Yacht builder claims ‘unspeakable’ crew errors led to ship sinking in Sicily

The CEO of a manufacturing company responsible for building the yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily this week has blamed the vessel’s demise on a series of “indescribable and unreasonable mistakes” by the crew.

Reuters reported that Giovanni Costantino, CEO of The Italian Sea Group, which includes Perini Navi, the Italian luxury yacht builder that built the British-flagged Bayesian in 2008, blamed the crew of the 183-foot superyacht that sank after capsizing on Monday.

“The boat suffered a series of indescribable and unreasonable errors. The impossible happened on this boat… but it sank because it took on water. From where, the investigators will say,” Costantino said in an interview.

The Bayesian had 22 people on board – 12 passengers and 10 crew – when it capsized and sank minutes after being hit by a pre-dawn storm while anchored off the coast of northern Sicily.

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The yacht has been refitted twice since its construction, most recently in 2020, but not by Perini.

Costantino ruled out design or construction flaws as reasons for the ship’s sinking, saying it was unlikely after 16 years of trouble-free sailing, including in harsher weather conditions than those encountered by Bayesian this week.

Instead, he blamed the yacht’s crew for the “incredible mistake” of not preparing for the storm, which was included in the sailing forecast.

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“It is a mistake that calls for revenge,” Costantino said.

Passengers should have been asked to leave their cabins and herded to a safety point while the ship prepared for the storm by raising anchor, the CEO said. Additionally, doors and hatches should have been closed and the keel should have been lowered to increase stability, among other safety measures, Costantino said.

If the correct procedures had been followed, all the passengers would have gone back to sleep after an hour, “and the next morning they would have happily resumed their wonderful cruise,” Costantino added.

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The body of billionaire tech mogul Mike Lynch was among five bodies recovered from the luxury superyacht after it sank.

Lynch, a British tech titan, was apparently aboard the Bayesian to celebrate his recent acquittal in a US fraud case with associates who helped him during the trial.

Among the six missing were Lynch, her 18-year-old daughter Hannah, Christopher Morvillo, an American lawyer with the law firm Clifford Chance who defended Lynch in the fraud case, and Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer, who testified in Lynch’s defense.

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Morvillo’s wife, Neda, and Bloomer’s wife, Judy, were also among the missing.

Divers searched for the missing in the hull of the Bayesian, which now lies on the seabed at a depth of 50 meters. Although the sixth person, who authorities say is a woman, is still missing, the operation is considered a recovery because there have been no signs of life in three days of searching.

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A nearby sailboat rescued 15 people, including a one-year-old girl. The body of the chef on board, Recaldo Thomas, an Antiguan citizen, was found Monday.

Investigators are trying to understand why the superyacht sank so quickly.

Stephen Sorace of Fox News Digital, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.