The rescue of the seven people who died during the sinking of the luxury yacht Bayesianwhich remains submerged at a depth of 50 meters in Sicilybrought to light the dramatic end that the victims suffered. The local prosecutor’s office announced on Saturday an investigation into possible crimes of negligent shipwreck and involuntary manslaughter.
The firefighters who arrived to carry out a total of 123 dives Inside the sailboat, we were able to discover some details of what those last chilling moments were like.
But also, the difficulties that the divers encountered in the search tasks, since the ship is overturned on its side, filled with floating debris and mirrors that kept creating reflections in the water when pointed at with flashlights, reflect European media.
What happened to the sunken yacht in Sicily
Hours before the waterspout that occurred at dawn on Monday, A party was taking place at the Bayesianthe 56-metre-long British-flagged yacht, anchored 700 metres off the port of Porticello, with 12 passengers and 10 crew on board.
Lynch, a wealthy businessman nicknamed the “British Bill Gates,” was celebrating with friends, collaborators and lawyers after being acquitted in June in a fraud trial in the United States that could have cost him years in prison.
The ship sank rapidly and 15 people, including nine crew members, were rescued.. He Ship’s cook, Recaldo Thomasa Canadian born on the island of Antigua, was found dead.
The rescue mission lasted 5 days and focused on the six remaining missing: Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah, Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of the board of directors of Morgan Stanley International, as well as his wife and Chris Morvillo, a lawyer who defended Mike Lynch at his trial in the United States, and his wife. They were all found dead inside the sailboat.
The dramatic end of the Bayesian yacht
Divers located five bodies in the first cabin on the left and one, Hannah Lynch, in the third cabin on the left, reflected 20 Minutes.
He Inspector Vincenzo Nardonirecruited by the Naples fire department, put the spotlight on the problems they had to deal with underwater.
For example, the divers had to “recalibrate” to adapt to everything being sideways on the boat: “We had to review the scene from a different angle the way we would normally see it, so it made it more difficult,” he said.
He added that the yacht “It was a very confusing place, with cabinets and furniture spinning around.” Also, although it may seem like a minor detail, with “many mirrors reflecting the lanterns”something that is enhanced underwater.
Regarding the bodies, he said that “they were wedged in tight spaces, with furniture on top of them or next to them. They were all trapped.”
After four days of a controversial search due to the context, which prevented divers from being submerged for more than 12 minutesHannah Lynch’s body was the last to be pulled from the sea on Friday, August 23.
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Italy’s prosecutor’s office in Sicily announced on Saturday an investigation into possible crimes of negligent shipwreck and involuntary manslaughter.
“The Termini Imerese prosecutor’s office has filed a case with the State against unknown persons, for possible crimes of negligent shipwreck and multiple homicide by negligence,” prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio told reporters.
He warned, however, that The investigation is in an initial phaseas the latest body, that of Hannah Lynch, the tech mogul’s 18-year-old daughter, was not pulled from the sea until Friday.
“At this stage, precisely because the investigation may evolve in one direction or another, we are not ruling out anything at all,” he said.
The speed at which the yacht sank and the fact that other vessels around it were not affected raised questions, in particular about whether the ballasted keel, which acted as a counterweight to the imposing 75-metre mast, was lowered or raised at the time of the storm.
In an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, the boss of The Italian Sea Group, owner of the Perini Navi shipyard that built the “Bayesian”, pointed to human error.
Source: Ambito
