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  • Three on Bayesian superyacht crew officially under criminal suspicion — as divers start to recover vessel from the sea bed

    05/03/2025 6:30:59 PM PDT · by Libloather · 28 replies
    NY Post ^ | 5/02/25 | Michael Kaplan, Fabrizio Scardovi
    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...
  • Captain of Bayesian superyacht ‘investigated for manslaughter and shipwreck’

    08/26/2024 3:31:31 AM PDT · by protest1 · 35 replies
    The Daily Telegraph ^ | 26 August 2024 | Telegraph Reporters
    Captain James Cutfield, a 51-year old New Zealand national, is being investigated for manslaughter and shipwreck, the dailies La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera said. Magistrates spoke to Cutfield on Sunday for the second time in a week, la Repubblica reported, questioning him for more than two hours. It said prosecutors may also investigate a crew member who was on duty when the storm hit and survived the incident. ........... “The Bayesian was built to go to sea in any weather”, Franco Romani, a nautical architect that was part of the team that designed it told daily La Stampa in...