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.
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Mean too. I only knew enough stats to pass the final!
[The boat was] renamed Bayesian, a reference to Bayesian inference, which was used in statistical machine learning by Lynch's company Autonomy Corporation.
184 feet and a single mast? I'd imagine those sails are/were not manageable without electric motors.
“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.
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.
*convinced me to drop the course
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