His business partner and co-defendant was killed the same day. The world is a scary place.
A little divine justice?
Don’t go chasing waterspouts...
Again?
I just do not see how a roughly a 184 foot sailing vessel sinks in a storm a kilometer from shore.
I understand that it literally got hit by a water spout/small tornado. I also understand that the water there is about 160’ deep(50 meters).
I can understand it blowing over on it side. That has happened many times to sailboats in micro bursts. What I do no understand is why a vessel with a heavy lead keel did not right itself. Then remain floating because of the air trapped inside the hull is still lighter than the water around it.
Incompetent crew or the crew was overruled by Lynch.
You always have your eye on the weather and try to stay out of its way.
I have to think that there was ample warning of bad weather coming.
Either they were not watching weather reports or they ignored them.
Either it was negligence or willful disregard of safety.
The ship had a retractable keel. At anchor it is customary to retract the keel for comfort and less noise. This made the boat unstable in high winds (Other boats in area survived) There was no indication of a storm approaching on weather forecasts.High winds hit the extremely tall mast and the boat capsized and sank in 12 minutes.
In the fwiw department, Mike Lynch fullback for the Tampa Bay Bucs was not killed in this tragedy
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Wait, he’s not alive on a secret island paradise somewhere?
If I learned any from Matt Damon, he will resurface along the southern coast of France and haunt the CIA for many years.
But this guy is supposed to be Brit, so maybe its M6 that needs to be worried?