the testimonies – The Time

Trapped like rats, while the sailing ship was taking on water, the passengers looked for escape routes, reaching the opposite side of the vessel where they were. But the water had already reached the rooms and five of them were found in that direction, not in their rooms. But on the opposite side. Just as they were trying to save themselves. This is what emerges, as Adnkronos has learned, from the testimonies given to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Termini Imerese (Palermo) by those who remained alive, but above all, from the plans of the boat. Five of the victims were found in rooms other than those indicated by the survivors. The Public Prosecutor’s Office, led by Ambrogio Cartosio, is investigating for shipwreck, disaster, multiple homicide and negligent injury, at the moment without suspects. The six victims recovered so far were not in the rooms indicated by the survivors, at least not all of them. But on the opposite side. Another new element that emerges from the investigation is that the vessel sank by the bow. Then, it slowly capsized on its right side. This also emerges from the testimonies. And in the bow area there were the crew’s quarters.

From the accounts of witnesses, including the captain of the sailing boat Sir Robert Baden Powell, Karsten Borner, and the passengers on board, who intervened during the storm, and the survivors. The magistrates have listened in recent days to the 15 survivors of the shipwreck, including Angela Bacares, 57, the wife of British magnate Mike Lynch, found lifeless in the hull this morning. The woman told investigators that she revealed that the first sign of the storm that arrived in a few moments and sank the luxury sailing boat Bayesian shortly before 5 this morning was a “slight tilt” that woke her up. Bacares immediately went to the upper part of the boat. Perhaps this was her salvation. Here are the other survivors: James Emsilie, 35, with his wife Charlotte Golunski, also 35, and little Sophia, one year old, Sasha Murray, 29, Irish; Myin Htun Kyaw, 39, from Myanmar; Matthew Griffith, 22, French; James Calfield, 51, from New Zealand, the ship’s captain; Ayla Ronald, 36, of English nationality as well as Matthew Fletcher, 41; Koopmans Tus, 33, Dutch; Leo Eppel, born in South Africa, 20, and Parker Eaton, English, 56. They are joined by the two stewardesses on board the yacht, Leah Randall, 20, born in South Africa, and Katja Chicken, 22, German.