The captain of a yacht who helped to rescue 15 people from the stricken Bayesian superyacht has described how his crew spotted the distress flare set off from a life raft.

Karsten Borner said his vessel, the Sir Robert BP, was about 150 to 200 metres from the Bayesian when the ‘extreme’ weather hit.

He said his boat was using its engine to stay in position and the crew noticed the Bayesian had disappeared before a passenger on his yacht spotted the flare.

Mr Borner said they dispatched their tender which found the life raft and brought the occupants back to his yacht.

He told Sky News: ‘We couldn’t see them any more and they disappeared from the radar, we were busy keeping our own ship sailing.

‘We couldn’t see the ship again so we were aware something was very wrong.’

He said it was only when the tender set out that they found the life raft.

He said: ‘It turned out to be the life raft, a 12-person life raft with 15 people inside including one baby.

‘They stepped over to our tender and we brought them back to our ship. There we took good care of them, gave them dry clothes, towels, blankets, tea and coffee and so on and took care of them.’

Mr Borner said he helped the coastguard launch its search and rescue mission for the other occupants of the Bayesian.

He added that the captain of the Bayesian told him the yacht had sunk in two minutes but he had since seen a video which showed it go down in 60 seconds.

He said: ‘The engineer and captain had no explanation why she sank so quickly.’

By Rory Tingle

All but one of the crew onboard Mike Lynch’s doomed superyacht survived because they were awake and on deck while their passengers remained asleep in the cabins below, a maritime expert suggested today.

Stephen Askins is a partner at Tatham & Co, a London law firm with a specialism in maritime law. He has spent over thirty years working in the maritime sector, including dealing with the aftermath of accidents.

Stephen Askins told MailOnline: ‘All the crew apart from the chef have survived, which tells me that they were all up. The people who survive these things are awake and on deck, meaning they are able to launch a liferaft.

‘I’m sure they would have looked at the weather reports, and you can imagine a conversation between the captain and owner about how the weather was going to worsen, which is why the crew were awake.

‘The crew were all up and when it all kicked off they were able to grab one of the liferafts, but other people were trapped below. Things happened so quickly that it would have been difficult for them to reach the passengers.’

At the end of the third day of searches, MailOnline understands that five bodies were found but only four brought to shore.

One person remains missing.

Italian authorities have not confirmed the identities of the bodies that were discovered today.

A reminder of the six people divers were searching for today off the coast of Sicily:

The official death toll is now six – as Recaldo Thomas, the onboard chef, was the first confirmed death from the accident on Monday.

The head of Sicily’s civil protection agency Salvatore Cocina has told the PA news agency that searches have finished for the day and will resume on Thursday.

He confirmed that five bodies have been found, but only four recovered.

One person remains missing, Mr Cocina said.

The head of Sicily’s civil protection agency Salvatore Cocina told PA that four bodies had been recovered and efforts to bring a fifth to shore were ‘ongoing’.

He said there will be an investigation in due course, but the priority was to find those who are still missing.

This brings the number of confirmed deaths to six after the yacht’s chef Recaldo Thomas was recovered on Monday and four bodies were recovered earlier today.

The identities of those recovered have not been confirmed by Italian authorities.

One person remains missing.

Four bodies have been found in a short period of time this afternoon but the search continues for the two people still missing after the luxury yacht sank on Monday.

Italian authorities are yet to confirm the identities of those recovered.

As locals watched on in silence, the bodies were lifted onto shore and taken into a tent, before being transferred into a waiting ambulance.

The rescue mission has quickly become a recovery mission.

Recaldo Thomas, a chef with Antiguan roots, was the first confirmed death from the accident.

Cooking onboard Lynch’s superyacht was supposed to be one of his last jobs before retiring, his cousin, David Isaac, told The Associated Press.

Thomas was born in Canada but he would visit his parents’ homeland of Antigua as a child, moving permanently to the tiny eastern Caribbean island in his early 20s.

‘He was a free spirit,’ Isaac recalled. ‘Nothing rattled him. I’ve never seen him upset.’

Upon moving to Antigua, Thomas, best known as Rick, started working as a bartender in Jolly Harbor so he could be close to the sea, his second love after cooking, Isaac said.

Thomas also picked up jobs on small boats and eventually went to culinary school and started working on bigger ships.

Isaac recalled how Thomas would be gone for several months at a time and then unexpectedly show up in Antigua between jobs.

‘This particular incident was hard,’ Isaac said. ‘He was just ready to tie up the end of his journey in his career.’

Isaac recalled Thomas’ ‘big, infectious’ laugh and said he found some solace in that ‘Rick did exactly what he was meant to do and what he loved doing.’

Three body bags were seen being taken to the port of Porticello.

Hundreds of locals gathered to watch, as church bells were heard ringing out.

Salvatore Cocina, head of the Sicily civil protection agency, said one other body had also been found in the wreckage for a total of four.

Today’s discoveries bring the total number of confirmed dead to five and means there are still two people unaccounted for.

The Telegraph is reporting the two bodies initially recovered from the wreckage of the sunken Bayesian yacht are Mike Lynch (pictured) and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah.

Sicily civil protection chief Salvo Cocina also confirmed two other bodies have been found and are now being recovered by divers.

Mr Cocina told the newspaper:

Let’s just remind ourselves who rescue divers are searching for off the coast of Sicily

MailOnline understands four bodies have now been discovered on the third day of searches.

Two more bodies have now been found inside the sunken yacht, according to Reuters.

That makes four in total with six passengers unaccounted for.

by Nick Craven in Sicily and Matthew Lodge

Divers searching the shipwreck of a £30million luxury superyacht have found the bodies of two missing passengers.

Search teams are believed to have made the tragic discovery today while scouring through the Bayesian, which sank off the coast of Sicily after being hit by a ‘black swan’ waterspout on Monday morning.

The body of at least one person was brought ashore shortly before 3pm local time, before being placed into a waiting ambulance in the harbour of Porticello.

The remains of the pair, whose names or sex have not yet been revealed, were found in the hull of the boat behind two mattresses, with claims that one is a ‘heavily built man’.

Six guests, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah have been missing since then, with specialist divers desperately trying to access the boat amid hope survivors could be alive in air pockets inside the vessel.

Also unaccounted for since disaster struck is Morgan Stanley boss Jonathan Bloomer, his wife Judy and American citizens Chris Morvillo and his jewellery designer wife Neda Morvillo.

The head of Sicily’s civil protection agency, Salvatore Cocina, has confirmed to the BBC that two bodies have been found in the sunken yacht.

PA News agency later reported a body appeared to be pulled from the water near the site of the sunken yacht.

A green body bag was taken back to the port of Porticello where dozens of emergency services staff were waiting.

Italian media has also reported two bodies have been discovered inside the Bayesian by rescue divers.

According to the newspaper La Repubblica, the bodies were seen behind two mattresses.

We’ve had no official word yet but will bring you developments as soon as we can.

Divers scouring the wreck of the luxury yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily have found the bodies of two of the six passengers who were missing, a source has told Reuters news agency.

The boat, owned by the wife of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, was carrying 22 passengers and crew and was anchored off the port of Porticello, near Palermo, when it capsized during a fierce, pre-dawn storm on Monday.

Rescue teams did not immediately give the names or the sex of the drowned people, who are the second and third victims of the shipwreck to be found. However, one was later described as a ‘heavily built man’.

Officials have so far not verified the reports.

Divers have been attempting to gain access to the boat – which has rested around 50m (165ft) below the surface – since Monday.

Along with divers and underwater robots, a helicopter has been deployed to the wreck in Sicily for overhead searches.

Helicopters have been used throughout the rescue operation to recover six passengers missing since the yacht sank on Monday.

We can now show you the underwater robots that have been deployed to the Bayesian wreck off the coast of Sicily.

The devices can function for up to seven hours and operate at a depth of 300 metres in which time it can record detailed pictures and videos.

The Italian Coast Guard have now released a video of the robot:

by Jonathan Chadwick

Scientists have claimed that climate change amplified the turbulent weather that sank the Bayesian superyacht within minutes.

Worryingly, this could be the first of many similar catastrophes, according to the experts.

They warn a wave of ‘black swan’ events – so-called due to their extreme severity – could follow as global temperatures continue to rise.

Italian climatologist, Luca Mercalli, said the sea surface temperature around Sicily was around 30°C (86°F) when the superyacht sank – almost 3°C higher than normal.

‘This creates an enormous source of energy that contributes to these storms,’ Mercalli said.

‘So we can’t say that this is all due to climate change, but we can say that it has an amplifying effect.’

by Nick Craven in Sicily and Matthew Lodge

Divers searching the wreck of a £30million superyacht for survivors have finally gained access to the ‘master cabin’ where British tech tycoon Mike Lynch had been sleeping before it sank.

Rescue teams are working against the clock in a bid to find anyone alive inside the Bayesian, which sank off the coast of Sicily after being hit by a ‘black swan’ waterspout.

Desperate officials say they are still hoping there may be survivors trapped in air pockets inside the ship, with divers listening for ‘banging noises’ that may indicate signs of life and an underwater robot deployed to aid in the search.

Six people, including Mr Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter and the chairman of Morgan Stanley International, are believed to have been trapped in their cabins following the catastrophic incident at 5am on Monday morning.

The search operation to find them has been beset with problems, with floating debris blocking the narrow corridors of the vessel and the depth of the wreck meaning divers can only spend 10 minutes at the bottom before having to return.

A British investigation team has arrived on the island this morning, with experts attempting to determine exactly what caused the ship to sink so rapidly after witnesses claimed it went under the water in the space of just two minutes.

Rescue divers have returned to the site of the Bayesian wreck as they attempt to enter cabins where it is feared six missing passengers may have been trapped when the superyacht sank on Monday.

Here’s what you need to know this lunchtime:

Divers from the local fire service have been seen entering the water with torches attached to their headgear at the site of the shipwreck on Wednesday afternoon.

A police boat and divers were also seen entering the water. The boats spent a short time at the scene before heading back to the nearby port.

A helicopter hovered overhead.

Here are the latest pictures from Sicily as the search for four missing Britons and two Americans enters the third day.

by Matthew Lodge

A hero British mother who saved her baby daughter from drowning as the Bayesian superyacht sank during a freak storm survived because she was ‘sleeping on deck’ when it hit.

Charlotte Golunski was left holding her daughter Sophia ‘afloat with all her strength’ in the pitch-black water when the boat went down early on Monday morning after being struck by a waterspout.

The 35-year-old was left screaming for help as the storm raged around her, before being helped onto a liferaft where she and 14 other survivors took shelter while awaiting rescue.

The Oxford graduate was discharged from hospital yesterday alongside Sophia, and has been reunited with her husband who was not with her when the tragedy unfolded but also survived.

At least one person is known to have died in the tragedy, while six others including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter are still missing with fears they are dead in the wreck of the boat as search operations continue.

We previously reported that remotely controlled underwater vehicles have been deployed to the site of the Bayesian superyacht to help rescue divers today.

We now have more details about what these vehicles are and how they will help at the scene.

The Telegraph reports the device can function for up to seven hours and operate at a depth of 300 metres in which time it can record detailed pictures and videos.

In a statement issued by the Italian Coast Guard, officials said:

by Rory Tingle

The captain of Mike Lynch’s sunken superyacht is a ‘well respected’ seafarer who has worked on boats since he was a teenager and was previously employed by a Turkish billionaire.

James Cutfield, a 51-year-old New Zealander, was in charge of the Bayesian when it sank off the coast of Sicily during a storm – leaving one man, the ship’s chef, confirmed dead and six more missing.

The luxury £30million sailboat was anchored just a few hundred metres off the coast of Porticello on calm seas when it was suddenly struck by a violent waterspout just before 5am on Monday.

Mr Cutfield spoke for the first time about the tragedy from his hospital bed in Palermo, telling an Italian newspaper: ‘We didn’t see it coming.’

Officials are today investigating whether hatches left open by crew caused the boat to sink in a matter of minutes, as divers continue to searching for the missing, which include Mr Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah and a boss at Morgan Stanley.

The captain’s brother, Mark Cutfield, said he was a ‘very good sailor’ and was ‘very well respected’ in the Mediterranean. He told the NZ Herald that James is currently in hospital but was ‘okay’ and did not have injuries that were ‘too dramatic’.

Investigators in Italy and the UK will examine the circumstances surrounding the sinking of the Bayesian.

One expert at the scene said an early focus of the official investigation into the tragedy, launched by prosecutors in nearby Termini Imerese, would be whether the yacht’s crew had closed access hatches into the vessel before the storm struck.

Investigators would look at whether appropriate measures had been taken, given the forecasts for bad weather overnight, and if any of the crew members are criminally liable.

Meanwhile a British team will also take part in the probe, with a former marine accident investigator saying they will look at whether the windows or watertight doors were open.

Four inspectors from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) have today arrived in Porticello.

A team of four British inspectors from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) have arrived in Porticello where they are expected to look at the site of the sinking, the PA News agency have reported.

They are understood to have arrived on Tuesday and are expected to carry out a ‘preliminary assessment’ of the site on Wednesday.

The MAIB is looking into what happened because the sailing yacht Bayesian was flying a British flag, it is understood.

The Italian Coastguard said the MAIB are not involved in the search for the missing people and that it did not request assistance.

Spokesman Vincenzo Zagarola said:

Divers have returned to the site of the Bayesian wreck as they resume searches for six passengers feared trapped inside.

The search has previously been described by ‘very complicated’ so let’s take a look at the challenges facing those who are heading 50 metres underwater to provide answers for survivors in Sicily and friends and family in the UK and the US.

Here are just five issues the divers will have to contend with today

A maritime expert has claimed the Bayesian superyacht may have sunk as a result of a ‘black swan event’.

So-called black swans are defined as Weather events characterised by their extreme rarity and severe impact with Hurricane Katrina in 2005 cited as a previous example.

Matthew Schanck, chair of the Maritime Search and Rescue Council, said the Bayesian may have fallen victim to such an event.

He told Reuters:

Looking at the extreme weather, if it was a water spout, which it appears to be, it’s what I would class as like a black swan event. And even outside of the maritime industry, all industries struggle with the black swan events.

He said he was confident the authorities would “get to the bottom” of what caused the shipwreck, thanks to the accounts of survivors, witnesses and examination of the ship, which appears to have remained intact on the seabed.

Inspections of the sunken yacht’s hull have taken place on Wednesday morning.

Search crews arrived at 6.30am local time (5.30am BST), with a boat carrying divers seen leaving Porticello at around 10.30am (9.30am BST).

Fire crews say they are accessing the yacht through natural entrances, without making openings.

Remotely controlled underwater vehicles are being used, with naval units and cave divers also taking part in the search, the Italian Coastguard has said.

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by Robert Hardman

Even in the dwindling twilight, the divers and the patrol boats are still out there off the Sicilian coast as I write, lending the tiniest credence to that slenderest of hopes: might someone, in some miraculous air pocket, still be alive?

It is now two days since the 183ft British superyacht, the Bayesian, capsized in seconds and sank in 150ft of water in the early hours of Monday.

Six people are missing, including the owner, British tech guru Mike Lynch, and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah.

Yet, divers have since reported finding a hull still apparently intact and lying on its ­starboard side with heavy detritus – furniture and so on – blocking their path to some of the cabins within.

In the absence of bodies, one expert raised the dim possibility that someone might still be trapped in a submerged pocket of air.

Nick Sloane, a salvage engineer who worked on the wreck of the Italian Costa Concordia cruise ship, told Sky News yesterday that ‘they’ve got a very small window of time to try to find people’.

He added that, since the yacht was on its side and not upright, the prospects of trapped air were much greater. ‘The next 24 hours are critical,’ he said.

Jeremy Bloomer, twin brother of missing passenger Jonathan Bloomer, last night told the BBC: ‘It’s a slow process and it will take time. So there might be air pockets, but we don’t know. It’s still wait and see, so fingers crossed.’

The authorities have not – quite – abandoned all notions of a miracle, though they were managing expectations last night.

Read more here:

Rescue divers have been pictured preparing to resume the search for six people missing after a superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily.

According to the Ansa News Agecny, a briefing between firefighters, Italian port authorities and engineers has taken place to assess the situation before dives are carried out later today.

by Nick Craven and Matthew Lodge

Guests and crew members on the doomed Bayesian superyacht were filmed peacefully enjoying it’s owner’s ‘victory’ trip just days before the boat sank off the coast of Sicily.

Video taken by curious onlookers showed a group of people on the £30million vessel as it floated off Porticello, with men and women in white polo shirts seen moving around the deck in calm waters off the island of Vulcano last week.

The boat had been taken to Mediterranean island by British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, who had invited family and friends with him to celebrate his ‘second life’ after being acquitted of fraud charges in the US.

Just days later six of those on board would be missing and 15 others dramatically rescued after the boat capsized following a direct hit from a freak ‘black swan’ waterspout during severe thunderstorms on Monday morning.

Today the search operation for those who are still not accounted for – including Mr Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter and a senior boss at Morgan Stanley – enters its third day, with divers warning they are not expecting to find anyone alive.

by Tom Cotterill

Specialist divers searching the wreck of the British superyacht Bayesian were among the team of rescuers scrambled to deal with the sinking of the Costa Concordia.

A frantic hunt is underway to find the six people still missing following the Bayesian’s shock sinking off the coast of Sicily on Monday morning.

The £30million luxury vessel – owned by British tech mogul Mike Lynch – capsized after being battered by tornado-forced wind.

Specialist divers are this morning resuming efforts to get into the wreck of the 187ft British-flagged vessel – with Mr Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter among the passengers missing and now feared dead.

Italian news website il Giornale now reports that some of the frogmen deployed today also supported rescue efforts onboard the sunken cruise ship the Costa Concordia.

The Costa Concordia partially sank in January 2012 after it struck a rock off the coast of Tuscany, killing 33 people.

by Miriam Kuepper

The wife of missing British tech tycoon Mike Lynch is now reportedly recovering from her injuries in a wheelchair whilst she is waiting for updates on her husband and 18-year-old daughter after Mr Lynch’s superyacht sunk.

Angela Bacares, 57, has revealed that the first sign of the freak waterspout that sunk the luxury sailboat Bayesian just before 5am this morning was a ‘slight tilt’ that woke her up.

Ms Bacares, who was among the fifteen people who were rescued from the 180ft ship, told Italian media that both her husband and their daughter Hannah, 18, are missing after the yacht sank as she anxiously waits for updates.

Mr Lynch’s wife told La Repubblica that she and her husband woke up at 4am when the boat suddenly ’tilted’.

Mrs Bacares said that they were not worried at the time, but that she still got up to see what was happening, until glass shattered and created confusion on board.

She sustained abrasions on her feet – likely after walking on glass shards during the sinking – which have left her unable to walk and sitting in a wheelchair, La Repubblica reports, while she also has bandages on others part of her body.

by Emily Jane Davies, Nick Craven, Matthew Lodge and Rory Tingle

Horrifying CCTV shows the Bayesian superyacht being engulfed by the vicious storm that would sink it ‘in 60 seconds’.

Footage taken from a CCTV camera on a villa just 200 yards from where the boat sank shows the ship anchored in the distance – its blinking lights just visible beyond the torrential rain.

The homeowner told a local newspaper: ‘In just sixty seconds you can see the ship disappear. By chance, after the uproar of the news, I looked at the cameras. My children told me.

‘Of about twenty cameras installed in the house, only one was not disturbed by the wind and the rain. You can clearly see what is happening. There was nothing that could be done for the vessel. It disappeared in a very short time’.

There is a second video – which has not been published – showing the boat sinking, reports Giornale di Sicilia.

by Katherine Lawton

Schoolfriends of 18-year-old Hannah Lynch (pictured left) are anxiously waiting for updates on her safe return after the teenager went missing alongside her tech billionaire father when his superyacht suddenly sank.

Luxury sailboat Bayesian was docked off the coast of Porticello, near Palermo, Italy, when a waterspout hit the area just before 5am on Monday morning, wrecking the boat and causing it to rapidly sink.

While 15 of the 22 people on board were rescued by nearby ships, the yacht’s chef tragically died while six people including Hannah and her father Mike Lynch are still missing.

The prestigious Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, west London, said it is ‘in shock’ after former pupil Hannah was one of the six to disappear following the ‘whirlwind’.

A spokesperson for the £25,000-a-year school said: ‘We are all incredibly shocked by the news that Hannah and her father are among those missing in this tragic incident and our thoughts are with their family and everyone involved as we await further updates.’

Hannah had just completed her A-Levels and gained a place to study English at Oxford before the tragedy.

by Rory Tingle and Matthew Lodge

This is the first photo of a luxury superyacht chef who was killed when the vessel sank after being hit by a freak storm off the Sicilian coast.

Recaldo Thomas, a Canadian citizen working in Antigua, is the first confirmed victim of the disaster yesterday morning.

Tributes poured in to him today, with a friend hailing him as a ‘very special person’ who ‘had so much to give’.

Others shared photos of the chef on his travels around the world, during which he would regularly post on social media about his stunning culinary creations.

Before we look ahead to the search operation today, let’s recap some of the developments from yesterday as the extent of the complicated rescue mission became clear.

Here are five takeaways we learned:

Italian authorities have opened an investigation into whether hatches left open by crew members on tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s superyacht caused it to sink so quickly.

Sailing expert Sam Jefferson, editor of magazine Sailing Today, said he believes open hatches and doors may have contributed to the rapid sinking.

He said: ‘I would have said that the boat got hit very hard by the wind, it was pinned over on its side.

‘I imagine all the doors were open because it was hot, so there were enough hatches and doors open that it filled with water very quickly and sank like that.’

Andrea Ratti, a nautical design professor at Milan Polytechnic University, said a boat the size of the Bayesian would only sink so quickly by taking in a huge amount of water.

He suggested that portholes, windows or other openings may have been left open, letting in water.

The search for passengers unaccounted for has entered its third day this morning, with divers continuing their efforts to reach the cabins in the hopes of finding them.

An engineer has claimed the missing passengers could still be alive in air pockets 164ft below the surface, meaning divers – who can only remain underwater for ten minutes per dive due to the depth of where the wreck is – are competing in a race against time.

Their operation has been hampered by difficulty getting into the ship with divers forced to smash their way through a 3cm-thick porthole to gain access to one area and other parts of the wrecked vessel blocked by furniture.

One expert at the scene said an early focus of the official investigation into the tragedy, launched by prosecutors in nearby Termini Imerese, would be whether the yacht’s crew had closed access hatches into the vessel before the storm struck.

Investigators would look at whether appropriate measures had been taken, given the forecasts for bad weather overnight, and if any of the crew members are criminally liable.

Hello and welcome to MailOnline’s live coverage of the Sicily yacht sinking as the search for six missing passengers enters its third day.

Divers searching the wreck will today attempt to enter cabins on the Bayesian after rescuers managed to smash through a 3cm-thick porthole with the help of a local blacksmith with experience working on boats.

Six passengers remain unaccounted for.

British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer, his wife Judy, a former charity trustee and American nationals Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda are feared dead.

We will bring you the latest on the search operation throughout the course of the day.

What caused the superyacht, built in 2008 by Italian shipyard Perini Navi, to sink so quickly, when the nearby Sir Robert Baden Powell sailboat was largely spared and managed to rescue the survivors?

‘There’s a lot of uncertainty as to whether it had a lifting keel and whether it might have been up,’ said Jean-Baptiste Souppez, a fellow of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects and the editor of the Journal of Sailing Technology. ‘But if it had, then that would reduce the amount of stability that the vessel had, and therefore made it easier for it to roll over on its side,’ he said in an interview.

The captain of the Sir Robert Baden Powell sailboat, which came to the Bayesian’s rescue, said he had remained anchored with his engines running to try to maintain the ship’s position as the storm, which was forecast, rolled in.

‘Another possibility is to heave anchor before the storm and to run downwind at open sea,’ Karsten Bornersaid in a text message. But he said that might not have been a viable option for the Bayesian, given its trademark 246-foot tall mast.

‘If there was a stability problem, caused by the extremely tall mast, it would not have been better at open sea,’ he said.

Yachts like the Bayesian are required to have watertight, sub-compartments that are specifically designed to prevent a rapid, catastrophic sinking even when some parts fill with water.

‘So for the vessel to sink, especially this fast, you are really looking at taking water on board very quickly, but also in a number of locations along the length of the vessel, which again indicates that it might have been rolled over on its side,’ Souppez said.