Aria SF, a 145-foot, $24 million superyacht, was launched in July at the ISA yard in Ancona, on the Adriatic coast of Italy. It was the yard’s latest luxury motoryacht, with five staterooms, a swimming pool, gym, terrace and all the latest bells and whistles. It had a steel hull and an aluminum superstructure, and its two 1,318-hp CAT C32 diesels produced a top speed of 16 knots.
After the launch, Aria SF cruised around the boot of Italy, and last week it was anchored off the small island of Formentera, just south of Ibiza in the Balearics. The first yacht in ISA’s GT 45 series, it was scheduled to make its world debut at the Cannes Yachting Festival, starting Sept. 6.
That won’t happen. Last week about 5 in the afternoon Aria SF caught on fire. The nine guests and seven crew on board at the time were all rescued by nearby boats, while the Salvamento Maritimo, the Spanish search-and-rescue agency, fought the fire for more than seven hours. They say it is unsalvageable, and the next day they towed the hulk to Ibiza. Spanish authorities are investigating the cause of the fire.
Aria SF is owned by Paolo Scudieri, the head of a large auto-supply company in Italy. We don’t know if he was on the yacht at the time. We do know that when he’s on land, Scudieri races his Ferrari in the Ferrari challenge, a competition for Ferrari owners.
Read more at https://www.dmarge.com/superyacht-fire-formentera and see the factory’s video of Aria SF just after the launch below:
