Sinking of Yacht off Sicilian Coast

[Cesarina]

This is of course an absolutely tragic event.
I'm feeling a bit mean by saying this.........but why is it the headline topic on BBC news?
I genuinely feel sorry for those involved, but don't understand why it's the dominant news story?

The storm isn't made up but organising a yacht trip with projected shitty weather is plausible.

Don't know but it is very strange the other guy died two days ago.

So you think that someone conjured up a storm, and a water spout that occurred exactly where that particular yacht was?

Projected shitty weather happens every single day and yachts don't sink. This happened because of a freak water spout. No-one could predict that.

The only way it could have been done intentionally would be if someone had weakened the mast to make it more likely that it would topple in a storm, unbalancing the boat and sending it under.

I think this would be very unlikely. It was clearly just a freak accident.

It's a pretty big story... the boat, the freak weather, the people who were on it, the court case, the death of the co defendant... quite a lot going on there.

So sad about the 18 year old girl who had a place at Cambridge University. To study English . She had the whole of her life to look forward to.

Agreed. Sad but….who cares?

Why because he was wealthy ?

It's all a terribly sad story.

I don’t think anyone can conjure a storm, no… but I think it’s a hell of a coincidence.
Could the yacht have been sabotaged so that it heeled over very easily? I don’t know.

I saw the photo of that yacht on the BBC website below a headline asking what caused it to sink, and looking at it - well it's no wonder really. The proportions of it looked unnervingly wrong to me, and the huge mast made it look top-heavy. It didn't look like it would cope with bad weather all that well.

‘No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.’

It could all be incredibly horrible coincidence but he also owned a cybersecurity firm.

Really? applying the same logic - who cares about Jay Slater? and many other people who made news for very sad reasons?

You might want to take a “am I a psychopath” test. You’ll find most normal people care about the needless loss of human life.

It could all be incredibly horrible coincidence but he also owned a cybersecurity firm.

It is, the person driving the car was a local who stopped at the scene.

At work this evening we all agree that the coincidence of Mike Lynch and the death of his co defendant is beyond coincidence. Everyone who has died were very influential and wealthy.Were they pissed/ drug induced,not to save themselves?
Our thoughts were,did the others ,crew ,wife of Mike lynch and mother of baby escape because they were capable of saving themselves! All the crew barring the chef were also ok to save themselves.

It's basically the plot of the TV series Riviera and that ran for two seasons, so there will be more to come yet.

August is a notoriously slow media month as parliament & the Royals are on holiday so they don’t have all the normal news to feed off.

@Hazydetailonlife

i tend to agree. Very sus, especially listening to people on boats next to them saying how it just went straight down quickly. A ship of that size & weight doesn't just go down by itself.

i feel so sorry for his wife, I'd rather not have been rescued than deal with losing my DH & daughter like that. Poor woman.

@fashionqueen0123

none of the other boats around them suffered from the storm.... yes, most of them were sheltering from the storm and anchoring a safe distance from the other boats.

I'm very sure they're going to find it was a man made sinking

I thought it's his lawyer's daughter?

I wondered why it was being given such a large chunk of the 6 o clock news. No idea who the person is that's missing.

Not you, obviously. 🙄

@EmmaGrundyForPM

snd they have all said it was calm
where they were and it didn't list it just suddenly & quickly vanished. Boats that size don't do that by themselves