Quote: Prosecutors in Italy confirmed Saturday they opened a shipwreck and manslaughter investigation into the deadly sinking of the Bayesian superyacht, which killed a British tech tycoon and his daughter.
 
“We are only in the initial phase of the investigation. We can’t exclude any sort of development at present,” Termini Imerese prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio said.
 
No suspect has been identified in the tragedy, which left seven people dead, Cartosio added. 
 
The probe will focus on how a vessel deemed “unsinkable” by its manufacturer, Italian shipyard Perini Navi, went under while a nearby sailboat remained largely unscathed.
 
There is no information yet about the ship’s black box — and authorities declined to comment on reports its hatches had been left open.
 
There was no timeframe on possibly resurfacing the yacht, authorities said.
 
News of the investigation came one day after divers retrieved the body of the last victim from the sunken wreck. 

(08-24-2024, 02:01 PM)l0st Wrote: Does anyone know who was captaining this yacht? How experienced were they?

Quote: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.

Quote: 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.

Quote: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.

Quote: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.”

Quote:“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.

(08-24-2024, 04:18 PM)guyfriday Wrote: 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)

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


He even states this tid-bit in the article,

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.

(08-24-2024, 05:05 PM)l0st Wrote: It will be interesting to see what the toxicology results are for the deceased.

(08-24-2024, 06:09 PM)Encia22 Wrote: Drunk as skunks and high as kites... maybe.

(08-25-2024, 12:25 AM)l0st Wrote: IMHO the people who died on this expedition were already dead before the boat took on water.

(08-25-2024, 12:25 AM)l0st Wrote: 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.

Quote: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.