Tortoise
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Perhaps the stairway became blocked and they ended up there because there might have initially been an airpocket for a short window of time.
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Italy - Sailing yacht sank off Italian coast, 15 rescued, 7 missing, 19 August 2024
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Hannah Lynch's body 'was found on her own in yacht cabin'
Five others, including her father, were found in a separate compartment, reporters were told in Termini Imerese on Saturday morning.
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There is a photo of the staircase here (the inset). It could be that there were strong waters pouring in along the staircase and those who were found in the cabin just couldn't traverse the staircase - which would now have been laying sideways.
Bayesian yacht latest: Sicily authorities open manslaughter investigation after bodies of Hannah and Mike Lynch found
The prosecutor's office is at the very early stages of investigating a so-called "crime hypothesis" of culpable shipwreck and manslaughter.
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Italian authorities open manslaughter investigation into superyacht sinking
Authorities in Italy have opened a manslaughter investigation into the sinking of superyacht, the Bayesian, which killed seven people off the coast of Sicily earlier this week.
Announcing the probe, prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio said investigators found it was not the weather that caused the ship to sink, but was a result of the behavior of the crew and the way the boat was handled.
He added that the prosecutor’s office had “filed a dossier, at present against unknown persons, alleging the crime of negligent shipwreck and manslaughter.”
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The United Kingdom’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said it has deployed a team of four inspectors to Palermo which is conducting a preliminary assessment of the scene.
Meanwhile, the United Kingdom’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said it will deploy a team of four inspectors to Palermo to conduct a preliminary assessment of the scene.
RBM.
This was odd, went to read both of the CNN articles that Yahoo sourced, and neither seem to indicate the manslaughter charges ?
Reading Yahoo articles can sometimes be as 'iffy' as reading the Daily Mail for accuracy.
Imo
From the second CNN link black & white security video, it appeared that the Bayesian was anchored further off I'm not sure there was negligence, but I'm certain the families of the deceased want this thoroughly investigated, and why the other ships or yachts in the area were not capsized ?
They want answers and I can't say I blame them.
If it was indeed a 'black swan' event, a rare tornado/waterspout -- as described in my earlier post -- there may not have been time to avert disaster ?
We'll see.
Omo.
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Oh, this is awful, that poor child. My heart goes out to her mom and her sister.
I still am not clear on if there was a chance to try to use the second lifeboat? Or if there were safety drills by crew and also with passengers? Glad that lives were saved but that so many were crew is startling. I had kind of hope that many of the deceased may have been sleeping but does not sound that way. It's a shame that with the forecast storm there was not preparation and that passengers were not summoned to the deck and supplied with life jackets. It's not clear to me that there were enough since the boat seemed over occupied?
Horrible and seemingly potentially avoidable tragedy. MOOO.