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The maker of Mike Lynch's yacht says it took 16 minutes to sink and the crew should have had time to rescue passengers
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I am really starting to get sick and tired of all the excessive news coverage of this, especially in comparison to (for example) a boat full of refugees sinking. The latter is invariably far more tragic, yet tends to garner far less attention.
See also: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/syria-migrants-boat-sinking-titanic-submersive-missing-rcna90336
Right! Oh no some rich poeple weren't doing proper storm saftey procedures on thier private expensive yacht. Fuck em.
Well, those rich people brought families. One was a young kid. I certainly feel for them. Thankfully the youngest survived.
As somebody who has spent decades on boats I find this news particularly interesting because of the apparent suddenness and violence of the storm. I’m used to hurricanes that take days or weeks to form and move into the area, not waterspouts powerful enough to capsize a 180 foot long, 400+ gross ton super yacht with virtually no warning… It’s virtually unheard of.
Okay, that's fair. If the news articles were focusing on that aspect, as someone who would like to spend time on boats in the future, I probably wouldn't be complaining about it.
That said, it sounds like they left a bunch of hatches between the waterline and the gunwale open (possibly including a tender "garage" at the stern!) despite the fact that they should have known from the forecast that a storm was coming, so I'm not sure it's that interesting. I get the impression that it only "capsized" in the sense that it filled up with water and tipped over when it sloshed to one side, not that it was rolled over by waves. I don't think the waterspout actually was powerful enough to legitimately capsize the boat, but instead merely caused some moderate waves that washed into the open hatches.