Dead or on the lamb?

[guyfriday]

Did this guy really die in the boat sinking, or did he use this as a way to go on the lam?
How did the superyacht carrying tech tycoon Mike Lynch sink off Sicily? | Shipping News | Al Jazeera

 One person has died and six are missing after a superyacht capsized off the Sicilian coast in the Mediterranean on Monday at about 5am (03:00 GMT) after it was hit by stormy weather caused by a “waterspout” – or mini tornado – according to Italian authorities.
 
The cruise had reportedly been undertaken to celebrate the acquittal of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, who has been missing, in a fraud trial in the United States in June.

His co-defendant in the trial, Steve Chamberlain, who was also acquitted in June, was killed after being hit by a car on Saturday.

Some of the people that are still presumed missing are:

 

• Mike Lynch, 59, a British-Irish technology businessman who co-founded British tech company Autonomy in 1996 and was once likened to Microsoft founder Bill Gates; he earned a PhD from Cambridge University
  
• Hannah Lynch, 18, Mike’s daughter, who had just completed her final school exams and was due to begin a degree in English at the University of Oxford this September
  
• Jonathan Bloomer, the 70-year-old British chairman of Morgan Stanley bank and the Hiscox insurance company, was confirmed as missing by Hiscox CEO Aki Hussain
  
• Judy Bloomer, Jonathan’s wife, was also confirmed as missing by Hussain
  
• Chris Morvillo, from British international law firm Clifford Chance, was confirmed to be missing by Salvatore Cocina, head of the Civil Protection in Sicily
  

My focus here is on the missing Mike Lynch. From a CNN report about this case he was involved in:
British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch acquitted in fraud trial over Hewlett-Packard deal | CNN Business

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch was acquitted of fraud Thursday by a jury in San Francisco, a major win for the software entrepreneur who has been dogged by legal problems since the disastrous sale of his company to Hewlett-Packard (HP) for $11 billion in 2011.
Representatives for Lynch and US prosecutors said Lynch was acquitted on all 15 charges — one count of conspiracy and 14 counts of wire fraud.
Former Autonomy finance executive Stephen Chamberlain, who faced the same charges at trial alongside Lynch, was also acquitted on all counts, the Lynch representative said.

Why does this matter? 
Lynch got off pretty easy in San Francisco and guess who else made out from his bad sale... Nancy Pelosi. From a CBS Money Watch dated June 20th 2011
 Pelosi, Boehner and More: Where Lawmakers Put Their Money - CBS News

 Nancy Pelosi. She and her husband Paul reported losses of between $400,000 and $4 million from the sale of high profile tech company stock holdings:

• Cisco: sold 100%. Capital loss of $100,000-$1 million
  
• Ebay: sold 100%. Capital loss of $100,000-$1 million
  
• Yahoo: sold 100%. Capital loss of $100,000-$1 million
  
• Motorola: sold 100%. Capital loss of $100,000-$1 million
  

Only Motorola isn't based in Pelosi's Silicon Valley backyard. (For the record, she doesn't represent Silicon Valley, but rather San Francisco, 30 miles north.)That might be a big headache if the Pelosis relied on her $230,000 earned income to make ends meet. But that's not an issue. It looks like those tech stock losses were in fact a smart tactical move to help the couple offset a massive capital gain they also booked in 2010, courtesy of Silicon Valley's cash machine: Apple. The Pelosis sold a chunk of their Apple holdings and reported a capital gain of between $1 million and $5 million. For the record, the stock has gained another 40 percent since the Pelosis sold last spring. And hey, they still report owning between $500,000 and $1 million of Apple stock.

oddly the earnings of HP aren't listed yet it's well known that Pual Pelosi owns shares of it. This loss that was created by Lynch through his sale of Autonomy Corporation PLC over valued price cause HP to have a significant loss. Now the question left was this loss created on purpose to offset surprise gains Apple made that year? Now to his odd disappearance. 

From the first article I posted:

 His co-defendant in the trial, Steve Chamberlain, who was also acquitted in June, was killed after being hit by a car on Saturday.

Was Lynch afraid that he would be killed next, and was a rampaging Nancy Pelosi behind Chamberlains death? If Lynch thought this then it might explain why he sank with the boat so to speak. I know, some of you here will call me nuts, but when Nancy Pelosi thought her husband Paul was fooling around, that weird Hammer to the head incident happened. She also was involved in forcing Biden to leave the Presidential Campaign and could very well be one of the secret hands pulling the strings behind the scenes of Government in the US. Let's not forget that weird hand thing during her State of the Union Speech with Trump where she tore the speech in half. 


What does the community think; "Do you think that Mike Lynch did die in the "accident", or do you think this was about going on the run?"

[Encia22]

Yes, I think it was just a freak accident.

This morning I saw a CCTV clip of the boat disappearing as the waterspout/storm hit it. The yacht went down in a matter of seconds. Those sound asleep at the time couldn't have had time to escape and I'm pretty sure the missing bodies are still in the boat sitting at the bottom of the sea.

Description from YT video...
 

 
CCTV from a Sicilian port has captured the moment that superyacht Bayesian sank during a violent storm just before 5am Monday (local time). Search operations remain ongoing for six people who are still missing, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, after the 56-metre boat capsized.

One man has died, identified as Recaldo Thomas who was working as a chef onboard, while 15 have survived. Those missing include Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah Lynch, lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda Morvillo, chair of Morgan Stanley International bank Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy Bloomer.

Keep your eye on the light at the top of the mast.

[Encia22]

Ok, I just read more about the ongoing investigation.

Apparently, there may have been a series of failures (human and technical) that allowed the yacht to take on water and sink so fast.

It's all in an Italian news article that isn't worth linking as it's mostly behind a paywall. However, the main points are:

1) A bridge hatch that was left open;

2) the boat's swing keel left up, basically a mobile keel that can be raised and lowered. The boat was anchored, so the keel should have been down; with it raised the vessel was less stable and more susceptible to yawing and rolling;

3) the yacht's positioning. No details on this aspect, but I imagine that it should have been pointing in the general direction of the wind;

4) a delay in the ship's automatic lock-down (seal-all-the-hatches sort of thing) in cases of emergency.

I'm sure more information will come out in good time.

[guyfriday]

As an update, it seems that maybe my presumption was wrong. 
Bodies found in doomed Bayesian yacht identified as Mike Lynch, daughter Hannah: report (nypost.com)

 The two bodies found inside the wreckage of the Bayesian superyacht have been identified as British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his teenage daughter Hannah, according to a report.
 
Lynch, 59, and his 18-year-old daughter’s bodies were found inside one of the ship’s cabins and brought to shore Wednesday as two additional bodies were discovered by search teams, according to The Telegraph and The Independent.
 
The two other bodies have not been identified, according to reports.
 
Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, managed to escape the sinking ship before it capsized.
 
Dive teams have been searching for the missing passengers, including Morgan Stanley chairman Jonathan Bloomer, his wife, Judy Bloomer, New York City lawyer Christopher Morvillo and his jewelry designer wife, Neda Morvillo.

Now I'm wondering if this could have been prevented, and was the sinking intentional? Something about this makes my CT-Senses tingle am I'm not sure why yet.

[Encia22]

All the missing persons have been found. They were all still in the yacht. 

Now the finger pointing starts. 

Correction: One body is still missing, that of Lynch’s eighteen-year-old daughter.

:cheers:

[AianawaQ1320]

This impossible event, is Qishy in deed.

[guyfriday]

A little odd tid-bit about this yacht sinkage.
Bayesian superyacht maker says his boats are ‘unsinkable' as probe into tragedy continues (msn.com)

 The boss of the company behind the doomed Bayesian superyacht has described the vessel as "unsinkable".
Giovanni Costantino, who heads The Italian Sea Group, insisted that boats built by his firms are "safest in the most absolute sense".
Speaking to Sky News, Mr Costantino defended the yacht's design, saying there were no flaws or mistakes in the Bayesian, which capsized in a storm off the Sicilian coast and sank within minutes.

What other boating disaster happened on an "Unsinkable" ship, where a lot of economic elites went missing?

[Encia22]

A little odd tid-bit about this yacht sinkage.
Bayesian superyacht maker says his boats are ‘unsinkable' as probe into tragedy continues (msn.com)

What other boating disaster happened on an "Unsinkable" ship, where a lot of economic elites went missing?

Leaving a hatch open, sailing into an iceberg... it's almost always human error that sinks ships.

[Encia22]

All the missing persons have been found. They were all still in the yacht. 

Now the finger pointing starts. 

Correction: One body is still missing, that of Lynch’s eighteen-year-old daughter.

:cheers:

Just to conclude this sorry saga, Hannah Lynch's body has just been found and recovered. She was trapped in one of the other cabins.

So, with everyone accounted for, at least the families can now put their loved ones to rest in peace.

As for the Bayesian, there are plans to raise her from the seabed. If it weren't for the ongoing investigation, I'd rather see her undisturbed and left to lay in her watery tomb.

[ArMaP]

According to the Giovanni Costantino, CEO of The Italian Sea Group, which owns the company that made the Bayesian, it was the crew's fault, and one of the things he says is:

the yacht's crew should have been in a state of "alert management", meaning everyone on board had to be in the main lounge, which is the assembly point, rather than their cabins