Among the bodies recovered were reportedly Mike Lynch and his daughter as questions intensified over why the vessel sank so quickly.
found the bodies of five of the six missing passengers as questions intensified about why the vessel sank so quickly when a nearby sailboat remained largely unscathed.
. Civil protection officials said they believed the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout, and sank quickly.Fifteen people escaped in a lifeboat and were rescued by a nearby sailboat. One body was recovered on Monday — that of the ship’s chef, Recaldo Thomas, of Antigua. “There’s a lot of uncertainty as to whether it had a lifting keel and whether it might have been up,” said Jean-Baptiste Souppez, a fellow of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects and the editor of the Journal of Sailing Technology. “But if it had, then that would reduce the amount of stability that the vessel had, and therefore made it easier for it to roll over on its side,” he said in an interview.
Yachts like the Bayesian are required to have watertight, sub-compartments that are specifically designed to prevent a rapid, catastrophic sinking even when some parts fill with water.“So for the vessel to sink, especially this fast, you are really looking at taking water on board very quickly, but also in a number of locations along the length of the vessel, which again indicates that it might have been rolled over on its side,” Souppez said.
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