Inside the Shocking Sicily Yacht Tragedy That Left 7 People Dead

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The weather was “all predictable,” he continued, adding that the storm “was fully legible in all the weather charts. It couldn’t have been ignored.”

The yacht’s captain, identified as James Cutfield of New Zealand, was taken to Termini Imerese hospital for treatment. From there, he told La Repubblica, per Sky News, that he didn’t see the storm coming.

Borner, the captain of the ship that rescued the 15 Bayesian survivors, told NBC News that he noticed the storm come in at 4 a.m. local time, and saw what looked to him like a waterspout, a type of tornado that forms above water.

The International Centre for Waterspout Research posted on X Aug. 19 that it had “confirmed 18 waterspouts today off the coasts of Italy. Some were powerful waterspouts, one of which may have been responsible for the sinking of a large yacht off of Sicily.”

Borner said he didn’t know why the Bayesian sank so quickly, guessing “it may have something to do with the mast, which was incredibly long.” (A tall mast, even with its sails down, means there’s more surface area exposed to wind, which can result in tipping.) 

Confirming that one person was dead and six unaccounted for immediately following the wreck on Aug. 19, Salvo Cocina of Sicily’s civil protection agency told reporters that a waterspout had struck the area overnight.

“They were in the wrong place at the wrong time,” he said.

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