Questions remain unanswered about the causes of the maritime tragedy in Palermo, Italy that turned the luxury yacht Bayesian into a wet grave, killing seven people.
The yacht was hit by severe weather and according to Giovanni Constantino, chief executive of Italy’s Sea Group, which builds and sells pleasure boats, the maritime tragedy it may be due to a number of human errors.
“Why was the ship in this condition? The storm was predictable. We have to wonder why none of the fishermen in the port of Porticello went out to sea that night? Why didn’t anyone go out to sea? Everyone knew about the storm. And if even a fisherman knew, why the captain of such a ship, with guests of such level and importance, with 12 guests on board… Why was he not on alert?” Constantino asked Sky News.
He told the Financial Times it took 16 minutes from the time the wind “caught” the yacht and began dragging its anchor in Porticello harbor until it finally sank, enough time for the crew to warn passengers of the danger.
“The torture lasted 16 minutes. It sank not in a minute, as some scientists said. It sank in 16 minutes,” Costantino said. “You can see it from the maps, from the (Automatic Identification System) tracking map,” he added.
“The captain should have prepared the boat and put it on alert, just like the Sir Robert Baden Powell, which was moored 350 meters away, which was built in 1957 and handled the weather exceptionally well,” he said. Costantino.
The captain of the Sir Robert Baden Powell told Italian media that the weather conditions were unpredictable but his crew was prepared.
“Unsinkable such vessels”
The Bayesian is a luxury vessel that, Costantino said, was flawless in its design and construction and is “unsinkable.”
“A Perini vessel survived the Category 5 storm of Hurricane Katrina. Do you think one like that could not survive a tornado here?” he told the Corriere della Sera newspaper, referring to the type of tornado believed to have hit Bayesian.
The bodies recovered belong to British tech tycoon Michael Lynch, his daughter Hannah, Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Blumer, Lynch’s US lawyer and New York Clifford Chance partner Chris Morvillo and his wife Nedda , a jewelry designer in New York. It is recalled that the yacht’s chef, Ricardo Thomas, was found dead a few hours after the yacht sank. There is still one missing person, who is reported to be Judy Bloomer.
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