Dead or on the lamb?

[FlyingClayDisk]

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.

So, there's another 9 minutes on top of the 16 minutes for passengers to escape.  A vessel shaking "violently" enough to pull the anchor free is a pretty notable event, and not something which would go unnoticed.  Yet, everyone was seemingly happily asleep in their cabins???  I don't think so.  Flooding in the engine room is going to set off multiple alarms all over the boat.  What, no one heard any of these alarms?

358 meters of drift is nearly a quarter of a mile.  The crew would have been alerted to this, if by nothing else the Anchor Drag alarm would have been going off, which would have mobilized the entire crew (if they were worth even one shit). An anchor drag alarm will go off if the boat moves more than 50 meters.  This boat drifted 7x times that number.

There's just WAY too many things wrong with this whole story!

edit - The Bayesian weighed 543 tons.  Even with a 1,000 mile per hour wind (which is impossible in nature), a 543 ton vessel doesn't drift a quarter of a mile in a matter of seconds.  That much mass takes a while to get moving.  Plus, given the vessel was at anchor, the winds would have initially turned the vessel into the wind, thus only the cross-section of the bow would have been exposed to the winds (i.e. the most streamlined portion of the vessel).  Even after the vessel broke free from it's anchorage, it still would have been dragging anchor on the bottom, further slowing its drift.  And, if the anchor somehow broke free from the vessel altogether, then something was seriously defective in the vessel itself or the anchor assembly.  (I've hung up an anchor in a man-made reef one time (made of tires chained together) and damn near ripped the bow section of the boat out trying to free it.  Wound up having to use the stern cleats, and even then I couldn't get it free, so had to cut the line and abandon the anchor).  Anchors don't just magically come free from a vessel once set.  Dragging anchor is common, but again, the anchor is still there dragging across the bottom.

And despite all this maelstrom, beyond anything known to man...NO other vessels in the area were affected?  C'mon!!

Somebody wanted these people dead.