The water sleeve blamed for the deadly sinking of the luxury superyacht carrying British tech billionaire Mike Lynch in Italy has state called A rare “black swan” type phenomenon. But scientists believe this type of marine tornado is becoming more common with global warming.
Although the cause of the sinking of the Bayesian Although not officially determined, weather conditions and witness reports from Sicily, where the yacht was anchored off the coast, have led experts to suspect a waterspout, a rotating column air and water mist. The key factor in the formation of waterslides is warm water, and last year the ocean surface warmed to record temperatures, partly due to climate change.
“If this rate of warming continues in the future, it is quite possible that these phenomena will become common and not rare,” says Michalis Sioutas, a doctor of meteorology who studies manganese in Greece and is a member of the board of directors of the Hellenic Meteorological Society. “It is quite possible that we will be talking about manganese or even tornadoes and extreme storms that will become common.”
The 180 feet Bayesian The ship sank within minutes after a sudden storm with strong winds and intense lightning snapped its mast at around 4 a.m. Monday. Fifteen people on board were rescued and one person was found dead. Six people are missing, including British tech billionaire Mike Lynch, who was recently acquitted of fraud charges over the sale of his company to Hewlett-Packard. The bodies of five people were recovered from the sunken ship on Wednesday, but they have not yet been identified.
Fishermen saw a waterspout near the yacht shortly before it sank, and a nearby schooner was shaken so that its captain, Karsten Borner, called a “hurricane gust,” which he believe overturned the BayesianExperts said conditions were ripe for a landslide.
This extreme weather phenomenon occurs when warm, moist air rises rapidly over water and twists as winds change direction at different heights. The result is a long, curved spray funnel between the water and the clouds, which narrows as it rises up to 10,000 feet into the sky.
It comes in two flavors. The more vanilla type is a fair weather sea sleeveA storm that forms in relatively calm and even sunny conditions, often beneath a rolling cloud cover. It most often occurs in places like the Great Lakes and the Florida Keys, reaches wind speeds of 50 miles per hour, and typically breaks up before it can cause significant damage.
Then there are severe waterspouts — essentially tornadoes over water — which “are a whole other ball game,” according to Wade Szilagyi, a retired meteorologist with the Meteorological Service of Canada who now heads the International Waterspout Research Centre. These tornadic waterspouts can move from land to water, or vice versa, and spin at 200 kilometres per hour or more. They have been known to throw debris, tear apart buildings and capsize ships.