World News: Mysterious Mega-Yacht Sinking Under Investigation
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- Category: World News - Europe
- Published on Sunday, 25 August 2024 11:07
- Written by Janet Walker
Italian officials have initiated a manslaughter investigation into the mysterious sinking of the mega-yacht Bayesian, a half mile offshore from the fishing village of Porticello, near Sicily, Italy, in a burst of violent weather, that killed seven passengers.
Weather cams, which have since become available online, show the yacht in the harbor with its mast still raised, even though common thought is to lower the mast in any storm that produces high winds, from microbursts to hurricanes, to stop the vessel from capsizing.
"Local officials confirmed that most of the bodies recovered were found in the same part of the yacht — on the left side and closer to the surface — suggesting that passengers had sought safety in the cabins where the last air bubbles had formed," reported APnews.com.
The British flagged Bayesian carried 22 guests and 10 crew. All ten crew members and 15 other guests, including a one-year-old girl, were rescued as the survivors, hampered by darkness, fought against high winds, incapacitating fear, and lack of knowledge of the yacht's safety equipment.
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Lynch, who had been accused of overinflating the value of his tech company, had just been acquitted after a ten-year legal battle, and the sailing vacation was intended to be a celebration. Lynch's co-defendant in the fraud case brought by Hewlett-Packard, Stephen Chamberlain, was struck by a car, and killed, one week before the death of Lynch.
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Janet Walker is the publisher, founder, and sole owner of Haute-Lifestyle.com. A graduate of New York University, she has been covering international news through the Beltway Insider, a weekly review of the nation’s top stories, for more than a decade. A general beat writer/reporter and entertainment/film critic, she is also an accomplished news/investigative news/crime reporter and submitted for Pulitzer Prize consideration "Cops Conspire to Deep Six Sex Assaults" in the Breaking News Category. Ms. Walker has completed five screenplays, "The Six Sides of Truth," "The Assassins of Fifth Avenue," "The Wednesday Killer," "The Manhattan Project," and the sci-fi thriller "Project 13: The Last Day." She is a member of the Los Angeles Press Club, the National Writers Union, and the International Federation of Journalists.
