[News] Super Yacht sinks off the coast of Sicily

[vegster]

They weren't under suspicion; they were both cleared

And that is the interesting part, you get off a multi million pound fraud charge and this just happens.. yes yes the waterspout...odd that it didn't sink the boat close in front though.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Oh FFS.

RIP to those killed or missing in this freak accident.

 

[dazzer6666]

And that is the interesting part, you get off a multi million pound fraud charge and this just happens.. yes yes the waterspout...odd that it didn't sink the boat close in front though.

Possibly something to do with the huge mast the yacht had……

Anyway, no doubt the survivors will be able to shed some light on what happened when they are ready.

 

[beorhthelm]

it's only odd if you believe governments can control the weather, and use such an emense power to target a businessman who was found not guilty in a case of mundane corporate embarrassment. it's beyond daft to suppose foul play here.

 

[SweatyMexican]

Not one for conspiracy theories, but his co-defendant was sadly hit by a car and killed on Saturday.

Mike Lynch co-defendant Stephen Chamberlain dies after car crash in Cambridgeshire

Stephen Chamberlain's lawyer says he died while out running.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[dsr-burnley]

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

How do you capsize a boat without anyone noticing?

 

[dazzer6666]

How do you capsize a boat without anyone noticing?

….which is 56m long and weighs 473 tonnes.

 

[Triggaaar]

….which is 56m long and weighs 473 tonnes.

... with a load of passengers onboard, who survive and get to say what happened

 

[Brovion]

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.

I must admit I'm the same. I believe that, yes it was a co-incidence. A pretty remarkable one, but a tragic co-incidence nonetheless.

However if I did believe conspiracy theories this is certainly one I'd be tempted to swallow. (That and Jeffrey Epstein being killed because he knew too much).

 

[RandyWanger]

it's only odd if you believe governments can control the weather, and use such an emense power to target a businessman who was found not guilty in a case of mundane corporate embarrassment. it's beyond daft to suppose foul play here.

Went down that high-frequency active auroral research program rabbit hole once.

 

[nicko31]

Possibly something to do with the huge mast the yacht had……

Anyway, no doubt the survivors will be able to shed some light on what happened when they are ready.

The second tallest mast in the world apparently.

A freak incident caused by more extreme weather in the Med. Sea surface temperatures are at record levels driven by climate change, a reminder its a threat to us all.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Don't be a tw@t.

Not sure that is a fair response. It is said it was a party for the chaps acquittal in court recently. Seems odd that only four days ago his Co defendant was killed in a car accident.

The one thing that could not be pre planned was the tornado I guess.

Seems the head of Morgan Stanley is also reported as being missing too.

 

[Littlemo]

How do you capsize a boat without anyone noticing?

I don’t know

Actually that sent me down a Google rabbit hole, apparently destabilising the boat can, and you can do that a few ways. Damage to any of the external parts, weight imbalance or damage to something called a sail trim.

Actually it seems it doesn’t take a huge wave to send it over either. Apparently a 10m yacht only needs a 3m breaking wave and 60m wave capsized all the models they tested. 20ft wave could take out a 32ft yacht (they did a study at Wolfson Unit at Southampton Uni).

 

[dazzer6666]

I don’t know

Actually that sent me down a Google rabbit hole, apparently destabilising the boat can, and you can do that a few ways. Damage to any of the external parts, weight imbalance or damage to something called a sail trim.

Actually it seems it doesn’t take a huge wave to send it over either. Apparently a 10m yacht only needs a 3m breaking wave and 60m wave capsized all the models they tested. 20ft wave could take out a 32ft yacht (they did a study at Wolfson Unit at Southampton Uni).

….and they don’t test against tornados and waterspouts

 

[Birdie Boy]

I don’t know

Actually that sent me down a Google rabbit hole, apparently destabilising the boat can, and you can do that a few ways. Damage to any of the external parts, weight imbalance or damage to something called a sail trim.

Actually it seems it doesn’t take a huge wave to send it over either. Apparently a 10m yacht only needs a 3m breaking wave and 60m wave capsized all the models they tested. 20ft wave could take out a 32ft yacht (they did a study at Wolfson Unit at Southampton Uni).

I think a 60m wave would take out more than yachts! I love a conspiracy theory, believe very few of them if any though. This is a massive coincidence though.

 

[Insel affe]

This is exactly why I’m lying in bed reading NSC for an hour or two while Mrs Freakout takes daughter Freakout on a whale watching trip off the coast of Tarifa. I didn’t have the nerve to tell daughter Freakout about this bit of news, otherwise she would have refused to go and Mrs Freakout had pre paid and would have blamed me and had a….
Freakout….

 

[seagullwedgee]

The big yacht was anchored, so would have been enveloped by the rapidly rising rotating water spout, it could not ride the wave. The much much smaller boats nearby were not anchored, and so rose up on the rotating water spout and rode it out.

 

[Weststander]

The big yacht was anchored, so would have been enveloped by the rapidly rising rotating water spout, it could not ride the wave. The much much smaller boats nearby were not anchored, and so rose up on the rotating water spout and rode it out.

Exactly.

 

[Blue3]

A tragedy and my thoughts are with the relatives just heard on the radio this tycoon was on the yacht his wife owns on holiday with his lawyer and merchant banker.

I don’t have a lawyer and have no idea who my bank manager is these days let alone having a holiday with them, no disrespect intended it’s just different worlds.

I also was listening to the life scientific and Bill Gates was being interviewed and the interviewer mentioned that he shuns a lavish lifestyle commenting that apparently Mr Gates prefers a cheese burger to which Mr Gates replied with something to the effect that the millions of billionaires all have different tastes which struck me just how normal these individuals with huge wealth see themselves

 

[Littlemo]

I think a 60m wave would take out more than yachts! I love a conspiracy theory, believe very few of them if any though. This is a massive coincidence though.

I think this is genuinely the first conspiracy theory I may possibly (because I’m not 100% sold) believe in.

I just find it too much that both these guys died unexpectedly, by accidental means, within days of each other, after they get off this trial. I’m not sure coincidence really stretches that far.