Translated to English:
“From the analysis of the harrowing 16 minutes of that night, we believe that water entered through the rear hatch.” Giovanni Costantino, CEO of Italian Sea Group, which took over Perini, the company that built the Bayesian, the yacht that sank on August 19 off the coast of Porticello, is certain of this. The sailing vessel belonged to a company linked to the wife of British magnate Mike Lynch, one of the seven victims of the shipwreck.
The entrepreneur made this statement during the broadcast Cinque minuti, hosted by Bruno Vespa on RaiUno, airing tonight. “We believe,” he added, “that the typical actions of a crew to protect the people and the ship were not carried out. The ship should have been prepared by closing and sealing it. It was unsinkable. If water hadn’t entered that ship,” the CEO of Italian Sea Group explains, “it would have had no problem at all. The incoming storm was clearly visible and readable; it’s telling that fishermen understood the situation and didn’t go out to sea. Could a 700-ton ship remain at sea in such conditions? It’s not advisable, but it could. In fact, the small ship nearby was prepared to handle the situation; the larger, highly advanced ship suffered the consequences. Water undoubtedly began to enter from the stern, flooding not just one watertight compartment, but also the adjacent one, the engine room. When the wind picked up, the ship started to drift: a 14-minute journey in which it continued to take on water; stability was compromised, and the water reached the generators.”
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“Why was the crew unaware of the approaching storm?” asks the head of the company that took over the manufacturer of the Bayesian.
In those 16 minutes, not everyone was saved “probably because,” Costantino continues, “the crew did not coordinate, they were not adequately prepared, they were distracted and not ready to act, for various reasons they did not operate in the right way, in the right sequence, or with the necessary urgency. They didn’t consider the people below deck. They didn’t follow the right procedures, and seven people were trapped. The first 14 could have been saved if only an alarm had been raised.”
This reconstruction was denied by Commander James Cutfield, who was reached in Majorca and denied that the rear hatch was open. “No, no,” the captain replied to the journalist’s question.
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In the meantime, the Navy’s divers, the Comsubin, divers, and commandos have gone into action. They are working to recover the surveillance system and other devices on the vessel. All this material should help shed light on what happened during the 16 minutes before the sinking. Investigators continue to work to reconstruct what happened the night before the shipwreck. According to the investigation, there could not have been any party on board. Mike Lynch, the English magnate who personally managed the movements of the sailing vessel, had received news that night of the death of his friend Stephen Chamberlain, co-defendant in the fraud trial and acquitted along with the English magnate. The businessman was reportedly so shaken by the news that he decided to return home and cut the vacation short.
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. Should be standard training film for underwriters