From our media this morning a manslaughter investigation has begun. I hope the skipper has any assets he owns moved out of reach of the courts.
Quelle surprise.
As I mentioned above, putting a manslaughter prosecution on the table appears to be automatic in Italy. The only variable seems to be who they charge. In the Senna death they charged executives of his team and the head of the firm that managed the race course. Not like other countries where involving law enforcement is an indication that some criminality (including criminal negligence) was suspected.
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They got maxwell back
Is it? You’d need 9 shots of chain in 50m of water. Did it have that much?
The details of the Bayesian underwater hull with its “lifting fin and bulb keel” is of interest. I assume you only drop the keel to full draft (>7 m .) when sailing and pull it up when entering ports (<3 m draft), etc. But stability would not have been a problem. The problem is the loss of buoyancy and how it came about. Is the hull intact at the bottom of the sea?
That mast
Probably hit by a low flying chopper full of Paparazzi
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Latest from BBC World News, (ncl. press conference):
PS> I watched some of the press conference live. It was not very informative.
The usual uninformed questions from the press and long winded answer in rapid fired Italian, translated in a few words by the simultaneous translator.
Ships routinely anchor in 100 meters, off Fujairah for example. Puget Sound has anchorages over 100 meters.
Can’t get recommended scope, have to keep a good eye on the weather.
Good article from gcaptain:
Waterspouts are not uncommon in Italy during the late summer, driven by warm Mediterranean waters. Italy experiences more than 100 “tornadic events” a year, said Andrew Pedrini, a meteorologist at forecaster Atmospheric G2
The sinking of this yacht with the loss of 6 lives has got a lot of media attention and speculation here on the forum.
Not much media attention, or speculation here when it is an ordinary cargo ship that sinks and the dead or missing people are ordinary seamen.
Here is a case where BBC reported about a ship that sunk off Taiwan last month:
PS> Six people died in this incident that was at most getting a few lines in reports about the Typhoon Gaemi in the media.
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I think you forgot to mention wealthy and white skinned as well.
The media is more interested in feeding the collective schadenfreude of society. A multimillion dollar sailing yacht with billionaires onboard fits that bill a lot more than a lowly cargo ship. I am not defending it. It is just reality.
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Seeing some articles now reporting the high winds may have been a downburst.
I’ll leave to others looking for who’s to blame. Just as an observation, regardless if it was a waterspout or a downburst a capsize is a low probability / high consequence event. The mitigating action is to maintain watertight integrity.
Lots of vessels have gone down because something was left open that shouldn’t have.
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A picture shot sometimes less than six hours before the catastrophe, taken from the shore.
The two involved yachts at anchor, the sunken ‘Bayesian’ and the Good Samaritan, the topsail schooner ‘Sir Robert Baden Powell’.
That evening, Full Moon was at 18:25 UTC…
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Do my eyes lie or is it the photo?
Is that a red light at the masthead?
Maybe someone left a sailing light on instead of anchor light.
Yes, there is a faint reddish light on the masthead.
The reason for the sinking? Hardly, but always a reason to ‘see’ the poor functioning of the crew…
Or is it just the moonlight that makes the red cladding glow?
From the Guardian
Yacht was hit by downburst, say officials
The Bayesian is believed to have capsized after being hit by a downburst amid a storm, officials have said.
Downbursts are meteorological phenomena in which a powerful winds descends from a thunderstorm and spreads out quickly from its area of impact.
Mr Cammarano told the press conference that “from the information we have, it is a downburst we are talking about”.
On some military ships the highest lights, all-around red, are aircraft warning lights.
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I have had all round red at the masthead on past, large sail boats, at anchor in places with significant risk of aircraft. Anchored off e.g. St Trop, Monaco, Porto Cervo and similar where is a lot of helo traffic. But, more importantly, in out of the way places where the water-bombers scoop for the summer fires. It’s usually marked on charts, and when they are coming into your bay or anchorage there is often a Ch 16 call to back it up…
“Move, or we will move you!”
Nobody wants a Canadair 215T as a mast ornament.
Anywhere else, it’s just dick-waving.
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Have you considered that the red light is an aviation warning light due to the extraordinary mast height and the vessel’s routine mooring near shore and urban areas where aircraft operations (including helicopters) may be present?
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No, I did not!
Thanks for this.