Dead or on the lamb?

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Drunk as skunks and high as kites... maybe.

Perhaps, but I'm thinking more along the lines of poisoning and a coverup for certain parties. This just doesn't happen. Being randomly hit by a tornado ("waterspout") out on the open water seems more than exceptionally rare to me. This yacht likely had at least two and maybe more full size, 1000hp+ diesel engines. Captain didn't see this coming? Nobody else on the yacht did either? I simply don't believe it. I know bullshit when I smell it. Unless there is radar evidence of a tornado developing directly next to the yacht over the course of a minute, leaving now time to react, I'm not buying it.

Add that to 16 minutes to sink? That's way more than enough time to put life preservers/survival suits on and to get into a lifeboat. IMHO the people who died on this expedition were already dead before the boat took on water.