Sicily witnessed a tragedy on Monday, August 19, when the posh yacht Bayesian sank as a result of a waterspout, leading to what has been described as “an unbelievable story.” The yacht, carrying 22 passengers, noticed most rescued, however six have been confirmed lifeless, together with British expertise entrepreneur Mike Lynch. The final particular person nonetheless lacking is Lynch’s  18-year-old daughter, Hannah.

This incident raised issues from Giovanni Costantino, chief of The Italian Sea Group. According to CNN, Costantino questioned how these on board failed to note the brewing storm and the problems with the supposedly “unsinkable ship.” He said, “Everything that happened reveals a series of significant errors. The passengers should not have been in the cabins, and the boat should not have been at anchor. Why didn’t the crew know about the incoming disturbance?”

Costantino additional famous that climate charts had already signaled the pure catastrophe, making it arduous to grasp how the passengers have been caught off guard. “The passengers reported that the storm came unexpectedly, but that’s not true. Everything was predictable. I have the weather charts in front of me. Nothing came suddenly,” he stated. He additionally identified that the absence of fishermen within the space ought to have been a transparent warning signal.

A fisherman, Pietro Asciutto, who witnessed the sinking, shared his perspective in accordance with the Washington Post . “I was at home when the tornado hit. I immediately closed all the windows,” he stated. He continued, “Then I saw the boat— it had only one mast, and it was very large. I saw it sink suddenly… The boat was still floating, and then, suddenly, it disappeared.”

This tragedy follows the revelation that the late Mike Lynch, who owned Bayesian , had listed the yacht on the market in March for £30 million (roughly $39 million USD), in accordance with the Telegraph. He later reconsidered and eliminated it from the market to set sail in the summertime, with plans to relist it within the fall.

According to PEOPLE, the passengers on board have been celebrating Lynch’s latest acquittal in a monetary fraud trial within the U.S. An insider shared, “That’s why he took his closest friends and colleagues on the trip.”