Data collected from the black box of the luxury yacht Bayesian has offered dramatic insight into the final 16 minutes of the ship before it sank just off the coast of Palermo. Divers recovered the body of the final victim of the sinking – 18-year-old Hannah Lynch, the daughter of tycoon Mike Lynch – on Friday, five days after the ship was caught in a storm near the Italian island. The black box showed the Bayesian began to shake "dangerously" at approximately 3.
50 am on Monday morning, according to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. Within minutes, the yacht's anchor gave way. A source close to the investigation said the data had shown there was "no anchor left to hold," by 3.
59 am. After a storm ripped the Bayesian's mooring , the yacht was dragged through the water for some 358 metres and started taking in water at 4 am. By 4.
05 am, the superyacht had completely disappeared under the water with six passengers and one crew still inside. A distress signal was finally emitted a minute later alerting the Coast Guard station nearest to Ponticello, the closest coastal town to where the ship vanished. Witnesses initially reported seeing the Bayesian's 246ft tall mast being struck by a "tornado ," which authorities later clarified had been a waterspout.
Officials thought the incident had unravelled around 5 am but the AIS now appears to show it happened approximately an hour earlier. Eleven of the passengers managed to escape the yacht by scrambling into the inflatable life.