Italy - Sailing yacht sank off Italian coast, 15 rescued, 7 missing, 19 August 2024

[Alyce]

The Chief of Civil Protection later confirmed the bodies had been identified as Mr Lynch and his daughter Hannah, before announcing that two more bodies have been found and are about to be recovered by divers

Bodies of Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah found in sunken yacht

Search teams made the tragic discovery today while scouring through the wreckage of the Bayesian, which sank off the coast of Sicily after being hit by a 'black swan' waterspout.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[PrairieWind]

I don’t really understand how air pockets work in a completely submerged vessel. Unless there’s a watertight room, or a section that’s still above the water level, surely the whole boat is going to quickly get full of water?

I would think there would be quite a few small air pockets that form in a capsized and submerged vessel. But they would be fairly small, and it is totally dark. So the chances of a person finding one would be small. And even if they did, it is still totally dark, the air pocket is small and the oxygen would be depleted pretty quickly. Personally, I don't think anyone on this boat survived in an air pocket for more than an hour or so if they were able to find one.

 

[Hygge]

“Firefighters divers discovered four bodies in the sunken luxury yacht called Bayesian. Two of them, a woman and a man, could be recovered until the early evening. According to media reports, it is probably the British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter.”

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“Hatch open, sword pulled in​

Thus, hatches and portholes were open, which allowed large amounts of water to enter in a short time. In addition, the movable sword of the ship still at anchor, which provides stability, was apparently not extended. So the ship sank in a few minutes.”

„Bayesian": Warum die Yacht vor Sizilien so schnell sank

Rettungskräfte haben mehrere Leichen aus der gesunkenen Luxusyacht geborgen, darunter offenbar auch die des Unternehmers Lynch. Und es gibt neue Hinweise zum möglichen Hergang der Tragödie.

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It’s all so very sad.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Bodies found inside luxury yacht that sank off Sicily

The discovery follows a rescue operation off the Italian coast where British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and others were believed trapped in the hull of the Bayesian luxury sailboat.

www.nbcnews.com

PORTICELLO, Sicily — Divers recovered four bodies Wednesday from inside a superyacht that sank in a sudden storm off Sicily, Salvatore Cocina, director of the island's Civil Protection Agency, confirmed to NBC News. Two passengers remain missing.

Cocina did not say whose bodies were found, but the discovery follows a dayslong search in the deep seas off the Italian coast where British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and several others were believed trapped in the luxury sailboat's hull. Fifteen of the 22 people aboard survived.

The rest had been missing since early Monday, when the Bayesian was caught in the storm while anchored off the coast of Porticello, a village near the Sicilian capital city of Palermo...

 

[Ruthbullock]

Bayesian’s captain grilled for two hours as probe reveals ‘key mistake’

CAPTAIN of the doomed Bayesian superyacht James Cutfield was grilled by cops for over two hours as rescuers have discovered a possibly fatal mistake made onboard. Divers found that the keel, a cruc…

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[IQuestion]

"Even with no sails up, a boat with a tall mast has a lot of “windage”, or surface area exposed to the wind, that can tip the vessel over in a storm."

 

[mickey2942]

Pictured: Liferaft which saved up to 15 people from sinking superyacht

The small craft, which saved the lives of those stranded in the water when it self-inflated as the boat went down, has been left floating in the harbour at Porticello near Palermo.

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All crew members, except for the chef made it off the yacht alive. Which is why I don't travel any longer in a ship. When it is "Every man for himself", passengers are not going to be woken up...too bad.

 

[Ruthbullock]

Tornadoes and waterspouts: Europe's underestimated extreme weather threat?

Spinning over water and land, these terrifying phenomena are more common than we might think

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[Ruthbullock]

Pictured: Liferaft which saved up to 15 people from sinking superyacht

The small craft, which saved the lives of those stranded in the water when it self-inflated as the boat went down, has been left floating in the harbour at Porticello near Palermo.

www.dailymail.co.uk

All crew members, except for the chef made it off the yacht alive. Which is why I don't travel any longer in a ship. When it is "Every man for himself", passengers are not going to be woken up...too bad.

The chef will have been done for the day- getting ready for his breakfast schedule by sleeping- everything else is left to the rest of the crew, including some of the deck crew being on observation all night. One of the crew activated the life raft, which saved many lives including passengers who had gone to bed. They survived as they were awake and still working to get ready for the following day

 

[bmacmillan1]

All TV

Pictured: Liferaft which saved up to 15 people from sinking superyacht

The small craft, which saved the lives of those stranded in the water when it self-inflated as the boat went down, has been left floating in the harbour at Porticello near Palermo.

www.dailymail.co.uk

All crew members, except for the chef made it off the yacht alive. Which is why I don't travel any longer in a ship. When it is "Every man for himself", passengers are not going to be woken up...too ba

Pictured: Liferaft which saved up to 15 people from sinking superyacht

The small craft, which saved the lives of those stranded in the water when it self-inflated as the boat went down, has been left floating in the harbour at Porticello near Palermo.

www.dailymail.co.uk

All crew members, except for the chef made it off the yacht alive. Which is why I don't travel any longer in a ship. When it is "Every man for himself", passengers are not going to be woken up...too bad.

What about the 'written or unwritten rule' that the Captain is supposed to stay onboard until the last? Just puzzled

 

[Ruthbullock]

The chef will have been done for the day- getting ready for his breakfast schedule by sleeping- everything else is left to the rest of the crew, including some of the deck crew being on observation all night. One of the crew activated the life raft, which saved many lives including passengers who had gone to bed. They survived as they were awake and still working to get ready for the following day

Let us not assume these were selfish actions, even with the best of efforts the outcome may well have been the same due to passengers being trapped. Having seen a floor plan (there was a master suite and another bedroom), some passengers who you would not assume are in cabins together seem to have escaped (and at least one the mother and baby were in bed). The wife could have still been up and in the lounge, leaving her husband and daughter asleep in the master suite.

 

[bmacmillan1]

Dbm

 

[Ruthbullock]

All TV



What about the 'written or unwritten rule' that the Captain is supposed to stay onboard until the last? Just puzzled

Doesn’t apply in Italy- the precedent was set by Concordia

 

[Dotta]

Doesn’t apply in Italy- the precedent was set by Concordia

"Abandoning a ship in distress may be considered a crime that can lead to imprisonment.

Captain Francesco Schettino, who left his ship in the midst of the Costa Concordia disaster of 2012,
was not only widely reviled for his actions,
but received a 16-year sentence including one year for abandoning his passengers.

Abandoning ship has been recorded as a maritime crime for centuries in Spain, Greece, and Italy."

By the way,
this captain is not Italian.

The captain goes down with the ship - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Tortoise]

Let us not assume these were selfish actions, even with the best of efforts the outcome may well have been the same due to passengers being trapped. Having seen a floor plan (there was a master suite and another bedroom), some passengers who you would not assume are in cabins together seem to have escaped (and at least one the mother and baby were in bed). The wife could have still been up and in the lounge, leaving her husband and daughter asleep in the master suite.

The mother and her baby were sleeping up on the deck.

Speaking to Sky News correspondent Ashna Hurynag, the head of paediatric care at the Di Cristina Children's Hospital in Palermo said Ms Golunski was away from her partner at the time of the storm.

"She said that she was sleeping with the child on deck while her husband was a little further away in another part of the boat and she felt the oscillations of the ship," Dr Domenico Cipolla said.

Hero mum slept with baby on deck when storm sank yacht, doctor claims

 

[Tortoise]

Search and recovery operation will resume tomorrow - Italian authorities​

19:38 BST​

The search operation in Porticello has finished for the day and will resume tomorrow, the head of Sicily's civil protection agency has told the PA news agency.

Salvatore Cocina confirmed that five bodies have been found, but only four have been recovered from the water.

One person remains missing, Cocina adds.

Bayesian yacht live updates: Fifth body found in Sicily yacht wreck, after four bodies brought to shore

 

[Alyce]

Let us not assume these were selfish actions, even with the best of efforts the outcome may well have been the same due to passengers being trapped. Having seen a floor plan (there was a master suite and another bedroom), some passengers who you would not assume are in cabins together seem to have escaped (and at least one the mother and baby were in bed). The wife could have still been up and in the lounge, leaving her husband and daughter asleep in the master suite.

The woman with the baby was sleeping up on the deck, not in her cabin.

 

[Skigh]

Superyacht sinks latest: Fifth body found in search today - six people now confirmed dead

Five bodies have been found in the search for several people missing after a yacht sank off the Sicily coast, bringing the total number of dead to six. Search efforts are in their third day, after the captain was reportedly questioned by Italian prosecutors over the sinking.

news.sky.com

 

[Yellowbelly]

Bayesian’s captain grilled for two hours as probe reveals ‘key mistake’

CAPTAIN of the doomed Bayesian superyacht James Cutfield was grilled by cops for over two hours as rescuers have discovered a possibly fatal mistake made onboard. Divers found that the keel, a cruc…

www.thesun.co.uk

Were storms forecast for this area? If they were, how well prepared were the crew? What sort of watch was being kept on the bridge? If storms were forecast, anchoring with the keel up looks like a massive oversight.

Experts says guests on superyacht should have been given life jackets

The luxury sailboat was docked off the coast of Porticello, near Palermo, when a 'whirlwind' hit the area just before 5am on Monday morning. wrecking the boat and causing it to rapidly sink.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[vls12345]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/21/europe/bayesian-yacht-sicily-sinking-cctv-intl/index.html

"Angela Barcares, Mike Lynch’s wife, survived. Speaking to the Italian daily La Repubblica while sitting in a wheelchair in a Sicilian hospital, Bacares said she was woken at 4 a.m. local time as the boat tilted.

She said she and her husband were initially not concerned, but became worried when the windows of the yacht shattered."