A disturbing new video has emerged showing divers examining the interior of the doomed Bayesian superyacht two months after it sank in Italy.
The clip, broadcast on Monday by Italian television investigative program Quarta Repubblica, shows a team of divers exploring the shipwreck that claimed the lives of seven people on August 19.
In the footage, a diver can be seen holding on to a rope as he descends into the water as bubbles from his oxygen tank rise from the side.
Investigators approached the site of the wreckage of the £30 million superyacht, which is currently lying at a depth of 160 feet.
After swimming toward an opening, divers navigate eerie hallways, hatches and rooms inside the Bayesian, which lies to starboard on the sea floor.
New images released by the Italian research program Quarta Repubblica show divers exploring the wreck of the Bayesian superyacht that sank on August 19.
Investigators approached the wreck site of the £30m superyacht, which is currently at a depth of 49 metres.
Divers swam through the sunken ship’s spooky hallways and rooms
The images come a few weeks after investigations were opened into four of the seven people who died.
They included tech billionaire Mike Lynch, 59, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, who was due to start at Oxford University this month, and Morgan Stanley International director Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy.
Hannah was the last of the seven to be found, four days after the sinking, with her body hidden behind a mattress below deck.
Suffolk Coroner’s Court was told that Lynch, who was celebrating being cleared of a multimillion-dollar fraud against Hewlett Packard, was said to have drowned.
But the cause of death of his daughter and the other two victims was not confirmed and Italian media speculated that they probably survived briefly in an air pocket and did not drown but suffocated.
Prosecutors investigating the sinking off the coast of Porticello on the Italian island of Sicily believe Bayesian was “enveloped by a wall of water” that caused the sinking after he was hit by a freak storm.
Leaked details from a preliminary report suggest the yacht sank after it was overwhelmed by water cascading over the main deck and down the spiral staircase to the lower levels.
They are also examining whether the Bayesian’s characteristic 75m mast may also have been to blame, as it first listed ’45 degrees, before listing a full 90 degrees’ and sinking.
Wind speeds were around 60mph at the time of the tragedy and a preliminary report quotes investigators as saying: ‘(Bayesian) had the entire port side exposed to gusts and waves. With such a high mast, the sail effect was decisive in tilting it.’
A photograph provided on August 19 by the Perini Navi Press Office shows the sailboat ‘Bayesiano’, in Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah died in the Bayesian tragedy when the superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily.
The first autopsies were performed on attorney Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda (both pictured) and the autopsies found that they had no water in their lungs.
Autopsies performed on Morgan Stanley boss Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy reveal they “asphyxiated” in an air bubble and did not drown, reports claim.
Investigators are also continuing to investigate “human error,” focusing on why the engines did not start and the yacht’s bow pointed into the wind to minimize the effects of the storm.
This caused the Bayesian to move 400 meters, gradually tilting, allowing seawater to spill over the decks and descend into the bowels of the ship where the cabins are located and where six of the seven victims were found.
Bayesian is now at a depth of 49m with a permanent coastguard safety cordon and plans are being drawn up to bring it to light in the coming weeks.
Authorities are also investigating why the Bayesian failed to start its engines, as was the nearby yacht Sir Baden Powell, which survived the storm unscathed.
Key to this decision are Captain James Cutfield and Chief Engineer Tim Parker Eaton and the pair are expected to be questioned extensively in the coming weeks as to why they did not take this action, which would undoubtedly have prevented the sinking.
Fifteen people – including Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares – survived the tragedy, which came just months after a US court acquitted him of a multimillion-dollar fraud involving software giant Hewlett Packard.
New Zealander Cutfield, 51, and British duo Parker Eaton, 59, with security guard Matthew Griffiths, 22, have been formally investigated for multiple homicide and catastrophe.
At a depth of 49 meters, the Bayesian can be seen lying on its starboard side and bubbles from a diver’s oxygen tank can be seen rising from the side in images released last week.
The British-flagged Bayesian superyacht (pictured) was owned by tech tycoon Mike Lynch.
The time of death for the four was 5 a.m. on August 19, less than an hour after the yacht was hit by a rare storm known as a downburst and there were ten guests and twelve crew on board.
When asked by the coroner for further explanation of this, DS Mike Brown of Suffolk Police said that “further evidence was needed” to establish the cause of the deaths and that it was “not uncommon” in such circumstances.
Superintendent Brown said that as the Bayesian was registered in Britain, the Marine Accident Investigation Division was also investigating the sinking and that Italian authorities had launched a criminal case.
Coroner Nigel Parsley described the four deaths as “very sad” and adjourned the hearing until April 15, 2025 for “further enquiries”.
The new images come just a week after the first images of the sunken ship were leaked to Quarta Repubblica and broadcast.
Quarta Repubblica said in its report that the bodies of the deceased were found on the side visible in the clip.
The white line that can be seen is the one that runs along the Bayesian’s hull and the dark oblongs indicated with red circles are the cockpit windows.
