Dead or on the lamb?

[ArMaP]

So, there's another 9 minutes on top of the 16 minutes for passengers to escape.

No, those 9 minutes are part of the 16 minutes (according to the AIS system).

I found a site (in Italian) that has the timeline.

Gli ultimi 16 minuti del Bayesian, la mappa del naufragio

3:50 am: the waterspout and the swinging sailing ship
In the AIS track, the critical time arrives at 3:50 am on the night between Sunday and Monday. The storm is powerful, the wind rises impetuously, the Bayesian begins to sway dangerously. The tracking system shows an area that graphically resembles a child's scribble on a sheet of paper: it is the sailing ship that moves back and forth, then sideways, then forward again and back again.

3:59 am: the anchor has now given way
Those signs scribbled on the sheet of paper say that the yacht was like a dog on a chain, tied to the anchor and unable to escape from danger. But after a few minutes "you can see that there is no anchor left to hold", interprets an investigating source.

The anchor no longer holds, the boat is free but is not in a condition to stand up to the wind that forces it to follow its path. At 3:59 a significant change of direction, again dictated by the wind.

4:00 am, the blackout: the yacht is already taking on water
It is likely that at this point the sailing vessel begins to take on so much water that it becomes unmanageable; it is now at the mercy of the storm and in blackout, a sign that the water has reached the generator area or the engine room.

4:05 am: the Bayesian sinks
From here to the end there are another 6 minutes. At 4:03 a new slight change to the route, at 4:05 the Bayesian disappears, after having "leeched" a total of 358 meters.

A few moments later (and it is 4:06 am) its "EPIRB", a sort of GPS that acts as an emergency device, automatically sends the alarm for the sinking to the "Cospas Sarsat" satellite station in Bari, managed by the Coast Guard.

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Not to mention that point that was made about the furniture getting tossed around. How would a person know the difference between getting hit over the head and a loose chair getting flung around.

The energy used is different, a loose chair does not keep the movement before hitting because it doesn't have enough energy, when hitting someone on purpose with something (even a chair), the energy used is bigger and the movement of the chair is done in a way to make it go through the head.

I'm sure an experienced doctor would know the difference.