Mike Lynch superyacht may have sunk after damage to sailing mast | Alina Trabattoni
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- The sinking of a yacht that left tycoon Mike Lynch missing at sea could have been partially caused by damage to the vessel's mast, Alina Trabattoni tells #timesradio
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"mast broke, unbalanced the boat" Seriously. If you've got no idea, say nothing. RIP those lost souls.
Local reports suggest a waterspout. A yacht without a mast is probably more stable with less above deck mass!
Right, cause the multi ton lead or iron keel would make sure it stays upright. Any sailor knows that!
Do you expect a political activist to understand what she's reading on an autocue?
Ships masts are always connected to the keel with earth straps in order to give protection against lightning.
@@spookyaction8917 Not a chance. Do you know how many tons of metal are in the keel of a yacht that big?
Bayesian measured 56.00 metres in length, with a max draft of 9.73 metres and a beam of 11.51 metres. She had a gross tonnage of 473 tonnes.
This was no little boat!
@@talbenavraham1478tu, I live and learn, respect
"The boat rocked".. and? Sailing boats dont go down from "rocking". Can we have some serious reporting?
If you believe the MSM narrative I have got a bridge I can sell you!!!
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His co-defendant dies a few days before, being hit by a car. Looks like he got the 'Anne Heche' style, clean up.
So he got off free from the court case $9 billion richer 3 weeks ago before this ‘tragedy’ happened AND coincidentally his co-defendant from the same case was also just killed in a hit & run yesterday ??? Yeah sure.They used to say lightening doesn’t strike twice - except when you make powerful enemies
Powerful enemies that can control the weather?
@@issimondias look up directed energy weapons such as the DragonFire Laser.
Not really it was a civil suit to come, HP was asking for 4B for damage. It was the criminal suit that got acquitted, not criminal responsibility but there was civil responsibility.
@@issimondiasExactly! See what that storm a day before did on the Balearic Islands most specific the island of Menorca torrential rains destroyed the island. People read too much into it. They should check the weather!
@@MariaM-up2he So what? They’re suddenly both d€ad now.
That announcer does no know what she is talking about. A broken mast would not 'unbalance' the boat and cause it to sink. That boat was close to 400 tons and had 32+ feet of draft so it had a BIG keel. My guess is if it was lightning and did not ground properly then it could have caused an explosion causing a catastrophic hull breech and a very fast sinking. I have heard of lightning that caused keelbolts to explode on smaller boats ending up with a keel dropping off and the boat flipping, but doubt that would be the end result on a boat of this size. I doubt a waterspout would have caused this boat to sink.
Well we shall see. I agree an unbalanced broken mast (!) would probably be a maritime first - never heard of that happening. But I do think a freak waterspout could have capsized her. If she was pointing in exactly the wrong direction when it hit. 32' draft - really? That's an exaggeration, right?
I would think the bonding would be really up to scratch for the spec of mast and electrics and the keel yes that’s the size of what most Yatch lengths are doubt the bolts would melt the studs unless dissimilar metals and saltwater corroded the keel to hull joint but good old sikaflex should keep it together
I agree, it would be hard to believe that a waterspout could capsize a ship that large! I think that there was an explosion and a catastrophic breech somewhere.
I think she failed O Level physics😂
I'm going with their paychecks bounced....... then stuff happened.
Tornado I heard..? Now it’s lightning…? And at the same time his co-defendant was hit by a car and died.
This is 100% a hit.
The grim reaper doesn't differentiate between rich and poor.
Is 'the Grime Reaper' one of those TV cleaning programmes?
So True!
But the news coverage certainly does!
@@SteveeCee😂
So him and his number 2 who just beat USA charges die within days, one run over, one in a tornado. Grim reaper must be american
Mast lightning strike does not sink a boat. De-masting does not sink a boat. There is no balance issue unless the keel broke off which is unlikely. I can only assume port holes and hatches were open when the yacht heeled over in the strong wind and enough water came in to sink it.
That is the most probable cause I read, everyone is blaming the mast.
There is balance issue when the keel is lifted; the center of gravity changes. The mast was higher than the sailboat was long, which could have caught more wind than normal. It was 5am, so not sure the likelihood of something being open.
Having stated that, here's an updated video with AIS and time information:
ruclips.net/video/yF5UduROOFY/видео.html
Sailing masts are designed to get hit by lighting and are hit every day around the world without problems.
If the mast wasn't properly "grounded" to the sea, couldn't the lighting cause a massive whole, causing it sink quickly ?
As a sailor, I have alreaady heard of this sort of situation. Thanks.
Such a fast sinking for such a large and modern sailboat at anchor. I can't wait to learn what actually happened instead of what the crystal ball experts are chatting about.
google his case with Hewlett Packard (yes the printers copmpany) his codefedant in the case magically died in a car crash saturday too...
It’s a water spout and storms have claimed the lives of many in the Med. in 255 BC the Roman fleet was caught in a storm off southern Sicily sinking 384 ships and 100,000 sailors. Google it. To claim a water spout as rare is a joke
Nelson suffered the worst storm of his life near that area in December 1798 when evacuating the Neapolitan royal family from Naples to Palermo, fleeing from revolutionary Napoleonic troops. The King's infant son died of sea-sickness in the arms of Lady Hamilton, who was one of the only passengers to have remained strong, best of British and all that, kept up the spirits of the Neapolitans .
So you do seriously compare 255 BCE rudimentary ships to present day state-of-the-art megayachts? That is a laughable 😂
@@frankthetank8050 He was simply illustrating that the area is known for sudden storms. The fact that 200+ ancient ships were lost only shows how much better modern shipping is.
@@frankthetank8050No, but they didn't have masts that broke, either, Most Roman ships were galleys. It is an interesting and relevant piece of historical information.
@@toomignon ok that is true. I was only referring to the difference between a computer engineered modern vessel made of composite materials and alloys with a perfect CG, and a 255 BCE wooden vessel built using sand drawings
Does anyone really believe the media anymore all the ahh ahh etc LISTEN!
It makes me chuckle seeing how much damage they have done to their credibility 😄
If you're posting messages you're part of the media
Co-defendant in the trial also died (different circumstances)
Lightning is always striking twice these days!!! ;)
ABSOLUTELY
The more this western media spin on this the more you know theres a Scam!
These Squalls are common even in this country often referred to as a Storm in a Teacup, very fast moving strong and often short, mother nature at her worst.
@@crhhh6045 , how would you go about rigging a yacht to sink? Explosives? What are you suggesting?
oh - and also, his business partner also was killed 48 hours before this happened in a hit and run. hmm.
@@crhhh6045 , Google "Project Stormfury".
Stop calling him Bill Gates ffs 😂
Wishful thinking perhaps!
Poor bloke, what an insult.....
But he's the British Bill Gates! 😂
Bill Fence there you go that's not Bill gates... Hope you are now happy
British bill gates lol, basically he was very rich but otherwise could have more in common with you.
Hurricane, tornado, whirlpool, lightning strike, torpedo, drone strike, space laser, all natural events
Drone strike?
"Let's just make stuff up and put it on the internet!" - Martin, probably
It was me. Don't tell 🤫
Agreed something seems off
dont forget that his business partner was killed by a hit and run 48 hours before this... hmmm.
A mast does not keep a yacht upright that is the job of the keel. Possibly the boat heeled over in the tornado and the port poles were open
A boat like that would be fully air conditioned. To do that you have to have the port holes closed.
His co-defendant was killed on Saturday while out running, and the media are saying this was an accident.
Yes I was thinking of that. A strange co-incidence.
@@mvl6827 Ironically both were mathematicians and the boat was named after a famous statistician who could probably have worked out the probability of two colleagues and co-defendants dying on the same weekend of unnatural causes.
I'm a lifetime sailor for six decades and I have experienced intense thunderstorms and have sailed in and around twelve waterspouts simultaneously, even.
First about waterspouts: They are not really sea going tornados. I experienced them in quite calm weather (10 knots steady winds). Yes, they spiral like tornados but they are much lower energy. They'd sink a boat by filling it up with water not because of wind.
Lightning: Masts are grounded to plates in the hull. If the cable joining the mast to the plate is inadequate (or if the plate is covered) it will fail and the lightning will find a new path through the boat. When lightning does that, it blows a row of perforations along the waterline that follows the sinusoidal pattern of the sea's wave when it struck. The boat will sink but not quickly.
There is a phenomenon that no one is mentioning that occurs with certain violent thunderstorm fronts. Those are called Microbursts. Sudden downblasts of over 100 mph come from above and can catch a tall rig like that (even without sails) and knock it flat on the water in a few seconds. If the design is poor and the companionway hatch leading down below fills with water when the boat is laying on it's side, a sailboat will fill up and sink like a rock in seconds. Microbursts are notorious and rare killers. They even crash commercial airliners now and again and they still defy accurate prediction. 1:56 1:56
There are very powerful winds in the region of Southern France, the Mediterranean, Sicily, and North Africa. I was a passenger in a private jet departing Marseille, and just a few minutes after take-off, the plane dropped suddenly and violently. I looked at the passenger sitting across the aisle, and he was white as a sheet. That was my introduction to the Mistral wind.
this is true but how many planes been sent to ground by it, the answer commercial airliners = zero.
That's not how boats work. A sail boat without a mast is harder to knock down one that has a mast.
Exactly right.
Somethings sounds really really fishy
Lol! Funniest comment ever!
Maybe time to wash your socks!
Someone describing the accident who obviously knows nothing about sailing
True, but she was doing the more important thing of filling empty air-time, that's all that matters😂
Most journalists know f"all about the topics they're reporting on 😂. They can't even write proper English, e.g. "The boat sunk." Please!
@@LL-LLLL9Yes, teacher - leave the kids alone! Lol!
I know nothing about sailing, and I found this "reporting" weird. Thanks for confirming my suspicion. And I agree, that most journalists know nothing about the topics, theyre reporting on, Im an accountant, and I feel physically hurt 99.9% of the time, when reading/hearing reporting on economy/taxes, coz its at best completely misunderstood and often just plain false.
Maybe don’t have a super yacht with a huge mast? Especially when some people don’t have anything to eat or where to live..
Are there no charities that will help you out with food and shelter ?
As the saying goes…what’s the point of being the richest in the graveyard.
You get the fanciest monument?
What's the point being the poorest alive on the street?
@@gh8447 Being alive is a bonus though, so... 😅.
@@LL-LLLL9Don't worry, be happy!
We all meet our maker. I doubt he has much interest in money.
Ok, someone on that yacht must have had some dirt on Hillary.
Mines attached to the hull by disgruntled parties. Another person involved killed out running a few days before. Someone not happy with the outcome of legal proceedings.
The hull is resting on the seabed completely intact. No holes. No damage from “mines”. Give it a rest with the conspiracy garbage.
This woman speculating doesn't know anything about the sea
She does know how to fill empty air time, which is the most important thing
Dei hire.
She doesn't know much of anything. 😂
its because he was blown up.
his codefendent magically died saturday 2 in seperate incident
She was just reporting!
When lighting travels down a yacht mast it has to exit from the mast to the water (ground) the voltage is big enough to melt a big hole through the aluminium hull..
Enough to sink a yacht like this in seconds.
No doubt this boat had a state of the art bonding system...
As a sailor I've wondered why other sailor's don't seem to be worried about lightening as almost all sailboats have tall iluminum masts and steal cables...?
All structures that protrude into the sky are normally fitted with lightening conductors. This mast should have had one and should have been fitted properly. Just out of interest, a lightening conductor is not actually designed to conduct lightening. If a structure fitted with a lightening conductor is hit by lightening then the lightening conductor has failed. Lightening conductors are connected to ground and end with a point at the top. They are designed to "spray" ions into the atmosphere surrounding the structure so that the structure does not become a target for the strike based on its charge. Those who remember cathode ray tube TV's might remember putting a sewing needle next to the screen in order to hear the ion wind flowing.
@@marviwilson1853 so a conductor is simply a copper cable from the mast or whatever to the keel, or to the water or into the ground? It's just a cable that goes into the ground or water right?? And thanks, for explaining this to me, I like your explanation, very interesting and informative, I totally understand what your saying. If you get your body close to a high voltage electric line you can litteraly see the hairs on you arms stand and you can feel it too.
How can losing the mast unbalance the boat? Looking more like a Blackrock drone strike minute by minute
We in NZ have had boats capsize to 90 degrees when anchored with the centre board raised. It pays to have the board lowered while anchored in heavy weather.
That's not a capsize.
You'll remember during a superyacht race in Auckland bout 10 years ago when one had a chainplate ripped out in strong winds. You could be right about the centerboard, some of these superyachts have drop keels.
The boat was blown over, and there was so much windage on the Mast. There are four Radar/Satellite Domes on the Mast, and the main sail is furled in the Boom. A massive superstructure and maybe, the Tender Hatch was left open!
Money is not everything. Sometimes it's better to be just plain lucky......
I'm Guessing this billionaire has had a fair share of luck too, somewhere along the line, but that runs out at some point.
I think that sometimes the rich take more risks than the rest of us. Maybe that helped them get rich, but then they do silly things such as going down to the seabed in unsuitable submarines etc.
My prayers to all the families
The modern business of Brits and media speculating on things beyond their experience!! The windage on the mast and rigging alone in one of these mediterranean "turbo-vents" is immense, especially with the hight and clutter of this particular mast. If broken and with, even furled sails still rigged, the drag on hitting the water would be huge and with such a low freeboard it would not be beyond reasonable to expect, with the level of severity of this particular turbo, that the yacht would not be put gunwales down! Even worse if, despite being anchored, the bows couldn't be brought head to wind!! A sad happening for which there was probably no warning These winds, even inland, in southern climbs, arrive from nowhere and are usually over and done within a quarter of an hour or so, leaving huge devastation. Even in UK, with the storm that sank the "Athena B" some years ago, I had full sails but all furled and secure and moored against a quay, I was gunwales down during the blow and leaking like a sieve!! My mast was only 30' above deck! Very sad que meme!!!
you a sailor, mate?
I get you. Crazy conspiracy theories abound. But then you find out his business partner in all the controversy was also killed in a hit-and-run just 48 hours before this happened. Hmmm. Just asking questions.
It must be a conspiracy. Hewlett Packard have power over the weather off the coast of Sicily. It's amazing what they can do these days.
@@FreedomFighterz215 Not your mate "mate" nor the mate; I was the owner/skipper (captain).
Mmmm!.. there’s a lot of smoke there to be “NO FIRE”…
Surely following weather forecast would have set in safety procedures.
There are some horrible comments,these poor people drowned,so mean.
Humour has no boundaries, relax. I doubt friends and family will be reading these comments. There will be condolences coming in from the people that matter to them.
when you go down off Sicily in a $50M+ sailing yacht there's nothing poor about it.
@@timewa851don’t be jelly
Rich people problem
Not as mean as the newsreader revelling in the horrific drama of the situation
Are we supposed to know who Mike Lynch is?
A British Billionaire, one of many from the impoverished UK.
We do now!
was!
He is the leader of the Railways Drivers Union...
BOTH RICH AND POOR WILL END UNDER THE SOIL ONE DAY. R. I . P
Yes, when I die I am leaving everything to myself.
I would like to know if any crew were on watch and saw the weather squall coming securing the boat and alerting passengers.
The answer is No.
@@mvl6827don’t blame the crew.
Tornados pop up suddenly?
Happened so fast it doesn’t mean no one was on watch.
@@katie-cp3jw did I blame the crew? Don't tell porkies.
Bill Gates? Stop messing with mother nature!
Lol!
This has all the telltale signs of a giant radioactive squid attack 🤷🏻♂️
😂😂😂
The kracken
Certainly sounds as plausible as what these 2 ignoramus are spouting.
Sounds highly implausible as the mast would be earthed to the prop shaft !!!
Surely all metal parts on the boat would be earthed. Prop shafts are routinely earthed on boats to prevent galvanic corrosion
There is no reason for speculating. There is a competent eye- witness. The skipper of the nearby anchoring traditional sailing vessel SIR ROBERT BADEN- POWEL. He says that there were very strong gusts and he saw at one moment the BAYESIAN lying on gunwales, this means at 90° to her upright position. Moments later he reports seeing only a big fin on the water, which means that the sailing yacht had capsized 180°. And when the gusts finished the sailing yacht was gone.
Yes
The only way this could happen is if she had lost her keel. They for sure will find that the vessel and keel have parted.
lightning is highly unlikely to sink a sailboat. It will disable all electronics, but it doesn't bore a hole through the hull...
Not sure that femal correspondent was an expert in physics, she thought losing the mast could unbalance the boat😂
No it doesn’t do that for sure loosing a keel definitely will
As a beginner sailor I worry about lightening...so can you be hurt from it? or is it just electronics that will be destroyed ?
@@russ549 so long as you have a tall enough mast and correct grounding, you'll be fine. At least it's safer than standing out in a field during a thunderstorm. But stay away from metal and electronics during a thunderstorm.
Actually it can. You must have seen pictures of trees split in half after lightening strikes. This is caused by the vaporization of water within the wood. That same power can cause trouble on sailboats in many different ways. Keel bolts blown off, hull material shattered in places beneath the waterline. It is possible. See what they find when they look at the wreck.
Actually a broken mast would help the stability of a sailboat in high winds. Definitely wasn't the cause of the boat going down. My bet is they had their keel extended up (at anchor) which caused the boat to be less stable and upright. Water got into port holes, and other exposed areas. It can happen very quickly, especially in high surf/windy conditions. Yachts are grounded to absorb lighting strikes and a broken mast won't sink a boat that has it's sails down and is under anchor.
Testing the Space laser, his partner died on the same day in a car accident. Sounds like HP hits
That's 80s technology.
Whats hp
@@EnergyMedicine2012 what partner? Are you serious? Presumably business, if his wife & children were at sea?
@@CL-un9gghis co defendant in his court case against HP, was run over and killed by a car while out on a run / jog about 48 hours ago in Cambridgeshire (UK) coincidence no?
@@JJR_77 blimey I assumed that was fake, but it is indeed being reported in the local media.
Boat autopsy required?
Rich people be having the worst deaths
hIgh energy weapons from high above the Earth, this man knew too much.
What a fun week of absolute co-incidences.
Very unlikely lighting caused it. Huge mast, top heavy (was it in mast furling?) and a freak tornado...same effect as a kabatic wind. My guess anyway. RIP those poor souls, so close to land.
I don't think the mast had a damn thing to do with it. Dismasted ships don't capsize, necessarily. This was a freakish wind event.
@@dap777754 i didn't say the mast broke. Top heavy boats have less stability, hence more likely to capsize and sink because they can't self right.. Get it?
@@AthelstanEngland it's not a top heavy boat. Perini Navi's are built to be comfortable, safe, cruisers. They are not, high performance with a square top main. She had a draft of 32ft which should speak volumes to anyone who knows about yachts. Her keel was huge.
Anyway, at anchor as they were, there would have been zero weight/force/mass anywhere near the mast.
@@AdeboFunkyVoodoo and you don't appear to understand in-mast furling weight distribution, additional shroud weight due to the extreme height and a possible causal link. I said all along it was related to a freak storm not lightning.
@@AthelstanEngland actually lad its to do with his case with Hewlett Packard the printer company, his codefendant died in a car crash this saturday in a seperate incident..
Could the lighting energy blow a hole in the bottom , if the grounding wasn't enough. When a large tree is hit it can blow it apart.
A dismasting can sink a boat in heavy seas or not. At anchor i doubt it very much. A mast is light compared to the hull. 1-2% of the gross tonnage , or less.
Time will tell.
Huge amount of energy put into the mast blows a hole. ??? Possible
Masts break all the time. Mostly on flimsical racing yachts. That limp home for weeks. Destabilising that beast of a boat seems very unlikely ? The only way a broken mast sinks z boat is when it pierces the hull big time. Which it won’t with that hull ?
Correct.
Interesting!
Following an investigation into why the Yacht sank, it then becomes a major insurance matter.
It tough at the top. Not a problem I've encountered as my super yacht gets struck by lightening. Im more the, possibly getting stabbed popping to the shop, kind of person.
That mast was very tall! First thing a bolt of lightning would find.
True for all sailing ships. They are designed to handle this.
You mess with the powers that be you get removed. Him and his co defendant within days of each other
The media has no idea what so ever, she was not anchored in 50 metres of water so the media says, there would not be enough chain on board for that depth, I have encountered water spouts not far from there, just near Malta, that would not sink that vessel and nor would a lightning strike. I do find it strange that Mike Lynch partner was killed in a car crash the day before who was also involved in that court case, there is another side to this sinking and the boat needs to be salvaged.
That boat was a top notch construction, not some mickey mouse French built boat.
“French Built”… 😂😂😂… I like it..
Very unlikely. Losing the mast would make the vessel more stable, not less. The cause of the sinking is more likely to be a hatch, window or doorway either not secure or battered open by the waves.
There would be no appreciable waves generated by a local thunder cloud squall. Maximum 1-2m
Interestingly on the very same date we had a very freakish and intense electric storm with massive lightning strikes in the Seattle Tacoma area. It was by far the worse electric lighting storm I have seen in my 68 years. Are they connected?
no
It'll be related to the sun bursts that happened recently most likely.
No
@@CharlesWhite-j4f i tend to agree but it is quite a coincidence.
@@TheBeefie that thought accrued to me. We had the northern lights the night before.
Thank Goodness most were saved.. Awful situation.
Agree. If anything, a shorter/broken mast would actually INCREASE the vessel's stability. If true, a lightning strike could have taken out the vessel's electrical capabilities - including possibly cutting off the ability for closing watertight features once she was on her beam ends, and of course likely including pumping systems. However, once on her side and taking on water, the pumps would be ineffective as they're located in spaces water collects when she's upright. What's far more puzzling is how a sailing vessel with a keel and massive self righting capability (compared to a motor yacht with no keel) would lay on her side more than a few seconds before coming back up. A vessel her size in protected waters like that (sheltered from full ocean wave action), should have been able to handle even severe top side damage (blown windows, dismasting etc) from a waterspout. One further disabling issue that could explain her loss is the mast itself. It could have broken a large section near the top, which unluckily fell straight down like a battering ram, easily punching through the deck, and possibly punching right out through the bottom and sinking her with the electrical system out. The lighting strike and possible loss of the electricals would explain the lack of an emergency Mayday as well. RIP
This boat sank due to crew inexperience and poor design. Without the keel down, the boat would become very"tender" and heel over to the extent that it would not round up. Then the wind would get under the hull and drive it sideways to leeward with the water pouring over the leeward gunwale. I have experienced that myself. Under any circumstances with the weather coming up the keel should have lowered and as other the boat did, start the engine to hold the boat into windward. The whole of the crew and passengers should have been up with lifejackets on. The so called water spout and the lightning had nothing to do with it. It was the strong wind under the hull because of the skippers inexperience.
I went into this in great detail when it happened to me.
According to other reports I’ve seen the boat had a motorized retractable lead keel for ballast which normally sits 10m deep, but had been pulled up because the boat was anchored which would have made it unstable in high winds. The storm reportedly hit at 5AM when all the passengers were asleep below and it sunk very quickly.
Yes a waterspout would definitely have a chance to sink this boat.
No waterspouts are not rare . Currently as I right this we have waterspout warnings off the coast where I live right now. Surviver’s will give us a better idea possibly.
People forget that mono hulled sail boats usually have a weighted keel which makes them harder to capsize. As a USMM Captain, I really don’t buy it that the aluminum mast caused it to be off balance and capsize. Being anchored usually makes the vessel heel into the wind. I think that there is more to this than what is reported. Hatches may not have been battened down since this storm happened so quickly. My heart goes out to the families of those who were lost, or perished.
The mast is reported as being fully intact and attached to the hull in the correct way. More importantly was the yacht anchored by the bow only or both bow and stern as the latter would not allow the yacht to head into wind and if the wind was side on this would cause the yacht to roll far more than being just anchored at the bow.
Wow. Hope they find the missing 6.
Meanwhile, there's a genocide going on
Go and help yourself! What's stopping you?
@@CharlesWhite-j4fu nasty c
@@maryamislam2461 And you are not very nice yourself, Madam😂 You Palestine obsessives need to give it a break. What has this got to do with Gaza??? The rest of the world goes on.
Yeah it’s called the holocaust it’s still happening this time by Arab nazis
Or you
It's sickening to hear the Times Radio newsreader almost revelling in the horror of the situation. Where do they find such people?
It's a fact that most vessels in a capsized state will float due to air pockets, so unless there was a hole was in the hull it shouldn't have sunk that quick.
‘Lightning’ - planned hit
glad most were rescued. thanks for the details. we who love the people of Britain were shook by the news brits were lost.
God strikes back..
100 percent
What did Mike Lynch do?
Was he a bit of a cad ?
this is biblical.
Did he blaspheme?
Have divers been asked if the keel was retracted?
Something in common with the sinking of the Titanic ... on board were some of the richest people on the planet .... this seems to be fate as this bad weather was gone soon after it started. If it had happened during the day they would all have been able to abandon ship but they were in bed sleeping at the time ... I always imagined that masts were made out of wood due to the possibility of lightning when out at sea.
When you have a mast near 200 feet tall with sails open, tornado speed winds are likely to put the whole ship over. That mast with sails deoyed creates a long leverage lever point.
This is why boats should never go out into the open sea ..i have said it time and time again .stay safe in the confines of a harbour !!
I say the same thing about cars. They should stay on the drive next to the house. It is total madness to take them on the open road and into all that danger. Aeroplane's too should just stay at the airport. Flying at 500mph at 35,000ft! Total madness!
70 million ££ boat can’t survive a lighting strike. .. err what happened. Was it an extra powerful strike. Is this boat useless. Was it an insurance write off ???
Has anyone questioned Thor yet?
No, this was the work of Hephaestus the God of Thunder, who just happens to live nearby, under Mount Etna
@@CharlesWhite-j4flol!
Lighting Strike, yes we believe you. After that interview, not surprised he was targeted with a lightning strike.
I hear that Blackrock's latest military drone is called "lightning strike". Pure coincidence no doubt that Blackrock was the defeated plaintiff in the multi-billion lawsuit being celebrated so ostentatiously on that yacht.
@@CharlesWhite-j4fSounds scary!
Absolutely terrible reporting. The woman being interviewed clearly knows nothing about sailboats in general and this one in particular. This super yacht has a variable draft keel. With the keel down it draws roughly 30 feet and is exceptionally stable when at anchor. However, with the keel raised it draws about 12 feet and is significantly less stable, and vulnerable to tornado strength winds. Such winds can result in a knockdown. If the knockdown is unanticipated and sufficient hatches and port lights are left open, tons of water can quickly enter the boat, overwhelm the bilge pumps and result in a rapid sinking of the ship, with people left trapped down below. This is my best guess of events, based on over 50 years of sailing. But it is still a guess. The mast breaking due to a lightning strike, resulting in the boat being less stable, is a laughably bad hypothesis.
Some comments here are so mean with tinge of jealousy that some of those victims are wealthy. 🙄🙄🙄
Yes, so sad !!! 😢😢😢😢💔🙏🙏
Not if someone refers to them as "poor" people - they were only poor as in unlucky maybe - they were/are stinking rich! Just shows- Money can't "buy" you everything!
John Stonehouse went swimming when his bank was a failure, he jumped in at Miami and he swan to Australia
Hewlett-Packard is sending a search team. 🤣
A good number of boats, if not most, sink because of a chafed hose.
BS. Lightning strike and/or loss of mast will not cause a ship to immediately sink. Tornado confirmed as cause of loss.
Tornado's only happen on land. At sea they are known as water spouts. Waterspouts never reach the ferocity of tornado's. You never get a category 5 water spout! You must have seen video on RUclips of waterspouts coming ashore on the beach in Miami say. All they do is blow the sun shades and deck chairs around.
0:22 If “the sailing mast” had broken, that would have added upright stability.
The crew would probably have noticed the state of the rigging on their way to safety.
I live near Porticello and we had 2 nights of heavy thunderstorms. I don’t understand why the crew let people stay on the boat, when this heavy weather was forecasted.
Someone may be alive in an air pocket, but highly unlikely
A de- masting would likely not have sunk the ship, however a strike of lightning could have pierced a hole in the hull where the stays or mast (depending on the structure) connect to the keel.
I’ll be honest, I find it hard to sympathise for those people due to the nature of their luxurious transport and the level of their wealth. It’s an irony that the rich are the ones who cause the most and the biggest environmental problems on this planet, and now we’re experiencing more unpredictable extreme weather conditions.
It was a sailing boat dude. The guy was doing his bit for the planet and still you moan.
Isn't jealousy one of the sins?
@@CharlesWhite-j4f was he doing this for this planet? Where can I find the information about that?
@@patrikfloding7985 I don’t believe in religions, so don’t preach about “sins”. Besides, I’m not jealous of someone for owning a boat. Boats aren’t my thing and I don’t even like sailing. I hardly fly unless I must, I religiously recycle everything I can. I try my best to live off solar energy as much as I could, my car is a Tesla.
So, now you tell me, what do you do for our planet?
@@Ad_Astra2023 Sadly now we can only guess at the reason for his choice of sailing vessel over diesel-power
Hmmmm. The Captain whom rescued the lifeboaters and described the scene never mentioned a lightening blast so close to their vessels, only in the area. Had it happened, wouldn’t his ears have blown and his entire body shocked by the blast?
Get the story straight was it lightning or a tornado? Either way - sounds like an act of God 🤔
So no insurance for the wife then.
The limit of all humans . Money is not immune.
killed by his own money.... the Irony
This "mast broke - unbalanced the boat" comment seems to have come from an eye witness at the scene according to the reports from Italy. Clearly those who know about sailing boast know that a broken mast does not make a sail boat unbalanced, it actually makes it more balanced as top weight is reduced. Also unlikely that strong winds could break a mast as such a sail boat is designed to work in strong winds on the mast with the huge sail area up!! Talk of being hit by lightening but an aluminum mast would conduct lightening although possibly the extreme current caused a melting and failure. The storm seems more like a thunder cell squall so there would have been no big swells running. Can only assume a mast lightening strike has damaged the hull. The boat was at anchor which would have held it into the wind.