• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    653 months ago

    While the priors seemed to suggest it could float, the update step showed that was an outlier.

    I’ll show myself the door.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    62
    edit-2
    3 months ago

    Do they do the same diligence for the boats full of hundreds of poor people that sink in the Mediterranean every year? Or only when it’s a couple of rich people?

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    453 months ago

    They don’t mention the conspiracy theory: this vessel was owned by the founder of Autonomy software, which died in the accident.

    The same day, the ex vice president of Autonomy software, was killed in a car accident.

    They were related in a fraud case where HP acquired this company for $11B when actually was worth much less than that, writing off a $8B loss very shortly after. But HP is an expert in overvaluing acquisitions.

    Now, I can’t imagine a big HP shareholder like blackrock planning a revenge like this, but indeed is a weird coincidence that the two persons died in a mysterious accident on the same day

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      183 months ago

      Had to look the car accident up. I mean that both are killed sounds suspicious, but in case it was by revenge it was planned very well. At least bbc wrote that the women which caused the car accident even stayed at the scene, so no hit and run. And my two cents regarding the Yacht are that even if it was a big boat, I would never underestimate the power of really, really shitty weather (Wasn’t even a waterspoute mentioned somewere?).

      • TheTechnician27
        link
        fedilink
        English
        223 months ago

        Moreover, I’ll never understand the people who think that shadowy cabals like this intentionally leave extremely obvious clues. Somewhere like Russia, sure, you want to have plausible deniability while still making it obvious that "I did it’. But why would someone wanting to kill these two people for some unspecified reason want to kill them both on the same day? That’s the absolute last thing you want to do if you’re trying to cover something up.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          143 months ago

          I mean, killing someone isn’t going to bring their money back. Putin has his boyars thrown out of windows to send a message, that’s why it’s obvious.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          7
          edit-2
          3 months ago

          That’s the absolute last thing you want to do if you’re trying to cover something up.

          And that’s exactly what they want you to think.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      123 months ago

      The same day, the ex vice president of Autonomy software, was killed in a car accident.

      It was not on the same day. Chamberlain died on 17/08. The Bayesian sunk on the morning of 19/08. I agree that it’s a weird coincidence that the two cofounders died within days of each other, and only a short time after winning their lawsuit. But I can’t imagine it’s a conspiracy. You don’t assassinate someone by sinking their boat in a storm. The road death is not suspicious either, the driver in question is a local woman who is cooperating with police, it’s not like some anonymous driver struck the man down and then disappeared.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        33 months ago

        Honestly, this brings me comfort. Now I know for sure those parasites are dead, and not just on an island after faking their deaths and will sleep better. :)

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          53 months ago

          “Billionaires should not exist”. The people who died on the yacht were not quite billionaires, they were worth only nine figures rather than ten. But still, you don’t accumulate that much wealth without exploiting others.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      4
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      They don’t mention the conspiracy theory: this vessel was owned by the founder of Autonomy software, which died in the accident.

      Ha! The which/who failure makes it sound like the vessel died in the accident.

      The same day, the ex vice president of Autonomy software, was killed in a car accident.

      And this one sounds like ‘the same day’ is someone’s name, and that person was killed in a car accident. What a weird name – and I once worked for a guy named Ransom Love, and this one still stands out. Do they shorten the name to ‘Sam’?

      • Justas🇱🇹
        link
        fedilink
        English
        23 months ago

        Some languages depend not on a specific order of words in a sentence and everyone you meet on the internet is not a speaker of native English.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    233 months ago

    I think we need more empirical data, in the form of more rich people sinking on super yachts to determine whether this is a typical case or not.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    133 months ago

    From what I’ve gathered so far I’d say that every superyatch sinks quickly but I’m not super confident

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    103 months ago

    i’m guessing these pleasure super yachts are not hardcore sea fairing vessels that might not handle sudden extreme weather at all well. also might not be captained by people that would do all the right things in those weather conditions.

    obviously i have no idea if any of that is true

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      73 months ago

      In this case they suspect there were a number of features on the yacht that contributed to its sinking. It had the world’s tallest aluminum mast, a retractable keel and large openings for windows and hatches all over the main deck that were most likely unsecured at the time.

      They suspect she was knocked down by high winds or a water spout. Sailboats get knocked down all the time but all the factors I listed above may have contributed to her being unable to right herself quickly and subsequently filling with water.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        23 months ago

        From what I read it was also anchored, which according to my very own unscientific and probably incorrect hypothesis helped with the tipping over when the wind hit the tall mast because it couldn’t even try to float with the wind.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      53 months ago

      I’ve seen a clip about that. Many hulls are styrofoam with fiberglass. It’s cheap, looks good, but doesn’t do well with collisions and bad weather. If that’s the case here is to be determined.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        10
        edit-2
        3 months ago

        Go to any marina and 90% of the boats there are „styrofoam” and fiberglass. In this size range core fiberglass is a tested technology with many advantages over steel or aluminum hulls (those sink too when abused)

        You see the Titanic was made out of steel and it didn’t handle collisions very well. Boats aren’t usually designed to hit things.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      33 months ago

      Well there’s extreme weather and there’s extreme weather. There have been reports that the yacht was struck by a waterspout, which is basically a tornado but over the water. I’m not sure if the strength of it has been reported or not, but given tornadoes have been known to throw trucks and train cars it doesn’t surprise me that it was likely powerful enough to capsize the yacht.

      Unlike trucks & trains, a sailboat is designed to roll side-to-side. One current theory I’ve read is that the waterspout damaged the mast, causing it to unbalance the yacht (and possibly damaging the hull). The combination of being unbalanced and being slammed by the waterspout likely rolled the hull enough to flood it within seconds. Even if the mast wasn’t damaged, a tornado striking the yacht broadside would have likely been catastrophic depending on the strength of the storm. And waterspouts that powerful are still rather rare so I wouldn’t blame the captain for not anticipating it.

      There are now some reports as well that the yacht sank in roughly one minute. If that’s the case then it means the yacht indeed rolled very quickly and took on a huge volume of water in very little time, so much that it was unable to right itself or that its bilge pumps could contend with it. Again, not something that could have really been anticipated.

    • Irremarkable
      link
      fedilink
      73 months ago

      I’ll never (with exceptions, but this isn’t one) root for someones death. But I’m sure as fuck not going to shed a tear over him. The kid on the other hand? That’s just awful.

    • Tiefling IRL
      link
      fedilink
      English
      43 months ago

      He just wanted to see the Titanic but the orcas got to him first

      Oh well

  • Ellia Plissken
    link
    fedilink
    English
    73 months ago

    I bet it has something to do with a crew member saying “hey, this is too dangerous” and a billionaire saying, “do it or you’re going to lose your job”. like when Virgin Galactic got its FAA whatever revoked for Branson’s behavior on their first space flight

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    63 months ago

    “At 3.55, a mini tornado arrived,” Cefalù said. “The docks of the port diverted it and it hit the sailboat head-on.”

    That seems like the most freak of freak accidents.