Dead or on the lamb?

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The sinking reason seems to have changed from a tornado to a waterspout to possible manslaughter. This was from yesterday (August 23rd)
Bayesian yacht maker blames 'indescribable' crew errors (nypost.com)

The CEO of the company that built the $40 million yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily this week has blamed the crew for the tragedy — saying they had 16 minutes and could have easily saved the seven who died.
 
“The boat suffered a series of indescribable, unreasonable errors,” Giovanni Costantino, CEO of the Italian Sea Group, told Reuters of the Bayesian sinking Monday, killing seven of the 22 onboard.

Some points that the owner of the company that built the yacht, from the linked article;

 Costantino, whose company includes Perini Navi, the Italian high-end yacht maker that built the 183-foot superyacht in 2008, staunchly defended its construction — saying it had survived far more extreme storms during 22 years of trouble-free navigation.

He said the crew had a 16-minute window before the craft sank — plenty of time to get everyone to safety.
“The torture lasted 16 minutes,” he told the Financial Times.
“It went down, not in one minute as some scientists have said. It went down in 16 minutes. You can see it from the charts, from the AIS (Automatic Identification System) tracking chart,” he said.

Additionally, doors and hatches should have been closed, and the keel should have been lowered to increase stability, among other safety measures, Costantino said.
Had correct procedures been followed, all passengers would have gone back to sleep after one hour, “and the next morning they would have happily resumed their wonderful cruise,” he added.
“The captain should have prepared the boat and put it in a state of alert and of safety.”

He even states this tid-bit in the article,

“Ask yourself — why were none of the Porticello fishermen out that night? A fisherman checks the conditions and a ship doesn’t? The disturbance was completely readable on all the weather maps. It was impossible not to know,” he said.

Given that the Captain was used to operating this yacht, and had done so for 8 years, one has to wonder if he didn't get paid off to look the other way or even do the deed himself on this. I think the sale of Autonomy Corporation PLC to Hewlett-Packard might need a bit more digging into.