Days after seven people died in the sinking of the superyacht Bayesian off the coast of Sicily, Italian prosecutors suggested that the whole debacle could be a “human error”. The British yacht was carrying 22 passengers when it sank off the coast of Sicily on Monday. The ship sank after it was struck by a powerful type of wind called a downburst.
Seven people who died in the incident also included British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah. 15 others including Lynch’s wife survived the incident along with the yacht’s captain. On Saturday, Ambrogio Cartosio, the head of the prosecutor’s office in Termini Imerese, said in a press conference that his office has opened an initial investigation into manslaughter and negligent shipwreck.
“This tragedy would be even more heart-wrenching if our investigations were to prove that the sinking of the vessel was caused by actions not in accordance with the maritime code,” Cartosio said. in a press briefing. “We are only in the initial phase of the investigations .
.. At this stage, precisely because the investigation could develop in any way, we are absolutely not ruling anything out,” he furthered, making it clear that the investigation is not aimed at any single person.
The sleepy Italian port came to the centre of world news in just 16 minutes. So what happened within those 16 minutes? Let’s take a closer look. The 16-minute window Lynch was hosting a party with his friend on his luxury .