Dead or on the lamb?

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I'm wondering if any autopsy has been conducted at this point, and the whole thing will be blamed on the crew. This smells bad people, and the question is why.

Ok, perhaps something is getting lost in translation in the various news feeds.

Here, from our National Associated Press Agency (ANSA) which I found last night...

There are no signs of trauma on the bodies of lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda, both of whom died in the Bayesian shipwreck off the coast of Porticello on August 19.

As expected, the cause of death was drowning.

These are the first results of the autopsies performed at the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the Policlinico by Professor Antonella Argo appointed by the Termini Imerese prosecutor's office. The other two autopsies will be performed on Wednesday on the bodies of the president of the Morgan Stanley bank, Jonathan Bloomer, and his wife Anne Elizabeth Judith.

For the moment, due to difficulties in notifications, it has not yet been possible to assign the autopsies of the other three victims, Mike Lynch, the British magnate who had organized the boat trip, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, and the ship's cook, Recaldo Thomas.

Lawyer Morvillo and his wife died of suffocation by drowning and at the moment, pending laboratory tests, there are no other causes linked to death.

Ok, so labratory tests still need to come in...

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First, I strongly doubt any sort of a waterspout or downdraft type event... 

Ok, I've been reading that they now believe it to have been a Downburst, rather than a waterspout.

From: https://www.yachtingmonthly.com/news/tra...gate-98886

Italian prosecutors said they believed that a downburst had hit the ship, contradicting early reports of a tornado or waterspout. In a downburst, air shoots down from the base of the cloud producing wind speeds of more than 100 mph (160km/h) before spreading out unpredictably on hitting the surface.

Thunderstorms are reasonably common in Europe during the late summer and widespread low pressure in August is thought to have increased the severity of the storms.

The International Centre for Waterspout Research confirmed 18 waterspouts off the coast of Italy on 19 August.

Unusually warm seas may also have increased the severity of the storms, with the Mediterranean hitting a record high sea temperature of 28.9° on 15 August.

Also, a slight correction to one of my earlier posts:

It appears the Bayesian didn't have a true "Black Box", but an AIS transponder, equipped with GPS. So, all they can get from that are the movements of the ship before the equipment went dead.

So, from an Australian news source, I found this description of the ships last moments...

An AIS tracking system sends information from onboard boats to coastal stations, alerting officials to movement and distress.

As part of a probe into just how the luxury 184ft yacht toppled and plunged to the bottom of the sea, killing seven people, cops are analysing the data.

It revealed that at 3.50am on Monday the Bayesian began to shake “dangerously” during a fierce storm, Italian outlet Corriere reports.

Just minutes later at 3.59am the boat’s anchor gave way, with a source saying the data showed there was “no anchor left to hold”.

After the ferocious weather ripped away the boat’s mooring it was dragged some 358 metres through the water.

By 4am it had began to take on water and was plunged into a blackout, indicating that the waves had reached its generator or even engine room.