The company that built the ill-fated superyacht Bayesian has recently shared what it thinks is to blame for the recent tragedy in Italy.
In the early hours of Monday morning, the 160-foot luxury boat called the Bayesian was submerged following a violent storm just off the coast of Sicily.
The vessel was carrying 22 people on board - 12 of whom were passengers and 10 crew members - when a small waterspout tornado developed over the area.
Italian media reported the winds snapped the boat's single mast, unbalancing the vessel and causing it to capsize.
The weather forecast had warned of potential strong winds, with storms across the entire southern region of Italy on Sunday, the Coast Guard spokesperson added.
Fifteen people were rescued and one child was airlifted to the children’s hospital in Palermo. One body was found on the hull of the yacht the coastguard said, as per a report by CNN. Six others were declared missing.
Initially, it was reported that Mike Lynch, along with his daughter Hannah, Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer, his wife Judy Bloomer, Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo, and his wife Neda Morvillo were missing.
In a new update, it has been confirmed all the bodies have now been found after the final one, belonging to Hannah Lynch, has been secured.
On Friday (August 23), divers found the body of the missing 18-year-old according to Sky News.
Officials in the country are "investigating shipwreck and multiple counts of culpable manslaughter," per Italian media on Friday.
In the wake of the tragedy, the company that built the luxury 56-meter yacht in 2008, has suggested that this could have all been avoided and that a number of avoidable human errors to blame.
"Everything that was done reveals a very long summation of errors,” the head of Italian Sea Group, Giovanni Cotantino told Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper, per News.com.au.
Using security footage to explain his point further, Cotantino picked up on the fact that the lights on the yacht's mast went off, which indicated a potential short circuit.
“A Perini ship resisted Hurricane Katrina, a category 5 [hurricane]. Does it seem to you that it can’t resist a tornado from here?” he put to the newspaper.
Costantino stated that it was “good practice when the ship is at anchor to have a guard on the bridge, and if there was one he could not have failed to see the storm coming."
"Instead it took on water with the guests still in the cabin. They ended up in a trap, those poor people ended up like mice in a trap," he added.
Cotantino also spoke to The Financial Times and Sky News about the time in which it took for the vessel to sink, disputing the claims made by some experts.
“The torture lasted 16 minutes. It went down, not in one minute as some scientists have said," he told the outlet. "It went down in 16 minutes. You can see it from the charts, from the AIS [Automatic Identification System] tracking chart."
He then explained what the captain of the boat should have done in this emergency situation.
"The captain should have prepared the boat and put it in a state of alert and of safety, just like the boat [the Sir Robert Baden Powell] anchored 350 metres away, which was built in 1957 and handled the [weather] event brilliantly," he added.
The boat's captain - James Cutfield, from New Zealand - has been questioned about his involvement in the sinking of the ship as per Giornale Di Sicilia.
The investigation continues.