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ECSTASEA Yacht – Dreamy $120M Superyacht

ECSTASEA yacht is a $75 Million superyacht built in 2004.

Her annual running costs are approximately ten to twenty million dollars per year. This gorgeous vessel can comfortably accommodate 14 guests with a crew of 24 on hand to cater to their needs.

ECSTASEA yacht interior

ECSTASEA’s interior was designed by Terence Disdale and his team. The yacht was most recently refit in 2011, suggesting she might be redone again soon. ECSTASEA can welcome fourteen guests in seven spacious cabins.

She has a massage room, a gym, a sauna, several indoor and outdoor bars and even a steam room.

Twenty-four crew members find space on board to help cater to the needs of guests onboard.

ECSTASEA yacht specifications

The ECSTASEA yacht was built in the Netherlands by the renowned yacht shipyard Feadship in De Kaag.

In 2004 she was the largest ever yacht built by Feadship, although she has since lost that title to the superyacht ANNA.

She has a total length of 85.95 meters (282 ft), a beam of 11.85 meters (38.11 ft), and a draft of 3.8 meters (12.6 ft).

Her gross tonnage is 2,107 tons. ECSTASEA is one of the fastest yachts in her size category and can reach incredible top speeds of 33 knots.

She cruises comfortably at an average speed of 14 knots. She is powered by four MTU engines as well as a gas turbine.

ECSTASEA exterior

Much like her interior, the exterior of ECSTASEA was designed by ​​Terence Disdale, who is based in the UK.

He started his career with no formal design training and now owns one of the most well-respected studios in the industry.

ECSTASEA is all white with a large helipad on the forward deck and even a small aircraft hangar.

She carries several tenders, including a 9.5 meter (31.1 ft) Vikal Limousine. The superyacht has a beautiful sundeck aft with a spacious seating area for guests.

The ECSTASEA yacht is known for carrying an impressive selection of water toys on board, including inflatables, jet skis, wakeboards, sea bobs, and even mountain bikes.

ECSTASEA price

ECSTASEA originally cost an estimated US $125 million, although she reportedly only listed for a price of US $75 million when the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi sold her to the owner in 2014. She generates an estimated US $10 to 15 million in running costs every ear.

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M/Y Ecstasea is one the fastest superyachts in the world

Built by Dutch yard Feadship , M/Y Ecstasea is one of the fastest superyachts in the world.

She is unconventional and remarkable. Her initial owner wanted a fast yacht. Very fast. And Feadship delivered. Ecstasea can reach a top speed of 30 knots, and cruises at 25 knots.

To reach this speeds she needed a high bow and an impressive power plant.

Power is provided by no less than four diesel engines MTU 16V4000 M70, each delivering 3,111 hp. Also, for extra power, the captain can rely on a gas turbine that can deliver more that 30.000 hp. Total power is 46,843 hp.

M/Y Ecstasea was built for the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and sold to another owner in 2009 for an undisclosed sum.

The launch of the remarkable motoryacht Ecstasea represented a number of milestones in the evolution of the superyacht industry. This space has been optimized to incorporate an extensive selection of cutting edge facilities. Ecstasea's exterior is distinguished by a powerful and modern signature, with a high bow for cutting through the waves. The challenge of matching the hull form required for 30-plus knots with a sleek look appropriate for a yacht of this speed has been successfully met.

The helicopter hangar in the bow is completely hidden, without a hint of the horizontal sliding hatches either technically or in terms of style. With a seam in the centerline of the boat, the hatch slides open in two halves to port and starboard.

The 86m superyacht can accommodate 14 guests in seven double cabins. Interior design is by Terence Disdale while the exterior design is by De Voogt.

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The launch of the remarkable motoryacht Ecstasea represented a number of major milestones in the evolution of the superyacht industry. This space has been optimized to incorporate an extensive selection of cutting edge facilities. Ecstasea ’s exterior is distinguished by a powerful and modern signature, with a high bow for cutting through the waves. The challenge of matching the hull form required for 30-plus knots with a sleek look appropriate for a yacht of this speed has been successfully met. The helicopter hangar in the bow is completely hidden, without a hint of the horizontal sliding hatches either technically or in terms of style. With a seam in the centerline of the boat, the hatch slides open in two halves to port and starboard.

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ECSTASEA is a 85.95 m Motor Yacht, built in Netherlands by Feadship and delivered in 2004.

Her top speed is 36.0 kn and her cruising speed is 25.0 kn and her power comes from a General Electric gas turbine engine. She can accommodate up to 12 guests. She has a gross tonnage of 2107.0 GT and a 11.5 m beam.

She was designed by Feadship De Voogt Naval Architects , who also completed the naval architecture. Feadship De Voogt Naval Architects has designed 49 yachts and created the naval architecture for 102 yachts for yachts above 24 metres.

Her interior was designed by Terence Disdale , who has 77 other superyacht interiors designed in the BOAT Pro database - she is built with a Teak deck, a Steel hull, and Aluminium superstructure.

ECSTASEA is in the top 5% by LOA and in the top 10% by speed in the world. She is one of 65 motor yachts in the 80-90m size range, and, compared to similarly sized motor yachts, her cruising speed is 10.06 kn above the average, and her top speed 17.64 kn above the average.

ECSTASEA is currently sailing under the Cayman Islands flag, the 2nd most popular flag state for superyachts with a total of 1361 yachts registered. She is currently located at the superyacht marina Albany Marina, in Bahamas, where she has been located for 6 days. For more information regarding ECSTASEA's movements, find out more about BOAT Pro AIS .

Specifications

• Name: ECSTASEA
• Yacht Type: Motor Yacht
• Builder: Feadship
• Naval Architect: Feadship De Voogt Naval Architects
• Exterior Designer: Feadship De Voogt Naval Architects
• Interior Designer: Terence Disdale
• Refits: 2020-05-24,2020-12-19,2021-12-10,2023-04-28,2022-12-03,2018-12-10,2019-05-07

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86m  /  282'2 | feadship | 2004 / 2011.

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Special Features:

• Two helicopter decks
• Fully equipped gymnasium
• Kaleidascape on-demand system
• Huge selection of water toys
• Two tenders
• Impressive interior volume
• Massage room and day spa
• Versatlile layout
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The award winning 86m/282'2" motor yacht 'Ecstasea' was built by Feadship in the Netherlands at their De Kaag shipyard. Her interior is styled by English designer design house Terence Disdale and she was completed in 2004. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Terence Disdale and she was last refitted in 2011.

Guest Accommodation

Ecstasea has been designed to comfortably accommodate up to 15 guests in 8 suites. She is also capable of carrying up to 27 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience.

Onboard Comfort & Entertainment

Her features include beach club, gym, deck jacuzzi, WiFi and air conditioning.

Range & Performance

Built with a steel hull and aluminium superstructure, with teak decks, she benefits from a semi-displacement hull to provide exceptional seakeeping and impressive speeds. Powered by 1 x gas turbine General Electric (LM 2500) 30,843hp engines, she comfortably cruises at 14 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 33 knots with a range of up to 5,000 nautical miles from her 138,000 litre fuel tanks at 15 knots. Ecstasea features at-anchor stabilizers providing exceptional comfort levels. She was built to Lloyds Register ✠100A1 SSC Yacht (P), Mono HSG, G6, LMC, UMS, SCM classification society rules, and is MCA Compliant.

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Sea accidents aren’t exactly uncommon. Unruly weather, inexperienced pilots and the hand of fate often cause even the sturdiest of water vehicles to tumble around and break apart. In a similar turn of events, a luxury Superyacht named – ‘Ecstasea’ recently crashed into a bridge control booth in the Caribbean lagoon of St. Maarten, leaving several shocked across the globe.

View this post on Instagram And then this just happened, thankfully everyone is said to be okay. The exact cause of the accident is still unclear but this is 1 of multiple yachts to have collided with narrow opening of the bridge in the past few years Vid submitted to me an anonymous source. A post shared by Alex J (@theyachtguy) on Dec 15, 2019 at 11:59am PST

In the viral footage clicked by Bystanders on the scene, the entire episode can be seen on record with the clip(s) also capturing how the bridge’s operator jumps off the building in time and makes it to safety. Although the boat itself suffered minimal damage, the control booth structure was majorly destroyed. No casualties have been reported at the scene and the bridge will remain luckily remain operational with immediate effect.

Commenting on the incident, Simpson Bay Lagoon Corporation project manager Bertrand Peters in a statement said, “It was tricky – the vessel had some difficulties. The impact took out the booth but the controls and gear were all intact so the bridge remains fully operational and opening times will not be affected.” Well, all’s well that ends well after all!

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Motoryacht ECSTASEA

The ECSTASEA yacht is a 282.2ft / 86m luxury yacht built and launched by yacht builder Feadship . Delivered to a proud yacht owner in 2004 and refit in 2009, this luxury yacht sleeps up to 16 guests in 8 staterooms and has accommodations for 25 crew. She has a beam of 39ft / 11.9m, a draft of 12.5ft / 3.8m, and she measures in at 2,107 gross tons. Her hull is steel and her decks are teak. Her max speed is 33 knots and cruising speed is 22 knots. She is propelled by MTU engines at 3,000 hp each. Her interior design is by Terence Disdale Design with exterior styling by DeVoogt .

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A General Description of Motor Yacht ECSTASEA

This 86 metre (282 foot) luxury yacht was built at The Feadship Royal Van Lent Shipyard in 2004. Motor Yacht ECSTASEA is a imposing superyacht. An exciting important detail of this interesting motor yacht is her heli pad. The firm of naval architecture whom authored this yacht's design work on the yacht is De Voogt Naval Architects. The vessel had interior is the talent of Terence Disdale Design. Luxury yacht ECSTASEA is a quality yacht that can sleep up to 14 guests on board and has approximately 25 qualified crew.

The New Build & Designing relating to Luxury Yacht ECSTASEA

De Voogt Naval Architects was the naval architect firm involved in the formal superyacht plans for ECSTASEA. Also the company De Voogt Naval Architects expertly collaborated on this undertaking. Interior designer Terence Disdale Design was selected for the overall internal ambience. the Netherlands is the country that The Feadship Royal Van Lent Shipyard constructed their new build motor yacht in. After her official launch in 2004 in Kaag she was handed over to the happy owner following final finishing. A fairly large feeling is manifested with a total beam (width) of 11.5 metres / 37.7 ft. With a 3.8m (12.45ft) draught (maximum depth) she is deep. The material steel was used in the building of the hull of the motor yacht. Her superstructure over the hull is built from aluminium. In 2009 further refit work and updating was in addition finished.

Engines & Speed On M/Y ECSTASEA:

The 16V 4000 M70 + GE LM 2500 engine installed in the motor yacht is made by MTU / GEC. Connected to her MTU / GEC engine(s) are twin screw propellers / 1wj (kamewa). The main engine of the yacht generates 3100 horse power (or 2281 kilowatts). She is equiped with 4 engines. The combined thrust for the boat is therefore 6200 HP / 9124 KW.

On board Superyacht ECSTASEA She has Guest Accommodation Potential:

Providing quarters for a limit of 14 yacht guests overnighting, the ECSTASEA accommodates everyone luxuriously. This ship uses approx 25 professional qualified crew to manage.

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During Sept 2009 ECSTASEA visited Antibes, in France. This motor yacht has traveled the cruising ground near Département des Alpes-Maritimes during the month of October 2009. The Feadship Motor Yacht was designed to have a helicopter platform facility. Heinen & Hopman is the type of AC to regulate the temperature. ECSTASEA features a teak deck.

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The luxury yacht ECSTASEA displayed on this page is merely informational and she is not necessarily available for yacht charter or for sale, nor is she represented or marketed in anyway by CharterWorld. This web page and the superyacht information contained herein is not contractual. All yacht specifications and informations are displayed in good faith but CharterWorld does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the current accuracy, completeness, validity, or usefulness of any superyacht information and/or images displayed. All boat information is subject to change without prior notice and may not be current.

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A new mom died after giving birth at a Boston hospital. Was corporate greed to blame?

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Updated on: February 28, 2024 / 10:36 AM EST / CBS News

Nabil Haque said he can still remember the moment his wife Sungida Rashid first held their baby daughter in her arms after giving birth at Boston's St. Elizabeth's Medical Center last October.

"It was a beautiful moment," Haque told CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook, in his first television interview. "I wasn't expecting it to be this blissful."

The bliss was short-lived. In the hours after delivery, Rashid experienced a cascade of complications at a hospital that was unexpectedly ill-prepared for her urgent need, and was transferred to another hospital, where she died. Her death has triggered a fresh wave of public scrutiny into the mounting patient risks and health care compromises that have surfaced under hospitals owned by private equity-backed companies.

"They've taken money away from these hospitals that provide needed care and they're using that money to line their own pockets." Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey told CBS News. "I'm disgusted. It's selfish. It's greed."

The hospital where Rashid gave birth, St. Elizabeth's, is one of dozens of hospitals across the U.S. acquired in the past 15 years by a company called Steward Health Care. With hundreds of millions of dollars in backing from private equity giant Cerberus , Steward started buying up Massachusetts hospitals in 2010 and now owns 33 hospitals across 8 states. 

The Dallas-based health care company has been one focus of a year-and-a-half-long CBS News investigation revealing how private equity investors have siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars from community hospitals with devastating public health consequences . Last April, CBS News found Steward redirected money away from hospital operations by selling off the real estate of San Antonio's Texas Vista Medical Center before closing the facility altogether.

A spokesperson for Steward told CBS News company executives always put patients first and said they "deny that any other considerations were placed ahead of that guiding principle." In an earlier statement, the spokesperson said Steward "has actively and meaningfully invested" in its hospital system since its formation, including in Massachusetts, where it took over hospitals that were "failing" and "about to close."

"Steward's investment has taken the form of facility upgrades, equipment, technology, and other meaningful improvements," the spokesperson wrote. 

Yet records reviewed by CBS News showed Steward hospitals around the country with a trail of unpaid bills, at times risking a shortage of potentially life-saving supplies. That appears to be what happened at St. Elizabeth's last October, where medical staff says a device that could have stopped the bleeding in Rashid's liver was repossessed by the manufacturer weeks earlier. 

After giving birth, Rashid experienced bleeding from her uterus, followed by pain around the back of her rib cage. Doctors sent her for an emergency CT scan and then rushed her to the emergency room where, Haque said, they found bleeding in her liver. Hours later, Rashid died during surgery at a second hospital, a tragedy first reported by the Boston Globe,  

Rashid's death is now the subject of a state investigation. Haque says doctors told him they wanted to use a device called an embolization coil to stop the bleeding from his wife's liver. He said when St. Elizabeth's didn't have the coil, she was transferred to the second hospital. 

"An hour later, she had another cardiac arrest," Haque said. "They couldn't revive her. It was shocking. I said, 'Well, what exactly happened?'"

In a complaint filed to Massachusetts' health department obtained by CBS News, health care workers at St. Elizabeth's said the manufacturer had come to "retrieve any coils at the hospital" weeks before because Steward hadn't paid its bills. According to a lawsuit filed last October by the manufacturer, Steward owed about $2.5 million in unpaid bills.  

Steward declined to comment on Rashid's death, citing privacy concerns. The incident has touched off a wave of recriminations in Massachusetts, where Steward owns nine hospitals, including St. Elizabeth's. Healey called her death "outrageous," and her administration is looking at whether her death was preventable. 

"It underscores what has been happening out here with Steward," said Healey. " If you are about cutting corners in furtherance of making money, people are going to get hurt. That's wrong. That needs to change."

Concern about hospitals closing

In December, Steward informed health officials in Massachusetts that it would be closing New England Sinai in Stoughton, another of its hospitals in the state. The announcement has set off statewide fears about the company's financial situation and whether it would be shuttering more hospitals. 

"It's a catastrophic situation in our state," said emergency room nurse Kathy Reardon, an official with the Massachusetts Nurses Association, a union that represents health care workers at Steward's hospitals in the state.

Reardon said Steward's hospitals typically serve low-income communities and patients without a primary care doctor who end up using the emergency room for their health needs. 

"If any of these hospitals were to close, it would be an astronomically tragic situation for all the citizens of Massachusetts," she said. 

In February, a Steward executive sent a message informing staff the company had secured financing "to help stabilize" hospital operations, and, in a statement, a company spokesperson told CBS News it has no plans to close any additional hospitals.

Healey said Steward's failures have prompted her to install monitors — staff from the state's health department — inside each of Steward's hospitals to try to ensure patient safety. She said she believes Steward should no longer be operating in Massachusetts.  "They've taken too much from too many," Healey said "The sooner Steward is out of our state, the better."

Financial questions — and a $40 million yacht 

In a statement to CBS News, a Steward spokesperson said that the company had invested about $2 billion in the hospitals it has acquired, including propping up the employee pension fund for employees at its Massachusetts hospitals, which was underfunded by hundreds of millions of dollars when Steward acquired them.

The company has blamed its current financial woes on the pandemic and low reimbursement rates from Medicare and Medicaid services. 

In a lengthy interview with CBS News, Healey called Steward's justification "hogwash." Instead, she accused Steward executives of driving the company deep into debt while enriching themselves — all at the public's expense. 

"The game was, come to Massachusettts, make some investments and then begin to suck out as much as you can in terms of profits," she said. 

Cerberus, the private equity firm, shed its stake in Steward by January 2021, after making an $800 million profit in a decade, according to a report from Bloomberg . Financial records show Steward has also sold off more than $1 billion of its hospitals' land and buildings since 2016 to Medical Properties Trust, which has made a business of buying up hospital real estate from private equity investors. 

Last year, CBS News reported on Prospect Medical , another private equity-backed chain, whose owners sold off the real estate of a group of suburban Pennsylvania hospitals to cover the debt they incurred when they paid themselves hundreds of millions of dollars out of the company's coffers. 

The financial moves, though legal, ultimately spelled doom for the century-old Delaware County Memorial Hospital, which was forced to shut its doors after Pennsylvania's health department deemed the facility inadequately staffed.

Angela Neopolitano, who worked at Delaware County Memorial for 41 years, says, before the closure, the hospital was dismantled piece by piece, leading to longer waits in the emergency room and forcing staff to transfer more patients to other hospitals.

"They kept on cutting services," Neopolitano said. "Things wouldn't get fixed. Our elevator in  the back of the emergency room had been broken for over a year. When they closed the ICU, that was the knife in my heart." 

A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission from 2021 shows Steward's owners also paid themselves millions in dividends. Around the same time, Steward CEO Ralph de la Torre acquired a 190-foot yacht estimated to be worth $40 million. 

In an email to CBS News, Steward confirmed de la Torre owned the yacht. Reports about the vessel have been particularly galling to health care workers on the front lines of Steward's hospitals. 

Respiratory therapist Jessica Carrasco worked at Texas Vista Medical Center, Steward's San Antonio hospital, for eight years. She said, before the company shut the hospital down last May, there was a shortage of tubing for respiratory masks.

"Coordinators were having to phone a friend to let us borrow, you know, a cup of sugar," Carrasco said. 

At Steward's Massachusetts hospitals, CBS News found at least 16 vendors weren't paid on time, including a dialysis company that provided life-saving services. Reardon said the supply shortages were unlike anything she's experienced in her 35 years of nursing.

"It's unacceptable to us," she said. "They pick and choose who to pay and what supplies to get." 

A family's loss: "It's just still surreal"

Sungida Rashid and Nabil Haque had come to Boston earlier in 2023 for Haque's postdoctoral program. Haque told us his wife's smile and sense of humor could light up a room. 

"The laugh was, you know, contagious, and you could hear it from a different apartment, but that's something I really liked about her," Haque said. "It's just still surreal, she's not here." 

Haque said he was angry when he first learned from a Globe reporter that the hospital's embolization coil had been repossessed. Now, he says he is trying to focus on the small milestones in his daughter's life instead of wondering whether his wife would still be here if the couple didn't deliver at a Steward hospital.

"I'm looking forward to her starting to walk and eat solid food, and I'm not planning anything about myself," said Haque, who spoke with CBS News from his parents' home in Bangladesh. "A lot of my plans are now buried with Sungida." 

Michael Kaplan is an award-winning reporter and producer for the CBS News investigative unit. He specializes in securing scoops and crafting long-form television investigations. His work has appeared on "60 Minutes," CNN, and in the New York Times.

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'Ecstasea' collides with bridge

The 86m connected with part of the simpson bay bridge….

M/Y Ecstasea has been involved in a significant incident on the island of St Maarten. 

The 86m vessel inadvertently destroyed the operator’s cabin at Simpson Bay Bridge, with widely circulated video footage clearly showing an open starboard hatch to be the culprit for the collision. 

At the time of writing, there is no indication that anyone was hurt. But it does represent the 26th incident of any form to involve a superyacht in 2019. This represents a 62.5 per cent increase on 2018. But, of course, 2017 still represents the highest tally, with 31 recorded incidents, attributed in no small part to the series of natural disasters that occurred in freak sequence that year. 

The video was widely circulated on Twitter . 

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Superyacht Ecstasea Crushes Simpson Bay Bridge Operator’s shack!

The Superyacht Ecstasea was going through the Simpson Bay Bridge in St Maarten when a hatch that was left open smashed into the bridge operator’s shack, knocking it into the water. The bridge operator thankfully was not in the shack, he was just outside wincing as his office crumbled.

Serving as a gateway to the Caribbean for many superyachts, the Simpson Bay Bridge in St Maarten has seen its fair share of dings and scratches from passing vessels. In fact earlier this year we posted a video of the Superyacht Azteca scraping its hull badly against the bridge. In that incident the bridge was spared major damage, but the yacht surely had hundreds of thousands of dollars in repairs done to get it back in shape.

This weekend the Superyacht Ecstasea was making its way through the bridge and as usual there were many onlookers at a neighboring bar with their phones out, trained on the beautiful yachts coming through the bridge. The Ecstasea gave them something to record as it had an open hatch jutting out on the bow, the office crumbles when the (well-made) hatch pushes into it.

The bridge operator is no doubt thanking his lucky stars that he was outside the shack when the yacht came through.

Check out the video for yourself here:

Check out the last incident we saw at the bridge with the Superyacht Azteca!

Update: The shack’s remains have been cleaned up and traffic continues to flow through the bridge. One upside, the view of the bridge traffic from the famous Simpson Bay Yacht Club has improved! Meanwhile the Ecastasea has been repaired and cleaned up (see below) and was spotted in St Barts with the rest of her billionaire owned friends. Including the 533 foot Eclipse owned by Ecstasea’s former own, Roman Abramovich!

Many, many captains have had white knuckle moments at this bridge. Most get through with at worst a little scratch. Watch it being done right when Steve Jobs’ Feadship is recorded from above as it is expertly maneuvered through the bridge.

Click here to read about the captain that got very lucky as his yacht nearly smacks into the jetty at the Boca Raton inlet:

Watch as this yacht almost smashes into the rocks at Boca Raton Inlet

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