The £30,000,000 Bayesian superyacht was ‘like a beautiful hotel that was floating on water.’ The one-of-a-kind vessel was deemed ‘unsinkable’ by executives. On August 19, the Bayesian had set sail on a celebratory voyage after its owner’s, Mike Lynch, acquittal following a lengthy fraud trial in the US.
But jovial celebrations turned to disaster in stormy waters off the coast of Sicily , Italy, when the yacht plunged to the bottom of the ocean in just 16 minutes. Seven people died that night aboard the luxury boat, including Mr Lynch and his daughter, Hannah Lynch , while a nearby sailboat survived the storm largely unscathed. Here, Metro takes a look at what exactly went wrong that night amid Swirling Sicilian gales.
Nothing but darkness and screaming The Bayesian chugged into the cove off the coast of Poritcello at around 9pm on August 19, dropping its anchor about half a mile off the coast to begin celebrations half an hour later. At midnight, the Italian Coast Guard issued a warning that a serious storm was expected to hit, in which winds could reach speeds of 46mph. Experienced local fisherman who had planned to head out to sea that Sunday cancelled their plans, though the superyacht remained anchored through the storm.
Matteo Cannia, a 78-year-old fisherman, had been sat out on a bench till around midnight overlooking the Italian waters – it was too hot to sleep. He told the BBC: ‘I heard the thunder and the wind and decided to go home. ‘As the storm gr.
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