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JMO but I think the Captain is saying whatever his attorney is telling him he can say.
I expected that alcohol and drug testing would be done at the hospital as part of the investigation."Italian prosecutors have admitted they did not conduct alcohol and drug testing on the vessel's crew - all but one of whom survived - because they needed treatment and were in shock."
Superyacht sinking probe failed to give crew drink and drug tests
Six passengers - including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah - died alongside one member of the crew when the British-flagged pleasure yacht capsized on Monday.www.dailymail.co.uk
You would think so. He should have been ordering the crew to do the things that needed to be done. I'm thinking that if the hatches were closed as claimed, the boat would not be on the bottom of the water.
And then there are the engine room vents that experts (and us sleuthers here) have opined may have been open.
Welcome to this thread, @lonetraveler. Clearly you have a lot of personal experience and expertise to offer.
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I did a bit of research because I wanted to know if the yacht had a rear captain's cabin or a center place captain's cabin. This yacht had a center place captain's cabin.
See bolded by me above.And here is an interesting article that highlights the culture of blaming the crew, and also explains the polite struggle between a captain trying to keep things safe and the overriding authority of the boat owner. Just another perspective.
There have been suggestions that the crew did not prepare the yacht properly for such an event: Somebody should have been aware of the storm, people should not have been in their cabins, the yacht should not have been at anchor, someone should have been at watch, the skipper failed to lower the keel and to order all hatches to be closed. In other words: the boat would be fine, if it were not for the erratic behaviour of an unreliable crew on them. Safety problems are the result of a few bad apples in an otherwise safe system… sound familiar for those of us in commercial shipping?
We, the authors of this article, offer here our perspective on accidents and human error from an operator’s point of view ........
What can we learn from the sinking of the Bayesian? - Splash247
Captain Kuba Szymanski, secretary-general of InterManager and a keen sailor writes for Splash today along with Jan-Erik Kruse, a professional airline pilot and yachtsman, offering a viewpoint on this month’s high-profile superyacht tragedy off Sicily and the risks that come with blame culture...
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It's so obvious to me that the keel was not down, or else the boat would have been upright in the water, not on it's side. Even if the windows burst through during the storm, people could have sought safety in cabins that had closed hatches. IMO also, the anchor being down would negate the keel working to keep the boat upright.Mr Griffiths told investigators the captain had worked to help the passengers and crew to survive.
“We somehow got back up on the bridge and tried to make a human chain to rescue those who could get to the opening from the accommodation deck... they were walking up the walls because the boat was lying in the water,” Griffiths told Corriere della Sera, the Italian newspaper.
“The first one in the chain was the captain who reached down. He helped everybody, the women, the mum with the little girl... But we were sinking and unfortunately some didn’t make it.”
Captain and crew ‘formed human chain’ in attempt to save passengers on Bayesian
British sailor Matthew Griffiths told Italian media of desperate scramble to save those on board superyacht
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Bow first states to me that the anchor was off the bow part of the boat. JMOAn early Italian article said that the yacht sank bow first then settled on its starboard side. In other words, took a nose dive then rolled. Maybe pitched forward on the large swells? With water then rushing in through those shattered windows, making the boat front-heavy? Maybe that was the engineer's experience of the incident.
The "bow raised" sighting may not have been during the actual sinking. imo But more so a sighting of the boat pitching forwards and backwards on the swells.
L'inchiesta si allarga. Oggi l'interrogatorio del comandante James Cutfield, indagato per naufragio
Le nuove iscrizioni sarebbero un atto dovuto. Il primo ufficiale Tijs Koopman potrebbe finire nel registro degli indagati insieme a Cutfield. Ancora da chiarire la questione dei portelloni laterali e quale fosse la posizione della deriva
I tend to agree, @lonetraveler with my limited sailing yacht experience. The anchor down, keel up was not helpful. Did those cause the sinking? Could the crew have corrected those factors in time?
Started out sunny and warm with no warning about a storm coming in until we could actually see it coming at us very quickly. My very pregnant daughter and younger daughter was with us. I immediately sent them down into the cabin and locked all hatches. Pulled the anchor and lowered the keel. We tried to beat the storm to the inlet for safe harbor but that did not happen. We had anchored to fish a little bit. Now I'm so glad it was anchored so that we had time to walk about the sailboat and prepare for a storm. We tried to motor in and the boat was on it's side the entire time, I was hanging onto the lifelines to stay on the boat. Steering toward the inlet. The storm overran us and it was a real wild ride for a while. My daughters were screaming because the water was over the windows. We couldn't cut the engine because water would have came over the back of sailboat and swamp us. We made it into the inlet and then tried to stick it on a sandbar so that we would not collide with people's docks. Missed it by inches.
He's trying to put the tall mast at fault but without the keel down and the anchor up and hatches closed there was no way for the boat to not sink.
Right, IMO. I suspect the instability Borner witnessed was the physics at play with a very tall mast, a raised / partially raised keel, an anchor off the bow, as you suggest, and very violent winds he described.
