Mystery as inquiry finds Mike Lynch's Bayesian superyacht was NOT sunk by storm

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Mystery as inquiry finds Mike Lynch's Bayesian superyacht was NOT sunk by storm.

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Italian investigators have concluded that Mike Lynch's Bayesian superyacht was not sunk by a storm.Preliminary findings indicate crew mistakes played a role in the vessel capsizing off Sicily in August 2024 - which flies directly in the face of a British investigation.Seven people were killed in the tragedy, among them tech entrepreneur Mr Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah.According to La Repubblica, the expert team appointed by prosecutors determined the weather event amounted to "little more than a squall, a sudden increase in wind speed that precedes thunderstorms and downpours"."It was not only the fault of the storm," investigators concluded.Its sinking resulted from conditions that were neither extreme nor impossible to anticipate, they found.But last year, a preliminary report by the UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch blamed the storm.The MAIB attributed the disaster to a freak storm approaching tornado intensity - as well as flaws in the yacht's construction.The...

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