This is reportedly the moment a crew member of the doomed Bayesian superyacht posted on social media about an approaching storm.
Matthew Griffiths, 22, is one of three people being investigated following the tragic sinking in August that left seven dead, including tech billionaire Mike Lynch, 59, and his daughter Hannah, 18.
The video is said to have been uploaded to Britain’s Griffiths’ Instagram on August 19, the day the £30 million yacht sank, and shows lightning streaking across the sky and illuminating the distinctive 75-metre Bayesian mast.
Thunder can be heard as the storm approaches the yacht which is anchored off the Sicilian fishing village of Porticello, near Palermo, and which is unknowingly accompanied by the ACDC hit Thunderstruck.
The video was broadcast by Italian news program Quarta Repubblica earlier this week after claiming it was located on Griffiths’ now-closed Instagram account.
Thunder can be heard as the storm approaches the yacht; the video is unknowingly accompanied by ACDC’s hit Thunderstruck.
Seven people died, including tech billionaire Mike Lynch, 59, and his daughter Hannah, 18, in the tragic sinking of the luxury yacht off Sicily.
Griffiths, who lives in the south of France with his parents, is being investigated along with New Zealand captain James Cutfield, 51, and British chief engineer Tim Parker Eaton, 59, for multiple manslaughter and catastrophe.
Griffiths was on watch when the storm hit the Bayesian and told investigators that he and the crew did everything they could to save the passengers on board, but six of them and the yacht’s chef died.
Griffiths reportedly told investigators: “I woke up the captain when the wind was 20 knots (23 mph). He gave orders to wake up everyone else,
‘The yacht tilted and we were thrown into the water. Then we managed to get up and tried to rescue those we could.
‘We were walking along the sides of the yacht. We saved whoever we could, Cutfield also saved the girl and her mother,” referring to passenger Charlotte Golunski and her one-year-old daughter.
Matthew Griffiths is the second British crew member under investigation after the £30m Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily last week.
In total, 15 people were saved from the British flag yacht and on Thursday the tragedy will appear in an ITV documentary to be broadcast at 9pm, where witnesses and emergency services involved in the rescue will speak.
It took 16 minutes for the Bayesian to sink and prosecutors are investigating whether hatches and portholes were left open and unsecured despite bad weather being forecast and what local fishermen were aware of.
Giovanni Costantino, chief executive of Bayesian builders The Italian Sea Group, previously told MailOnline the sinking was due to “human error” and blamed the crew for failing to secure the yacht by insisting it was “unsinkable”.
Those who died also included Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judith, as well as New York lawyer Chris Morvillo and his partner Neda and chef Recaldo Thomas.
