'Indescribable' crew errors led to Sicily shipwreck, yacht maker says
By Matteo Negri
MILAN, Aug 22 (Reuters) -A series of "indescribable, unreasonable errors" by the crew led to the shipwreck in which British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and six others died earlier this week, the yacht manufacturer's CEO told Reuterson Thursday.
The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre-long (184-foot) superyacht with 22 people aboard - 12 passengers and 10 crew - capsized and sank on Monday within minutes of being hit by a pre-dawn storm while anchored off the coast of northern Sicily.
"The boat suffered a series of indescribable, unreasonable errors, the impossible happened on that boat ... but it went down because it took on water. From where, the investigators will tell," Giovanni Costantino said in an interview.
Costantino helms The Italian Sea Group TISGR.MI, which includes Perini Navi, the Italian high-end yacht maker that built the Bayesian in 2008. The vessel has been refitted twice, last in 2020, but not by Perini.
The CEO ruled out any design or construction errors, which he calledunlikely after 16 years of trouble-free navigation, including in more severe weather than on Monday.
He blamed the Bayesian's crew for the "incredible mistake" ofnot being prepared for the storm, whichhad been announced in shipping forecasts. "This is the mistake that cries out for vengeance," he said.
Costantino said passengers should have been summoned out of their cabins and assembled ata point of safety while the boat was beingprepared for the storm bypulling up the anchor, closing doors and hatches, lowering the keel to increase stability and other measures.
Six out of 12 passengers died in the shipwreck, and five bodies were found inside the wreck. Emergency services are still trying to locate the body of the last missing person, Lynch's daughter Hannah.
Had correct procedures been followed, all passengers would have gone back to sleep after one hour "and the next morning they would have happily resumed their wonderful cruise," Costantino said.
Another yacht anchored near the Bayesian escaped unharmed. The captain of the sunken yacht and other crew members have not commented publicly on the disaster, while Italian prosecutors investigating it are due to hold a press conference on Saturday.
Reporting by Matteo Negri; Writing by Alvise Armellini; Editing by Richard Chang
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