As ex mega yacht crew I don’t understand why there was anyone still in their cabins! In extreme weather we old timers made everyone sleep in the salon so there was no way anyone could be trapped below in cabins.. yacht safety 101..
So true, while on a sea exercise as a sea cadet we were ordered on decked as a storm broke and lashed down by rope on the hardtop of the galley, directly in front of bridge so captain could have eyes on and count every 15 minutes to ensure non of us 15 cadets had washed overboard. 9 hours in a Beaufort 11 perfect storm on a training tug boat . We survived😮
They can write a mystery movie script. Days before the sinking the billionaire owner’s partner dies in a car accident after winning the lawsuit against their company. The modern superyacht with its owner celebrating the lawsuit win sinks at anchor next to an old wooden yacht that survived the storm and rescued the survivors of superyacht.
Maybe wait for the MAIB report? No one knows a thing. Conspiratorial thinking is a coping mechanism for uncertainty. There’s nothing wrong with uncertainty in the absence of facts. Be calm.
Because it as a *wooden* yacht and it wasn't anchored unlike the anchored aluminium one *superyacht* geared with one of the tallest masts in the world.
Just to point out, neither the White Star Line or the ship builders yard ever said the Titanic was unsinkable. That quote came fron a newspaper who knew nothing about the ship.
@@keithwhite1478 The ship's builders, the White Star Line, and some of the promotional materials did describe the Titanic as having advanced safety features that made it "practically unsinkable." However, they never explicitly claimed that the ship was completely unsinkable. The phrase "unsinkable" was popularized by the press, particularly after the ship's sinking, to highlight the tragic irony... Because of the ironic claims made by the White Star Line in their promotional materials.
@@timschmitt7550 It makes the boat susceptible to all sorts of motion due to the extra surface. It isn't needed at anchor, usually, but this situation and result was different.
@@cjewe1z The billionaire victim on this boat was earlier sued by HP, along with his former partner. The later died first in a cycle accident and now the latter is allegedly dead. Not sure if his body has been recovered yet. HP lost the multi-billion pound case.
She went down in under 2 mins, open windows won't suffice to let in water that quickly. I think it capsized and did a full roll, during which the mast hit the seabed and thus exerted force on hull and decks, tearing open the upper deck, which caused the ship to fill up immediately.
This has the hallmark of human error, not having the retractable keel deployed. In a normal state, this would be a sound practice as she could easily rotate on it’s anchored position into the wind. If this storm hit as quickly as it did, I’d predict the keel deployment was over looked with everything else happening. Once she started heeling over it was probably too late to do anything. Just my old Kiwi opinion, 70 and been playing around with boats my whole life. RIP to all the souls lost. 🇳🇿🇨🇦
Sounds even more dangerous. Yep, guests don’t want to feel the yacht swinging at anchor. A bad seamanship decision, if she anchored fore and aft. Very sad.😢
USA -CIA and Businessmen in the US are a cooperation like any maffia organisation in the world... The Englishman had just won a juridical case about 8 billion dollars... The same day this boat sunk, his financial adviser was found dead by a car ''incident''... We are not fools.
The crew mostly got out the guests mostly drowned, something wrong here ! It was a mistake to retract the keel because this raises the centre of gravity so once the yacht heels away from vertical the leverage of the mast increases exponentially with each degree of list and there is no chance of recovery once water starts entering the yacht from open doors. When the mast hits water it hits with a tremendous crash and then the lights go out, the floor becomes the wall and sheer panic overwhelms the poor sods trapped below decks. It is common to retract swinging keels on yachts because the swinging action on bearings can cause a deep rumble that reverberates throughout the yacht which hampers sleep for guests, the crew soon get used to this rumble but when bad weather is due, the keel must be fully lowered no matter what guests say.
It wasn’t a waterspout that sank yacht, it was something that is known as a downburst where strong gusts of wind that blows out of a thunderstorm along with very heavy rain.
Having seen the force of these twisters in our area, I’m not surprised. Our area is not known for twisters but we got one through here that touched down and cut a path through bush land. 100’s of mature eucalyptus trees were laid flat like match sticks many snapped off at ground level. So I’m not surprised the mast snapped off. If the boat was in the middle of one of these at the height of its power it would just pick the boat up and turn it upside down.
Normally most (at least fiberglass vessels) are built with floatation, which allows them to remain at the surface, even if capsized, and filled with water (not afloat, but submerged upto the deck). This is why one of the cardinal rules of safety at sea is "remain with the vessel", as the vessel is still at the surface. Why she sank and did not remain at the suface is a real mystery.
@@mariapilarme Yeah, it seems flotation normally applies to smaller boats (daysailers?). I found out that larger yachts don't normally have floatation.
While on a sea exercise as a sea cadet we were ordered on deck as a storm broke and lashed down by rope on the hardtop of the galley, directly in front of bridge so captain could have eyes on and count every 15 minutes to ensure non of us 15 cadets had washed overboard. 9 hours in a Beaufort 11 perfect storm on a training tug boat . We survived😮
The Bayesian is an extreme design that did not prioritize seaworthiness. Billionaire's hubris was the main design element and that is why it sunk. I can't imagine an ocean sailing yacht that can't survive a 90 degree knockdown.
It is possible that one of the furling headsails was left loosely furled and not secured properly and when the squall hit, partially unwound itself. This could have easily put the yacht on its beam ends. This would not sink the yacht by itself but it is more than likely that the lower cockpit doors were left wide open for the party, allowing the sea to flood the lower decks. The centreboard keel would almost certainly have been left raised as this is only lowered for sailing. I have seen this happen to several boats parked in marinas in my years of sailing around the Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand where strong winds are quite common.
Sounds like captains error may also be part of it. He wasn’t keeping close enough eye on the weather and the boat wasn’t prepared. Another boat right nearby survived by getting the motor going and creating stability via movement into the storm. Being stuck at anchor wouldn’t have good in this situation
Yes the captain said that he was surprised this weather so the engine maybe doesn't work and was lack of face wind position of the boat and of course maybe windows were opened
2 days before this his former CFO and co-defendant in the HP case was killed by a car while he was walking/jogging ....and the mrs of Lynch had just some light glass cuts on her foot...
He didn't die in a car crash on Saturday, this is a complete lie. He walked in the road on a blind corner several days before, he just passed away on Saturday.
There is diving apparatus able to support sustained deep dives. They do not appear to be in a hurry. A diver would tap the hull and listen for a response. One of the first things would be listening equipment. No definite report of what has been done and results. I'll say no more.
The local rescue drivers are only using compressed air limiting the bottom time. They need to use mixed diving gases and get a decompressing chamber for a longer bottom time to avoid the bends.
Microburst plus open hatches and windows. Knockdown -> mast pinned down --> slow recovery, long enough for too much water to fill the boat. Mast and hull are intact on the bottom. Doesn’t have to be waterspout related. Tornadic winds should have damaged the rig. Straight prolonged downward wind pressure is the only explanation. Witness (35 year sea captain) witness the yacht knocks flat (90 degrees) over, then “gone” .
Both Mike Lynch who died in this tragedy and his Business partner who died a few weeks ago after being run over by a car were very unfortunate and appear to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time ...
Superyachts these days surpass 110 meters and over 100 meters mast. She could also be an insurmountable insurance or ‘accident’ if all doors and windows left opened?
The yacht was anchored and the retractable keel was raised and it appeared that the crew didn’t notice the approaching storm on their radar or no one was standing watch, causing the ship to be pushed by the storm while dragging its anchor until the bow went under water then quickly listing to its side and sinking. The the 67 year old schooner that was used to pull the survivors from the water was Captained by a sailor with decades of experience, who took the proper precautions when the storm was was picked up by his radar. The Bayesian was tracked by its gps system and it shows the path it was pushed until it sank in about 30 meters of water.
It's good to see that English / Australian news anchors do not have to emaciate themselves to be competitive and get a job. Seems like a great lady here.
Why haven't the divers reported on the condition of the mast and the position of the keel. Two critical components to why this vessel...keeled over! and...Yes, an experienced crew member on duty at the time, observing the dramatic change in the weather, just might have had the training to lower the keel which in hindsight just might have given the vessel a fighting chance.
Why are the Italian coastguard divers using single 15 litre tanks not twins and stages? The reporter said it takes 1 min to ascend from 6 atmospheres (50m) 😂 wtf Lung over expansion injury and dcs for sure.
@@paulwood5803 Still have a decompression obligation to deal with. My guess is they're keeping the dives short to minimise this and not be faced with divers in the water doing deco stops if the weather turns foul again.
@@3beltwesty The vessel sank in over 160ft of water, so there should've been no need to move it to somewhere deeper. In any case, there obviously wasn't time...
The ship was anchored /sank in 50 meters of water .There was thus no need to retract the keel .Clearly there was no counterbalance to this massive mast and the investigation will almost certainly show the heavy keel was retracted.
They had the weighted lift Keel raised up to go into shallower water. So radically easier to flip over in a tornado or giant gust. So drew it only 13 ft instead of 32 ft.. With a raised keel the stability is way less. ie there is way less torque to roll it over. My Dad was a Naval Architect and graduated from the University of Michigan.
A bit of hubris to have such a tall mast (look ,mine's bigger) echoes of Titanic (hubris in claiming unsinkable) or the Oceangate (hubris in making from carbon fibre)
In such cases, in order to counteract the strong effect of the wind and not drift, the engines are started and the bow is turned against the wind. They endured a storm/small tornado for exactly 16 minutes. Most likely, the ship (boats longer than 24 meters are called ships) turned around itself approximately 180° and the ship's propeller got tangled in the anchor chain. Therefore, structural damage occurred in the aft area where the garage and engine room are located, causing a large leak, the ship started taking in water at this point. Perhaps the bulb keel also broke and a 56-meter ship sank in 60 seconds. Nothing happened to the Dutch flagged ship that was about 200 meters next to it. Strong ships of this type can only be sunk by submarine torpedoes.
Perhaps lightning struck the yacht, causing the mast to collapse, which then destroyed the keel or mast step. This structural failure compromised the vessel's integrity, allowing seawater to flood in at an alarming rate, leading to a rapid sinking?
My opinion is the mast height was a stupid design idea. A retractable keel? Guaranteed the keel should have been DOWN! Over confidence in a boat design as “unsinkable”. So was the Titanic!
Exactly it makes an isosceles triangle, without the keel the center of gravity it’s above water level. It looks very unstable. I am not a boat builder but I know the center of gravity has to be lower.
What was such a yacht doing in such a storm? Weren’t any weather warning from the coastguard ? If we were talking about a freak wave that appeared out of nowhere then yes this is a black swan event that can happen out of nowhere. But a storm of such proportions should have given some sort of warning to the meteo centres. In any case it’s an unbelievable tragedy. So many people lost their lives. Terrible 😢
Interesting the yacht is resting 50 meters below, if she was resting on her keel, the masts would extend 25 meters or 82 feet above the water. I'm curious if it is resting upside down or on her keel.
Divers say hull and mast fully intact, lying on it's side. Video from shore shows it going over to 45⁰ before rain blocks the view, gone in about two minutes. Looking very much like keel up, blown over, lots of openings.
The sails would be down in a storm. Therefore a storm would not affect the mast with no sail on it as very little force on it compared to it sailing with the sail up.
The lateral external force (wind force and wave drift force) overturned the vessel Hull beyond its angle of vanishing stability/downflooding angle pushing its righting arm from positive to negative with the keel raised, the opposing resistance to overturning, the hull stood no chance. At this point the Hull will have violently rotated i.e. pulling the Hull from upright to beyond 90 degrees position. Watertight openings may have been left opened, hence the foundering. The huge mast may have never been subjected to modelled wind forces for tornado strength winds. Certainly for hurricane force winds possibly to a 100 year return period, but not Water Spout force. As always will be chain of events, including human error. This yacht broke free from anchorage and due to waterplane shape vessel will have drifted perpendicular to wind/waves. The vessel drifted 358 metres.
snapped mast wouldnt be cut off clean, it would still be attached to the hull with the rigging and cabling. it would act as a storm anchor. The vessel would be blown sideways, the mast dragging trough the water would tilt the vessel, making it capsize...low atmospheric pressure in the spout (650mb?) could easily dislodge and suck out panoramic windows of the yacht too.
The mast was too tall and it caused the whole boat to keel over. It was a hot night and people were sleeping on the deck, and apparently the crew had left some of the doors open. The boat capsized, flooded, sank. Tragic.
Better question is..... why did the yacht sink AND his co defendant get fatally hit by a car in the same 48 hours. I dont believe in coincidences of this sort.
