Many questions remain about why the yacht sank, and so quickly, when other boats nearby were unaffected.
Italian prosecutors have opened a probe and will hold a press conference on Saturday.
On Thursday the head of the company which built the boat said the tragedy could have been avoided.
“Everything that was done reveals a very long summation of errors,” said Giovanni Costantino, head of the Italian Sea Group, which includes the Perini Navi company that built Bayesian in 2008.
BAD WEATHER FORECAST
He told Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper that bad weather was forecast and all the passengers should have been gathered at a pre-arranged assembly point, with all the doors and hatches closed.
“Instead it took on water with the guests still in the cabin. They ended up in a trap, those poor people ended up like mice in a trap,” he said.
The Bayesian, owned by Lynch’s family, boasted a 75m mast, the tallest aluminium sailing mast in the world, according to the Charter World website.
Raising the wreck would likely cost some 15 million euros and take “six to eight weeks”, according to the salvage engineer who led the operation to recover the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which sank off Italy in 2012.
To recover the yacht, the mast could be removed on the seabed but the boat would be lifted up whole using a giant crane and a team of 40 specialist divers, South African engineer Nick Sloane told the Repubblica daily.
Source: CNA
