Posted on 09/13/2024 9:40:09 PM PDT by Red Badger
Italian special forces divers have recovered potentially crucial video equipment from the wreck of Mike Lynch’s superyacht, which could explain how it sank.
Seven people, including the British tech tycoon and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, died when the Bayesian sank in severe weather off the coast of Sicily last month.
The divers, from an Italian navy unit equivalent to Britain’s Special Boat Service, recovered video surveillance systems, computers and hard drives that will be sent to specialised labs, a source close to the investigation told Reuters.
It is hoped that, if the equipment was recovered intact, it may help investigators find out what happened on the night of the sinking.
It is believed the yacht was hit by a meteorological phenomenon known as a downburst, which can pack as much punch as a mini-tornado.
The six elite divers, deployed at the request of prosecutors who are investigating the sinking, are from a special forces unit called Comsubin. They used a hyperbaric chamber that allowed them to make repeated dives of up to 40 minutes.
The other victims of the Aug 19 tragedy were Recaldo Thomas, the ship’s Antiguan-Canadian chef, Jonathan Bloomer, the Morgan Stanley International bank chairman his wife Judy, and Chris Morvillo, a Clifford Chance lawyer, and his wife Neda.
Fifteen people, including Mr Lynch’s wife, survived the disaster and were rescued by a nearby yacht.
The bodies of the seven victims have now been flown back to their home countries by private jet, according to Italian media reports. Post-mortem examinations were conducted last week. The jet took off from Palermo airport, to the west of where the yacht went down, according to Il Giornale di Sicilia newspaper.
James Cutfield, 51, the New Zealand skipper of the Bayesian, is under investigation for multiple manslaughter and causing a deadly shipwreck, along with two British crew members: Tim Parker Eaton, 56, and Matthew Griffiths, 22.
Under the Italian legal system, being placed under investigation does not imply guilt and does not necessarily mean that charges will be brought.
The Bayesian will be raised and brought to shore as part of the investigation into how it sank within 16 minutes of being hit by the storm. It is lying at a depth of 165ft, around half a mile off the fishing town of Porticello.
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Don’t some here think he was murdered in a conspiracy?
Some people think a person being hit by lightning is a conspiracy.
Anytime a wealthy person dies unexpectedly that is always a suspicion................
Poor vessel design coupled with poor boat handling.
Mr. Lynch, through his company “Autonomy,” ripped Hewlett-Packard off for $9B, which was a complete write-off because the technology he “invented” was essentially worthless.
No small sum, that.
But is it worth multiple murders of innocents?...................
True but he and his business partner just won a lawsuit. The business partner gets hit by a car and killed and just a few days later his super yacht sinks in a storm killing him?
That’s ummm........some rather remarkable timing.
Lynch was a total piece of shite conman ... the UK press built him up as the next Bill Gates because they were desperate to have their own tech mogul ... until everything Lynch touched collapsed because none of his highly touted tech was actually worth a tinker’s damn ...
Agree. Why would you build a boat so top-heavy that it's prone to tipping over?
“ Poor vessel design coupled with poor boat handling.”
I thought they said a major door was left open during the storm.
Screen door on a submarine thing….
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