by Divers are racing to find Mike Lynch’s personal hard drive locked in a locker on the sea floor, according to reports.
Italian newspaper la Repubblica reported that the tech billionaire, whose clients included MI5, the NSA and the Israeli secret service, did not trust confidential documents in the cloud and kept two encrypted hard drives in a safe now located 49 meters below the level of sea.
Investigators from Palermo said that no personal effects of the seven victims and 15 survivors have been found so far and that surveillance continues on the sailing ship 24 hours a day. They say that only the hard drives are brought to the surface of the ship.
A manslaughter investigation is to continue after specialist divers recovered video equipment that could explain how he sank.
Italian prosecutors will continue their investigation, a source said Reuters Navy divers recovered parts of the deck, computer contents, video surveillance systems, hard drives and various other equipment.
The electronic devices were sent to specialized laboratories outside Sicily to check their condition and possibly recover data, the source added.
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Italian navy recovered video equipment
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Mike Lynch’s two encrypted hard drives remain locked 49m underwater – report
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The Professor fears that ‘medicanes’ will die out after a Bayesian tragedy
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Mike Lynch’s yacht was ‘unburnable’, says the boss of the company that built the boat
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Mike Lynch’s yacht was ‘unburnable’, says the boss of the company that built the boat
12:44 , Barney Davis
Giovanni Costantino, chief executive of the Italian Marine Group, said that the design and construction of the Bayesian has no flaws and is “one of the safest boats in the world”.
The Bayesian, a 184-foot superyacht carrying 22 passengers and crew, was anchored off the port of Porticello, near Palermo, when it sank beneath the waves in minutes after a freak tornado.
“The ship sank because it took on water, from where investigators will have to say,” Mr. Costantino told the TG1 television news program.
He suggested that the sinking was caused by a series of human errors.
The Chief Executive Officer said that if the crew closed all the doors and hatches, started the engine, raised the anchor, lowered the keel and turned the yacht to face the wind, that “zero harm” would be done.
He added that data showed that it took 16 minutes from when the wind started to drop.
Cartoisio said that the tragedy will be even worse if the sinking was caused by “behaviors that were not aligned with the responsibilities that everyone must take in relation to navigation”.
Bodies of Mike Lynch and daughter Hannah flown back to families after Bayesian superimposition
11:44 , Barney Davis
The bodies of those who died after billionaire Mike Lynch’s Bayesian superstition that went off the coast of Sicily have been returned to their families on a private jet.
Italian publication Giornale di Sicilia Post-mortem examinations were reportedly carried out at a hospital in Palermo and the bodies have now been returned.
My colleague Tom Watling reports:
The bodies of Mike Lynch and his daughter were flown back to the UK after the Bayesian tragedy
The Captain gives his account of the tragic sinking
11:38 , Barney Davis
Captain James Cutfield previously gave his harrowing account before invoking his right to remain silent.
According to Correire, he told prosecutors: “Seaman Griffiths came to wake me up and told me there were 20 knots of wind.
“I looked at the instruments and indeed it was. I immediately went out and asked them to warn everyone because I didn’t like the situation.”
He said the Bayesian tilted 45 degrees “and stayed that way for a little bit and then suddenly fell to the right.
“We were caught in the sea”.
Seaman Matthew Griffiths, 22, said: “We somehow climbed back to the bridge and tried to form a human chain to save those who managed to get through that gap from the accommodation deck … they were struggling on the walls because the boat was there. lying in the water.
“The first in the chain was the captain who reached down. He helped everyone, the housewives, the mother with the girl… But we were sinking and unfortunately some of them didn’t make it.”
Mr Griffiths joins fellow Brit Tim Parker-Eaton, 56, and Kiwi skipper James Cutfield, 51, on the official list of those being formally investigated in connection with the shipwreck and multiple manslaughter.
Conducting an investigation is not the same as charging and is a procedural step.
The Professor fears that ‘medicanes’ will die out after a Bayesian tragedy
11:27 , Barney Davis
Professor Yoav Yair, Dean of the School of Sustainability at Reichman University in Israel, told the Mirror that storms called ‘medicanes’ – Mediterranean hurricanes – could cause sinkholes similar to the Bayesian super value.
He said: “It’s not a question of if this (the Bayesian disaster) will happen again, but rather when and where.
“In the last few years we have seen medicines – which are new phenomena. These are hurricane-like storms that pack a lot of energy, and produce flash floods, heavy rain, lightning, hail and sustained high winds. The healer “Daniel” 2023 destroyed Libya and over 30,000 died there.
“Sea surface temperatures have risen globally and in the Med as well, loading the atmosphere with increased water vapor fluxes, meaning a higher potential for massive storms.”
Seven key unanswered questions about Bayesian immersion
09:37 , Barney Davis
With the Bayesian now lying on her side 50 meters below the smooth waters of the Mediterranean, a mystery remains as to how the 56 meter superyacht sank in the typhoon off the port of Porticello.
Remotely controlled underwater vehicles and cave divers are trying to raise the yacht, which will be examined by experts in the coming days.
The key unanswered questions about going tragically Bayesian
Italian navy recovered video equipment
08:37 , Alexander Butler
Italian Navy divers have recovered video surveillance equipment from the wreck of billionaire Mike Lynch’s Bayesian blockbuster that may explain how it sank.
The British technology tycoon’s boat was moored near the port of Porticello on August 19 when it sank in the early hours of the morning. It is now located 50m below the surface.
Among those killed were Mr Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, who was due to start studying at Oxford University in September, as well as four other friends and associates of his family.
Divers searching for clues to how super diver Mike Lynch sank have made a discovery
