're going after their super yachts," he said.

"I'd be feeling quite vulnerable if I was an oligarch right now."

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Ukrainian intelligence claims Russian colonel killed in special op

U krainian intelligence reported that on Friday, in the city of Kolomna in the Moscow region, Russian Army Colonel Alexei Kolomeytsev was killed. He headed the center of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for unmanned aviation.

On September 27, in the city of Kolomna in the Moscow region of the Russian Federation, Colonel of the Russian occupation army Alexei Vladimirovich Kolomeytsev was killed, reported the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR) on Saturday.

"51-year-old Kolomeytsev headed the state center 924 (military unit 20924) of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for unmanned aviation, which also trains specialists in the combat use of unmanned aerial vehicles, particularly 'Shaheds'," it was added.

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Ukrainian intelligence added that he was "directly involved in the full-scale invasion of Russia and the commission of war crimes in Ukraine."

GUR, in a post on social media, also published a photo of a supposedly dead man whose face was blurred.

"The elimination of Kolomeytsev was the result of a special operation carried out by the local resistance movement against the Kremlin regime in cooperation with the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine," reported the Ukrainian portal Focus.

Details of the Russian colonel's death were not provided.

"The resistance movement is increasing its scale, expanding its activities across Russia and beyond. As we warned earlier, our target is every Russian war criminal, all involved in the aggression against Ukraine, regardless of position, age, gender, and location," commented an anonymous informant to the Focus portal.

The independent Belarusian portal Radio Svoboda notes that the reports of the Russian military officer's death cannot be confirmed based on independent sources. "The Russian Ministry of Defense and other departments did not comment on this news, and Russian war bloggers did not write about the alleged death of Kolomeytsev," commented the portal.

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