[News] Super Yacht sinks off the coast of Sicily

[cheshunt seagull]

The driver of the vehicle that hit the other chap while he was out running, was a woman on holiday in the area who lives in Suffolk.

Why would someone from Suffolk go to Cambridge on holiday?

 

[schmunk]

Why would someone from Suffolk go to Cambridge on holiday?

Convenience?

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

No, but if you know a storm is coming you can arrange to capsize a boat?

I am as far from a conspiracy theorist as you can get but it sounds more than coincidental that co-defendants in a massive fraud case are killed within days of each other.

There’s a reason why the expression ‘batten down the hatches ’ exist. It’s what you do if a storm is in coming.
If they hadn’t prepared for a storm, a large wave would easily swamp the boat and send her to the bottom.

 

[Questions]

If you want to bump some one off you can cut their brakes, push them of a balcony or slip poison in their tea.

You can't arrange a freak storm at sea.

Elon Musk….. Bound to be involved.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Why would someone from Suffolk go to Cambridge on holiday?

To go to THE BIG CITY and get away from their wife/sister or brother/husband?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

This thread about the sinking of the Bayesian has gone wildly off topic.

What was the probability of that?

 

[TheJasperCo]

Wealthy people, sadly, may be more inclined to take risks. Another example being the fate of the men in the hand-made submersible that tried to dive to the wreck of the Titanic. How many other boats were in that part of the Mediterranean during the freak storm? I'd wager not many.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Probably his horses idea.

It was Caligula who tried to make his horse a consul.

I think it was a jibe at how crap he thought the human alternatives were, rather than a serious sign of madness.

 

[Eeyore]

Southwick Tunnel

All the others are

The Southwick Tunnel one does sound so plausible as to be quite boring. The MOD have never denied it and have said that there are installations in the South East.

 

[RandyWanger]

Okay so the plot does indeed thicken especially if you look into the AI surveillance tool and the AI/ML security tool were working on.
It's got vibes of "Promis" about it for those who know their software history.

 

[juliant]

Currently holidaying in Palermo. That storm was quite something.

With what I’m reading about the suspicions now of what may have helped cause the sinking I’m not surprised

 

[AK74]

Okay so the plot does indeed thicken especially if you look into the AI surveillance tool and the AI/ML security tool were working on.
It's got vibes of "Promise" about it for those who know their software history.

PROMIS is a genuinely fascinating story.

 

[A1X]

No disrespect to the victims and those close to them, but is this REALLY the biggest story in the UK to be deemed the lead story on Sky News at 6pm?

 

[One Love]

PROMIS is a genuinely fascinating story.

Any links?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I don't really understand the fixation with conspiracy theories. Most accidents only happy because of a series of coincidental events. Remove one event in the chain and there is no accident. This happens all the time. Unfortunately, when all coincidences meet up then there is an accident often leading to death (failure of one mechanism, failure of another, driver error, person in wrong place at wrong moment because they went left not right etc etc).

The chances of one extraordinary coincidence not happening every day are billions to one.

 

[AK74]

Any links?

The INSLAW Octopus

Software piracy, conspiracy, cover-up, stonewalling, covert action: Just another decade at the Department of Justice

www.wired.com

You can also search for ‘PROMIS, Robert Maxwell’ and get some interesting insights as to his role in selling the software to various countries.

This may or may not have resulted in him accidentally falling off his luxury motor yacht one night…

 

[Springal]

Potential manslaughter being investigated in superyacht sinking, Italian prosecutor says

Investigators plan to bring the shipwreck up from the seabed as part of the probe into the Bayesian's capsizing, the prosecutor told a news conference on Saturday.

news.sky.com

 

[tedebear]

Potential manslaughter being investigated in superyacht sinking, Italian prosecutor says

Investigators plan to bring the shipwreck up from the seabed as part of the probe into the Bayesian's capsizing, the prosecutor told a news conference on Saturday.

news.sky.com

From the speculation I've read, the keel was up, the tender door was open, and the tender was out (as they had been off out for dinner) and I guess everyone on board was enjoying themselves and had failed to clock the incoming storm before they headed off to bed. So sadly if the captain and crew had obviously left the vessel in the state it was in, then I guess it could be manslaughter. Certainly incompetence in the face of such weather. The truth will out soon as the Captain and crew will be being intervewied if not already.

 

[Springal]

From the speculation I've read, the keel was up, the tender door was open, and the tender was out (as they had been off out for dinner) and I guess everyone on board was enjoying themselves and had failed to clock the incoming storm. So sadly if the captain and crew had obviously left the vessel in the state it was in, then I guess it could be manslaughter. Certainly incompetence in the face of such weather. The truth will out soon as the Captain and crew will be being intervewied if not already.

Won’t help the conspiracy theories ! Especially as all deck crew survived

 

[tedebear]

Won’t help the conspiracy theories ! Especially as all deck crew survived

I know, it is very suspicious this other chap in the fraud case also dying I do get that. But the entire crew would have had to be paid here to leave the yacht in such a state AND then create a waterspout and freak storm. Not sure how the conspiracy theorists think a storm can be created, I'd be interested to know!