Dead or on the lamb?

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They now say it was most likely a downburst, a sudden downward air current that sometimes appear below storm clouds. The Mediterranean is known for its sudden and strong storms, but this storm was expected.


The 16 minutes were counted starting at the time we see the lights going down on the video posted by Encia22 and the time the GPS stopped working, which is assumed was the time it was already under water and uncapable of contacting the satellites.

The ship's black box would be a great help in solving this.

PS: regarding this being one or more homicides disguised as an accident, for that to be likely the killer(s) would need to know that the ship was going to be hit by a very strong storm, otherwise the sinking of the ship would look terribly suspicious. Even as things are it is suspicious, imagine if the weather wasn't as bad as it was.

I believe the weather services had forecasted storms for that night, no? I suppose a downburst would be a freak occurrence that could be troubling, but enough to capsize a yacht? I dunno. I guess I have never heard of any other boats being capsized by a downdraft and furthermore, a yacht seems like it would a bit too large to be effected in such a way, but I'm no boating expert.

So the GPS log is also troubling. I would presume the antenna for GPS navigation to be on the top of the boat - probably on the roof somewhere. RF doesn't travel under water. Water is a perfect faraday cage. If the boat was capsized, the antenna would have been under water. So, the fact that we have 16 minutes of GPS data is an indicator that the boat was right side up until it sank below water.