The $700 million Scheherazade superyacht may be impounded, but this did not stop its crew from using fire hoses on unsuspecting journalists who wanted to take a closer look at the 466 foot long vessel. The crew also launched a drone to harass the media.

You can look at the Scheherazade megayacht, you can write about it, and even talk about it (not its owner though), but try coming close and the crew unleashes chaos. Scheherazade has been in the port of the Italian city of Carrara, seized by Italian officials. It hasn’t seen much in the name of activity, but all that changed speedily when a journalist hopped aboard a boat on Marina de Carrera. It must’ve seemed like a threat of some sort to the crew of the 460 ft megayacht designed by Espen Oeino and interiors by Francois Zuretti. The otherwise calm day turned topsy-turvy with people scrambling on one of the decks of the six-level luxury vessel.

The journalist and cameraman were interrupted by the Italian police unit, who did not interfere with the filming. The journalists launched their drone to shoot the magnificent vessel, a move that was challenged by another drone launched from the Scheherazade helipad. In James Bond style, the filming crew experienced technical difficulties like unexpected interference and loss of communication with the drone. It sounds like the anti-drone system installed on Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich’s $610 million Solaris superyacht that tracks potential intruders as far as 20km away and provides GPS coordinates of both drone and pilot together with the device’s speed and compass heading.