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The 16 minutes that plunged the Bayesian yacht into a deadly spiral
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0l8kj1p0yloThe 16 minutes that plunged the Bayesian yacht into a deadly spiral
9 hours ago
Mark Lowen
Italy correspondent, BBC News, reporting from Porticello
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How the super yacht sank so quickly while other smaller vessels nearby survived the storm undamaged has dumbfounded experts.
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In a press conference this weekend – the first public statement by officials since the disaster – local prosecutors said they had begun an investigation into potential crimes of manslaughter and negligent shipwreck.
The region’s state prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio told reporters that while the probe was at a very early stage and nobody specific was being investigated, there were “many possibilities for culpability. It could be just the captain. It could be the whole crew… we are absolutely not ruling anything out”.
[...]
Prosecutors said that they now believed a downburst was the weather phenomenon that hit the ship: a localised, powerful wind that descends from a thunderstorm and spreads unpredictably.
[...]
9 hours ago
Mark Lowen
Italy correspondent, BBC News, reporting from Porticello
[...]
How the super yacht sank so quickly while other smaller vessels nearby survived the storm undamaged has dumbfounded experts.
[...]
In a press conference this weekend – the first public statement by officials since the disaster – local prosecutors said they had begun an investigation into potential crimes of manslaughter and negligent shipwreck.
The region’s state prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio told reporters that while the probe was at a very early stage and nobody specific was being investigated, there were “many possibilities for culpability. It could be just the captain. It could be the whole crew… we are absolutely not ruling anything out”.
[...]
Prosecutors said that they now believed a downburst was the weather phenomenon that hit the ship: a localised, powerful wind that descends from a thunderstorm and spreads unpredictably.
[...]