I would have thought they’d have drowned? So, if anyone else wants to chime in, please do.
Four victims on Mike Lynch yacht died of suffocation, autopsies suggest
Initial examinations of four of the people killed when British tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s family yacht sank off Sicily last month indicated they had died of suffocation as oxygen ran out on the stricken vessel, judicial sources said on Thursday.
Lynch, his daughter Hannah, an onboard cook and four guests died when the Bayesian, a British flagged 56-metre (184-feet) superyacht, sank during a severe and sudden weather event off the port of Porticello, near Palermo, on Aug. 19.
First results from autopsies on four of the victims – Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer, his wife Judy, lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda – suggested that they died from suffocation, having been trapped on the ship.
The sinking has puzzled naval experts, who said
a vessel like the Bayesian,built by Perini, a high-end yacht manufacturer owned by The Italian Sea Group,should have withstood the storm and, in any case, should not have sunk as quickly as it did.