The climate was “all predictable,” he continued, including that the storm “was absolutely legible in all of the climate charts. It could not have been ignored.”
The yacht’s captain, recognized as James Cutfield of New Zealand, was taken to Termini Imerese hospital for remedy. From there, he advised La Repubblica, per Sky Information, that he did not see the storm coming.
Borner, the captain of the ship that rescued the 15 Bayesian survivors, advised NBC Information that he observed the storm are available in at 4 a.m. native time, and noticed what seemed to him like a waterspout, a sort of twister that varieties above water.
The Worldwide Centre for Waterspout Analysis posted on X Aug. 19 that it had “confirmed 18 waterspouts at this time off the coasts of Italy. Some had been highly effective waterspouts, one in every of which can have been chargeable for the sinking of a giant yacht off of Sicily.”
Borner stated he did not know why the Bayesian sank so rapidly, guessing “it might have one thing to do with the mast, which was extremely lengthy.” (A tall mast, even with its sails down, means there’s extra floor space uncovered to wind, which can lead to tipping.)
Confirming that one individual was useless and 6 unaccounted for instantly following the wreck on Aug. 19, Salvo Cocina of Sicily’s civil safety company advised reporters {that a} waterspout had struck the realm in a single day.
“They had been within the mistaken place on the mistaken time,” he stated.
