The former commander of the Bayesian
said Tuesday British tech tycoon Mike Lynch's superyacht was
"beyond operational limits" when it sank in a freak storm
killing Lynch and six others near Palermo last Monday.
The hatch on the port side was "100 per cent not open"; with a
45-degree angle and the engine room vents open, the boat can
have "serious problems" and "start taking on water"; there was
no requirement to keep the centreboard down; with a sudden
change in the weather conditions, the crew had a "short time to
react" said the ex skipper, Stephen Edwards, in a post on
Linkedin.
Off the coast of Porticiello, added the man who commanded the
sailing ship from 2015 to 2020, the Bayesian went "beyond its
operational limits" when it was hit by an extreme-weather event
called a downburst.
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