Yacht Sank in Sicily Due to ‘Endless Chain of Errors,' Ship Maker's Owner Speculates: ‘Everything Was Predictable’

Mar. 15, 2025

“This episode sounds like an unbelievable story, both technically and as a fact,” Giovanni Costantino — who leads The Italian Sea Group, the company that now owns Perini Navi, which built theBayesianin 2008 — said,according to CNN.

While speaking toItalian newspaperCorriere della Sera, Costantino said he believes those on board should not have been in their cabins, as he claims they were, when the Bayesian sank in the early hours of Monday, Aug. 19.

Many detailsof why the yacht went into the water so quicklyremain unclear and it’s not yet known what the passengers and crew were doing before tragedy struck.

A photo of the ‘Bayesian’.PERINI NAVI PRESS OFFICE/HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

PERINI NAVI PRESS OFFICE/HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

“Everything that has been done reveals a very long sum of errors. The people should not have been in the cabins, the boat should not have been at anchor. And then why didn’t the crew know about the incoming disturbance?” Costantino said in his interview, translated from Italian.

“The passengers reported an absurd thing, namely that the storm came unexpected, suddenly. It’s not true. Everything was predictable. I have the weather charts in front of me here. Nothing came suddenly … Ask yourself, why was no fisherman from Porticello out that night? A fisherman reads the weather conditions and a ship doesn’t? The disturbance was fully readable in all the weather charts. One could not not know,” he argued.

“An unsinkable ship but from the crew an endless chain of errors,” the CEO asserted.

The coast guard has said 22 people were aboard theBayesianwhen it sank — 12 passengers and 10 crew — and that 15 of those were subsequently rescued.

Five bodies have been found after the luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily.ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty

ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty

Lynch was celebrating with family and friends on the yacht following his acquittal in a fraud trial in June, PEOPLE previously reported.

“The next morning they would have departed with zero damage.”

One person remains missing amid the incident.Jonathan Brady/PA Images via Getty

Jonathan Brady/PA Images via Getty

When discussing whether the crew were at fault, Costantino reiterated to the Italian outlet that he believes “errors were made.”

“A series of activities should have been done to avoid finding oneself in that situation,” he said. “I as the ship’s captain would have moved, but even if for some reason I had to stay there, I would have managed those weather conditions which then, let’s face it, weren’t so crazy.”

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Costantino contended that there would have been “a zero risk if the correct maneuvers had been made and if situations that compromised the ship’s stability had not occurred,” adding to the newspaper that reports that the boat went down in seconds is “nonsense.” He believes the yacht would have “went down” after water “started to enter” within “six minutes.”

The remaining missingBayesianpassengers areLynch’s daughter Hannahas well as Chairman of Morgan Stanley InternationalJonathan Bloomer, his wife, Judy, and New York City-based lawyerChristopher Morvillo and his wife, Neda, sources have said.

Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, was among those rescued, PEOPLE previously reported.

source: people.com