Articles regarding the super sailing yacht BAYESIAN sinking awful accident published on Tuesday 20th August after our Italian Team Members arrived on site – https://maltashipphotos.com/casualties-super-sailing-yacht-bayesian-sinks-after-storm-with-fatalities-19-08-2024/
Update 1 published on Wednesday 21st August with 5 Bodies found – https://maltashipphotos.com/casualties-update-1-of-super-sailing-yacht-bayesian-sinking-21-08-2024/
With 5 bodies found of which the 5th one (Male) was retrieved in the morning the search operation have entered their fourth day today Thursday 22nd August, 2024.
Guardia Costiera equipped with Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) are being used, with both Vigili Del Fuoco (VVF) and Guardia Di Finanza (GDF)naval units and cave divers also taking part in the search.
The bodies are being taken to mortuaries with ambulances escorted by Police for formal identification and post-mortems.
Investigators questioned the New Zealand Captain James Catfield for two hours. There are huge questions over whether he took necessary measures amid weather warnings, before a violent storm that prompted a waterspout and led the vessel to capsize within minutes.
According to Giovanni Costantino, CEO of The Italian Sea Group, which owns Perini Navi – the company who built the BAYESIAN as the Project C.2095 named SALUTE with aluminium hull told Italian News Portal Corriere della Sera that there was a very long list of errors including –
- the yacht shouldn’t have been at anchor
- the stern hatch was clearly open
- the ship’s keel – the blade sticking into the water from underneath – should have been lowered
- people shouldn’t have been in the cabins
- the crew should have known about the incoming storm
“Ask yourself,” he says. “Why were no fishermen from Porticello out that night? A fisherman reads the weather conditions and a ship doesn’t?
“The storm was in all the weather charts. It couldn’t have been ignored.”
Costantino says the sinking could have been avoided. It is good practice, he says, to have a guard (Navigation Watch) on the bridge when a ship is anchored.
A guard would have seen the storm coming and the necessary measures would have been taken, he adds.
Around 1000 hrs Guardia Costiera confirmed that all Male Bodies were found and retrieved with the confirmation from an Interior Ministry Official Massimo Mariani, that the last body was of Mike Lynch (later on around 1300 hrs) and the 6th missing had to be a female believed to be his 18 yo Daughter Hannah.
British technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch considered selling his superyacht, BAYESIAN in the months leading up to the deadly trip to Sicily, it has been revealed.
Malta Ship Photos & Action Photos (MSPAP) together with our Italian Team Members and Malta Ship News will continue to monitor this situation as always and update you further……..
