Mike Lynch’s Yacht Sinking Latest News: The Bayesian captain will be questioned again by prosecutors in manslaughter investigation

Prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio confirmed the opening of an investigation on Saturday.

He said his team would examine every possible element of liability, including the responsibility of the captain, the crew, the individuals responsible for supervision, and the yacht’s manufacturer.

The 184-foot (56-metre) British-flagged luxury yacht “Baizian” sank near a Mediterranean island in southern Italy on Monday.

Investigators are focusing on how the ship, deemed “unsinkable” by its manufacturer, Italian shipyard Perini Navi, sank while a nearby sailboat remained largely unscathed.

Prosecutors said the event was “extremely rapid” and may have been a “burst” – a strong local wind that descends from a thunderstorm and spreads quickly upon hitting the ground.

The crew, except for the cook, were rescued, while six passengers were trapped inside the hull.

Prosecutors in Italy are continuing to investigate the captain of a luxury yacht that sank during a storm off the coast of Sicily last week.

James Cutfield, a 51-year-old New Zealander who was the captain of the Baysian, was among 15 survivors of the August 19 sinking that killed British technology mogul Mike Lynch, his daughter Hannah and five others.

Lawyer Aldo Mordiglia, one of the lawyers appointed to defend the captain, said Catfield is being investigated for manslaughter and causing the ship to sink.

Mr. Mordiglia said Mr. Catfield, who has already been questioned, will be questioned again by prosecutors on Tuesday. He declined to discuss the defense strategy.

Under Italian law, being investigated does not mean conviction and does not necessarily lead to criminal charges.

Prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio confirmed on Saturday that an investigation had been opened.

A lawyer who died after his yacht sank off the coast of Sicily wrote a poignant post on LinkedIn two months before he joined the ill-fated voyage.

In one of his few posts on the site, Christopher Morvillo, 59, thanked his legal team after they helped British tech mogul Mike Lynch win a fraud trial and discussed living “happily ever after.”

Greg Graziosi and Mike Bedigan a report:

Officials said the luxury yacht was hit by a violent storm, and Italian officials said they would look into how it affected one vessel and not other nearby vessels, according to a translation of the conference.

A downburst is an intense burst of wind at ground level emanating from the strong downdraft of a thunderstorm; the wind often blows radially from a point source, as opposed to the rotating winds associated with a tornado.

Blizzards usually last only a few minutes, and can be especially dangerous for aviation.

It has been blamed for a number of aviation accidents over the years, although the hazards are usually well predicted by meteorologists allowing pilots to avoid them.

A court-appointed armed guard tasked with ensuring Mike Lynch does not escape while he faces fraud charges has praised the tech mogul, saying the security team has become “less detailed and more like family”.

Rollo Igno also described the “beautiful memory of the soul” in Mr. Lynch’s daughter, Hannah.

Mr. Igno said he had the “privilege” of spending “almost every waking moment” with Mr. Lynch while he was in custody in San Francisco, describing the details as unlike anything he had ever worked on and as “life-changing.”

“As an executive protection agent, the first rule is simple: Never get close to the boss,” he said.

“They are not your friends, they are clients and the relationship is strictly professional. But with Mike, that was not acceptable to him and to me, and that rule quickly faded.”

Autonomy, the software company sold by Mike Lynch in an £8.64bn deal in 2011, pioneered business data analytics, using machine learning and what Mr Lynch called “adaptive pattern recognition”.

The company used a statistical method called Bayesian inference at the heart of its software, which was invented by the 18th-century mathematician Thomas Bayes.

Yacht name Bayesianreferring to the same model that was at the heart of Autonomy’s success — and Mr. Lynch’s.

Mike Lynch and his wife Angela Bakaris, once dubbed the “Britain’s Bill Gates”, were worth an estimated £852m in 2023, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.

The 59-year-old tech mogul is best known for founding Invoke Capital and Autonomy Corporation and was in the headlines after being acquitted of charges in a high-profile fraud case.

my colleague Barney Davis Contains more details:

The 56-meter yacht sank. Bayesian The British newspaper “The Daily Telegraph” wrote that the tragic deaths of British technology mogul Mike Lynch, his guests and the boat crew gave the public a glimpse into the rare world of luxury yachts. International boatto Lucy Dunne.

From the massive size of the mast (74 metres, roughly the size of seven two-storey houses stacked on top of each other) to the cost (Bayesian Put up for sale in 2014 with an asking price of $30 million, equivalent to around £23 million, to the sheer luxury (the interiors were designed by Remi Tessier, the designer behind the new penthouse at Claridge’s), it’s a world few people get the chance to see.

There are currently 12,626 superyachts on the water around the world, with 1,166 under construction or on order. If you’ve been to a Greek island this year, or perhaps the Amalfi Coast, you’ve probably spotted them cruising in and out of port and wondered who owns such a yacht. Or who can afford to charter one – which averages around £180,000 a week.

While you might think of high-profile influencers and A-list celebrities, the superyacht community is where the millionaires are sorted from the billionaires from the billionaires; 0.001 per position. It’s rare to find a celebrity with the financial clout to buy a Lynch-owned yacht, as these are generally industry titans who aren’t as well-known or household names.

So what exactly makes a superyacht super? According to Boat International, where I work, it can be applied to any boat, motor yacht or sailing yacht over 24 metres in length. In the world of superyachts, size is everything – and yachts get bigger with time.

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