PORTICELLO, Italy (AP and EFE).— How was it possible that a 56-metre superyacht, equipped with the most modern technology and radar equipment, could sink in a few minutes, as demonstrated by the numerous videos acquired by investigators in homes and at a yacht club located in the area?
That’s it the mystery that researchers are trying to solve of the Italian police after the The Bayesian tragedythe luxury yacht of British flag which sank early Monday morning during a storm while anchored one kilometer off the coast of Sicily.
Yesterday the Coast Guard Italian authorities said rescue crews have recovered the body of British tech mogul Mike Lynchalong with five other people, among the remains of the superyacht.
A woman remains missing and unidentified, but Hannah Lynch, Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter has not been foundaccording to reports.
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Fifteen of the 22 people on board managed to escape in a lifeboat.including a mother who held her one-year-old daughter over the waves to save her.
The provisional balance of death toll rises to six.
Officials of Civil defense They believe that the boat was hit by a tornado or a waterspout and sank rapidly.
Researchers at the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Termini Imerse They were gathering evidence for a criminal investigation, which they opened immediately after the tragedy, although no formal suspects have been publicly identified.
The chief executive of Italian Sea Group, which owns the manufacturer of the “Bayesian”declared that superyachts like this “are the safest in every sense.”
“First of all, because they have very little surface area compared to yachts that face the wind,” explained the CEO Giovanni Costantino at Sky News channel the day before yesterday. “Second, because of their structure, their keel, they become bodies that are impossible to sink.”
Authorities are now investigating Why the “Bayesian”, built in 2008 by the Italian shipyard Perini Navi, sank while another ship passing nearby remained virtually unscathed.
Yachts like the Bayesian must have watertight compartments, specifically designed to prevent rapid and catastrophic sinking, even if parts of it fill with water.
They tried to save themselves
The Prosecutor’s Office questioned the captain of the superyacht for more than two hours in a hotel in the area, James CatfieldNew Zealander from 51 years old and one of the survivors.
The deceased were not trapped in their cabins but were trying to escape from the water that was flooding the interior of the boat.
This detail emerged from the positions and places where the divers’ bodies were found; they were in different areas of the yacht and in cabins than those indicated by the survivors in the testimonies collected, according to the first reconstructions cited by the Italian media.
He Lynch’s bodyrecovered yesterday, was found near the aft main cabin.
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2024-09-04 18:01:23
