Megayacht Sinking

This vessel was at anchor.

 

Fair enough I still would think a night watch would be prudent.
I’m sure that rig had tons of electronics to alert to severe weather etc. Also unlikely such a severe storm with 85kt gusts just came out on no where.

 

You're spot on about someone being on duty. However, the weather did come along incredibly suddenly. It was a water spout / a tornado over water. At night.

The crew had little to no time to rouse the passengers and get them into pfds even if they had the gumption to do so.

I think this is a tragic, one-off , freak incident that will teach a lot of lessons in the realm of naval architecture for small D billionaires needing big masts.

 

Water and storms are a mess.

I remember one time in a 27’ cc we had just come up from a dive and a thunderstorm came barreling at us. Barely had time to get our BCs off and the wind came up so fast it spun the boat 180. We barely got the anchor up and got underway when the nasty stuff hit. Blowing 35-45, rain so hard we kept our masks on.
Went from slick calm to 6-8 in about 10 minutes.
Just had to head into the waves and keep it straight until it blew through. 30” of hell. Then it went back to sunny and slick calm.

 

Sorry to spoil the conspiracy, but it wasn't a hit and run. A woman stayed at the scene to cooperate with police immediately - had it been a hit and run, I would have made the same immediate connection.

 

It seems that every summer we have a major catastrophe at sea. Last year it was the Titan submersible. Don't remember what it was the year before, but I also remember a summer where some kids were lost trying to get their runabout over to the Bahamas in a storm.

 

This is accurate from what I’ve read. There was another yacht about 300 yards away which easily weathered the storm and was key in rescuing the survivors. They were prepared and were running the engine turned into the storm. My guess is someone figured he could take the night off and it caused the sinking.

 

Karma has her way.

 

Sorry, I'm out of touch w this story. I heard there were 20+ people on board. Do you know how many survived?