Bayesian Shipwreck, Bodies of Bloomer, Morvillo and Two Wives Identified –

Four bodies recovered and brought ashore; a fifth identified in the wreck. The turning point was at about 50 meters deep, where a storm, at dawn on Monday, hurled a super yacht flying the British flag. The speleo-diving teams of the fire brigade combed the cabin area of ​​the Bayesian and found first two bodies, shortly after another two, all brought ashore. According to sources, a fifth body was identified. And the four bodies recovered have been identified: they are the president of Morgan Stanley International, Jonathan Bloomer, and his wife, Judy; the lawyer Chris Morvillo, of the law firm Clifford Chance, together with his wife Neda. The British IT magnate Mike Lynch, who had wanted this floating party to celebrate his acquittal, and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, are reportedly missing. A few hours after the shipwreck, the Canadian-Antiguan chef Recaldo Thomas was found outside the wreck. An extremely delicate operation conducted by the divers of the National Corps, with the coordination of the Coast Guard. In addition to the challenging depth that makes it necessary to reduce the dive times of each team composed of two units, there is also the narrowness of the environments to be explored and the presence of numerous objects that hinder penetration. It is a “small Concordia” said the 4 of them who participated in the rescue of the Costa ship that sank on January 12, 2012 in front of the Giglio Island. Also involved is a “robot” of the Coast Guard capable of operating on the seabed up to 300 meters, with an autonomy of between 6 and 7 hours, recording videos and detailed images, useful elements to reconstruct the dynamics of the accident for the purposes of the investigation.

The activity of the Termini Imerese prosecutor’s office has also entered a delicate phase. The office directed by Ambrogio Cartosio is listening to the survivors of the shipwreck. For a couple of hours the captain, James Cutfield, 51, from New Zealand, was interviewed to reconstruct what happened both before and during the storm that, in the early hours of the morning, hit the roadstead. Only the super yacht flying the British flag sank in a matter of minutes, while other boats – even smaller ones – resisted. The prosecutors used an interpreter and also asked for an account of the behavior of the crew, composed of 10 people, 9 of whom survived. The prosecutor Raffaele Cammarano then listened to other survivors. Important testimonies that will allow investigators to evaluate the weight in this story of the exceptional nature of an adverse and completely unpredictable atmospheric event, or of human error that takes hold, which could also consist in not having foreseen or not having been able to deal with a situation that, although certainly complicated, did not cause any damage to the schooner that was moored a short distance from the Bayesian, the Sir Robert Baden Powell, from which in fact the very first rescue operations for the shipwrecked departed. Among the issues is that of a hatch that could have been left open, or of the mobile keel of the vessel found by the divers raised that could have caused the sinking in a few minutes, “three to five, from the moment the boat was lifted by the waves of the sea until it sank”, according to the words of some survivors who had been collected by the rescuers. Possible human errors that could have been fatal. The atmosphere is even more melancholy in the Domina Zagarella resort in Santa Flavia where the survivors are being hosted, transformed into a sort of headquarters for investigators, increasingly secure, also protected by the crisis management unit activated by the shipping company which refers to a company to which Angela Bacares, Lynch’s wife, is connected.