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A crew member who was on board the ‘Bayesian’ when it sank off Sicily has spoken about what happened.
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British sailor Matthew Griffiths said he alerted the yacht’s captain when strong winds hit.
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Griffiths and two others are under investigation following the sinking of the yacht.
A crew member aboard British tech magnate Mike Lynch’s “Bayesian” yacht when it sank off the coast of Porticello in Sicilyhas this month opened up about the incident.
Matthew Griffiths, a British sailor who was on watch on the ship when it sank, told prosecutors that he had woken the yacht’s captain when “the wind was blowing at 20 knots”, the Italian news agency That was reported by ANSA.
He said the captain then “ordered everyone else to wake up” before Griffiths “put away the cushions and plants, closed the windows in the bow living room and some hatches.”
After being thrown from the tipping ship into the water once, Griffiths said he climbed back aboard and “walked the walls” as he and other crew members tried to save those they could.
Griffiths, the boat’s captain James Cutfield and the yacht’s engineer Tim Parker Eaton are under investigation after the sinking.
Ansa reported that Griffiths and Parker Eaton’s lawyers may request “technical consulting services to clarify the causes of the shipwreck.”
The head of the prosecutor’s office in Termini Imerese, Ambrogio Cartosio, has previously said that he is investigating a “criminal hypothesis” of guilty of shipwreck and manslaughter.
Experts have said that state of the art yacht should not have sunk so easily.
Seven people died after Bayesian went down.
Among the victims were Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah.
Speaking of the survivors, Griffiths said “Cutfield saved the little girl and her mother,” referring to Charlotte Golunski and her one-year-old daughter.
Mike Lynch, the founder of Autonomy, was on the yacht with friends and family celebrating his recent acquittal in a fraud trial.
Stephen Chamberlain, a former vice president of finance at Autonomy who was also a defendant in the fraud trial, died in a separate incident days before Bayesian went down.
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