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Three on Bayesian superyacht crew officially under criminal suspicion — as divers start to recover vessel from the sea bed
NY Post ^ | 5/02/25 | Michael Kaplan, Fabrizio Scardovi

Posted on 05/03/2025 6:30:59 PM PDT by Libloather

Three crew members of the Bayesian superyacht are officially under investigation for crimes including negligence, recklessness and failing to save the ship from an oncoming storm, according to Italian prosecutors.

Captain James Cutfield, chief engineer Timothy Parker Eaton and deckhand Matthew Griffiths are in line to face criminal charges, according to the public prosecutor of Termini Imerese in Sicily, close to where the yacht sank amid a severe storm.

The potential charges were set out as rescue workers strive to raise the vessel, currently 50 meters (164 feet) below the surface, off the coast of Porticello.

Allegedly, “through negligence consisting of malpractice, recklessness and inexperience,” Griffiths, who was on the night watch at the time, “did not realize … that the boat had taken on water,” according to the prosecutor’s decree, obtained exclusively by The Post.

Griffiths and Eaton allegedly did not “promptly warn” Cutfield or “take measures to deal with the emergency,” while Cutfield did not notify passengers that there was “the danger of impending shipwreck,” according to the decree.

There were 10 crew members and 12 guests onboard the “unsinkable” ship — seven of whom died when it rapidly plunged to the bottom of the sea on the night of August 19, 2024, during a freak storm.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: History; Outdoors; Travel; Weather
KEYWORDS: 20240819; bayesian; criminal; fabrizioscardovi; hannah; hewlettpackard; italy; jamescutfield; matthewgriffiths; michaelkaplan; mikelynch; newyorkpost; porticello; sicily; superyacht; terminiimerese; timothyparkereaton; vessel
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21 posted on 05/03/2025 8:42:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Libloather
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22 posted on 05/03/2025 9:38:53 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Larry Lucido
"I feel like I know even less than before I looked it up."

Mean too. I only knew enough stats to pass the final!

23 posted on 05/03/2025 9:48:53 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Paladin2
Acccording to Wikipedia [links have been removed]:

[The boat was] renamed Bayesian, a reference to Bayesian inference, which was used in statistical machine learning by Lynch's company Autonomy Corporation.

24 posted on 05/04/2025 5:04:40 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: Libloather
Indeed.

184 feet and a single mast? I'd imagine those sails are/were not manageable without electric motors.

25 posted on 05/04/2025 5:08:14 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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To: Libloather

“Unsinkable”. Yes, the Titanic proved just how unsinkable boats and ships are.

A crew of 10 on that size of a boat? I do see the incompetence there. If there were water tight hatches and pumps to eject the water, it should have stayed afloat.


26 posted on 05/04/2025 5:20:24 AM PDT by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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27 posted on 05/04/2025 5:26:25 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I see what you did there. :-)

As I recall I did sign up for a statistics in sociology course and read the book How to Lie with Statistics. The book convicted drop the course and not bother. The book was hilarious, though, and I kept it.


28 posted on 05/04/2025 7:31:24 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Larry Lucido

*convinced me to drop the course


29 posted on 05/04/2025 7:32:00 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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