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Albert Tatlock

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3 hours ago, When Skies are Grey V2 said:

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Seems a catastrophic failure of something here...yachts don't just capsize and sink that quickly coz of wind!

 

 

All the crew bar the chef escaped. Mmmmm. 

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24 minutes ago, RoundTheCourse said:

And they'd be trained in evacuation and emergency procedures and will have practiced them.

 

40 minutes ago, Gladys said:

Possibly because of where the crew's quarters were situated?

 

They were more than likely awake, on deck on watch, or prepping for the storm.  Seems it was known to be coming, but the severity of it was a surprise.  Anyone in a cabin/asleep went down with the ship.  The woman with the baby was on deck or at least out of the cabin - read a report saying that they left their cabin due to the noise and rocking. 

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Just now, The Phantom said:

 

They were more than likely awake, on deck on watch, or prepping for the storm.  Seems it was known to be coming, but the severity of it was a surprise.  Anyone in a cabin went down with the ship.  The woman with the baby was on deck or at least out of the cabin - read a report saying that they left their cabin due to the noise and rocking. 

Good point.  Not sure about the conspiracy theories, but they always abound.  What is sure, is it is a tragedy. 

From the above video there has been pretty awful weather down there recently.  Once witnessed a  waterspout over Douglas Bay about 20 years ago.  Not a big one, but it was quite a sight!

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14 minutes ago, Gladys said:

Good point.  Not sure about the conspiracy theories, but they always abound.  What is sure, is it is a tragedy. 

From the above video there has been pretty awful weather down there recently.  Once witnessed a  waterspout over Douglas Bay about 20 years ago.  Not a big one, but it was quite a sight!

Looking into a bit further just now.  Seems everyone that was rescued was in the liferaft and all of them got into the raft from the water.  There was no organised evacuation onto a waiting lifeboat it went down too quickly.  Anyone on deck was thrown into the sea.  Anyone not on deck pretty much went down with the boat.  No mayday or distress signals.  Just a red flare from the life raft.  Captain of a nearby vessel said something along the lines of 'it was there one minute and wasn't the next'. 

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24 minutes ago, Andy Onchan said:

Given there was bad weather at the time it's quite likely that the crew were ordered all hands on deck. 

Then leave everyone else on board. Where’s the captain by the way?

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50 minutes ago, Gladys said:

From the above video there has been pretty awful weather down there recently.  Once witnessed a  waterspout over Douglas Bay about 20 years ago.  Not a big one, but it was quite a sight!

 

16 hours ago, english zloty said:

Twas a proper storm 

It’s worth pointing out that the video of the storm was 5 days earlier and approx 1000 km away at the other end of  the Mediterranean from when/where Bayesian went down.

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22 minutes ago, John Wright said:

 

It’s worth pointing out that the video of the storm was 5 days earlier and approx 1000 km away at the other end of  the Mediterranean from when/where Bayesian went down.

Which is why I referred to the recent bad weather generally. 

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