<ul class="summary-list"><li>Tech tycoon <keyword id="20559006" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="mike-lynch" source="keywords">Mike Lynch</keyword> died in a yacht sinking near Palermo, Italy.</li><li>An investigation is underway, with experts questioning how the state-of-the-art yacht sank.</li></ul>A search-and-rescue expert said the superyacht disaster that killed <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-tycoon-mike-lynch-confirmed-dead-superyacht-shipwreck-obituary-2024-8">Mike Lynch</a> is difficult to comprehend — because the vessel never should have sunk. <keyword id="19955828" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="lynch" source="keywords">Lynch</keyword>, a British tech tycoon, was celebrating being <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lynch-missing-tech-tycoon-codefendant-died-before-yacht-sank-2024-8">acquitted of fraud</a> with friends and family when the 183-foot ship sank during stormy weather near Palermo, Italy. <div type="image" title="British tech tycoon Mike Lynch smiles for the camera." height="715" width="1024" msid="112718137" hostid="261"></div>Of the 22 people on board, six people, including Lynch, have been confirmed dead. 15 people, including Lynch's wife, were rescued. Lynch's 18-year-old daughter remained unaccounted for as of Thursday afternoon local time. An investigation into the cause of the incident is underway. <h2>'Unsinkable'</h2><keyword id="23113490" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="matthew-schanck" source="keywords">Matthew Schanck</keyword> is a maritime search-and-rescue consultant with 14 years of experience. He told Business Insider that his reaction to the sinking was "disbelief." When the news of the sinking broke, <keyword id="23113489" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="schanck" source="keywords">Schanck</keyword> said he envisioned a far smaller ship — "some sort of 40-foot yacht with a couple on board." "That wouldn't have been as unusual or extraordinary," he said. "It was really shocking. But what's more shocking is the fact that it's a modern, state-of-the-art superyacht, which would have been commercially certified and regulated by the Maritime Coastguard Agency," he said. When the news of the sinking broke, Schanck said he envisioned a far smaller ship — "some sort of 40-foot yacht with a couple on board." The superyacht was worth $40 million, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/world/europe/sicily-yacht-mike-lynch.html">The New York Times reported</a>. Giovanni Costantino is the CEO of The Italian Sea Group, which built the yacht. Speaking to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://news.sky.com/video/boat-experts-disbelief-after-learning-superyacht-sank-in-sicily-13200858">Sky News</a>, Costantino said the sinking sounded "like an unbelievable story, both technically and as a fact." "<keyword id="20930483" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="sailing" source="keywords">Sailing</keyword> ships, it is well known, are the safest in the most absolute sense," he said. They tend, he said, to be "unsinkable." Though the cause of the sinking has not been established, authorities confirmed a strong storm had been in the area. Witnesses told <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0nwe4d7k5o">BBC News</a> they saw a waterspout — an uncommon tornado-like column of wind and water — before the sinking. "This tends to have been the accepted theory, that the vessel was hit by a waterspout and the crew didn't see it coming because it was nighttime and dark," Schanck said. He said that while this scenario makes sense, it's not clear how witnesses would have noticed a waterspout if the crew didn't. Speaking to The Times, Costantino said the ship had the second-tallest aluminum mast in the world, making it safe and secure. However, he said that if any of the doors had been open during the storm, it could have taken on water more easily. Correction: August 22, 2024 — An earlier version of this story misspelled the surname of the search-and-rescue consultant. It's Schanck, not Schank.

Mike Lynch's yacht was state-of-the-art and shouldn't sink so easily, expert says

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Divers are searching for missing people from the sunken superyacht Bayesian near Porticello, Italy.</li><li>An expert told Business Insider they're likely looking for air pockets in the vessel.</li></ul>Divers are searching the sunken superyacht Bayesian for air pockets where survivors might be trapped, but experts and officials say the mission is hampered by dangers and limited time.The search and rescue operation for the six people missing from the Bayesian is continuing, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-tycoon-mike-lynch-missing-sicily-superyacht-sinking-missing-2024-8">after it sank in a sudden storm while anchored off the Italian port of Porticello</a> early Monday.Among the missing is British tech billionaire <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wife-mike-lynch-walk-on-broken-glass-bayesian-superyacht-tilted-2024-8">Mike Lynch</a>. One person has been found dead and 15 were rescued from the vessel.Matthew Schanck, chairman of the UK's Maritime Search and Rescue Council, told Business Insider that with around 36 hours having passed since the sinking, it appeared likely the missing are still on the vessel.He added that relatively calm conditions in the hours after the storm passed and weak sea currents meant they'd likely have been found by now if they were on the sea's surface.Schanck said search and rescue team divers will search the vessel "to see if they can see any casualties through windows or anything like that. They'll assess the structure of the vessel. Are there any air pockets, you know? Is there any noise or any signs of life, and that will factor into their decision-making."Nick Sloane, who worked on the Costa Concordia salvage operation, told <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://news.sky.com/story/superyacht-sinks-latest-search-for-survivors-trapped-in-bayesian-wreckage-enters-critical-24-hours-captain-speaks-out-13199663">Sky News</a> rescue time is running out to find survivors."They've got a very small window of time to try to find people stuck inside with hopefully an air pocket, and they could be rescued," he said."If the yacht is on its side, it might have more air pockets than if it's upright. She's got quite a large keel, and that will deflect and put her on her side, I'm sure," he added.Schanck added that search and rescue leaders would weigh the risk versus the potential for finding survivors in deciding whether to send teams on highly dangerous dives into the sunken vessel."If you heard banging from inside you'd be able to take more risks to save a life. But if all the information is pointing towards the fact actually there's no evidence of air pockets, you've scoured the surface, and we think the casualties are in there, then it'd be very difficult for them justify divers entering the vessel to go and recover casualties," he said.Vincenzo Zagarola, a spokesman for the Italian Coast Guard, told the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/national/24530460.coastguard-fears-bodies-mike-lynch-five-others-trapped-yacht/">PA news agency </a>that the missing would unlikely be found alive."Of course, we do not exclude that they are not inside the boat, but we know the boat sank quickly," he said."We suppose that the six people missing may not have had time to get out of the boat."When asked if there was any hope of finding the missing alive, he reportedly said, "Never say never, but reasonably, the answer should be no."Schanck said there's no strict timeline for assessing when a search and rescue operation should be called off; it's a call made by team leaders based on the evidence available.Lynch was among the UK's best-known tech entrepreneurs. In 2011, he sold his company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion.However, the deal led to a drawn-out legal battle, which resulted in Lynch's acquittal on fraud charges in the US in June.His daughter, Hannah Lynch, is among the missing, while his wife, Angela Bacares, is among the survivors.

Passengers could still be alive in air pockets inside the sunken superyacht. But it's a long shot and time is running out.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Tech tycoon Mike Lynch is missing after his superyacht sank off Sicily during a storm.</li><li>The Bayesian yacht sank near Palermo amid severe weather, with six people still missing.</li></ul><a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-tycoon-mike-lynch-missing-sicily-superyacht-sinking-missing-2024-8">Mike Lynch</a>, a controversial tech tycoon, remains missing after his superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily on Monday.The 183-foot Bayesian superyacht was carrying 22 people when it sank during stormy weather near Porticello, Palermo.Fifteen people were rescued, including Lynch's wife, Angela Bacares. Six passengers remain missing.One body was recovered and is believed to be that of Recaldo Thomas, a Canadian-Antiguan chef who worked on the vessel, according to<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ce38n4egqwzt"> BBC News.</a>Divers on Wednesday entered the superyacht after breaking a window. They now have to contend with narrow corridors and floating debris as they search for survivors.There are several theories about what caused the vessel to sink, but none carry much chance of survival for the missing.<div type="image" title="British tech tycoon Mike Lynch smiles for the camera." height="715" width="1024" msid="112685413" hostid="261" sizebytes="30556"></div><h2 id="22c60495-9880-4ccc-890a-b9003c886e4e">A dangerous weather phenomenon</h2>The City Council of Bagheria said the wreck was likely caused by bad weather in a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.comune.bagheria.pa.it/it/news/naufragio-con-dispersi-al-largo-di-porticello-contattato-il-comune-di-bagheria-per-supporto-alla-popolazione?">press release</a> published on Monday.A strong storm hit the area about an hour before the superyacht sank, it said.Witnesses said they saw a waterspout — a tornado-like column of wind found in water — before the sinking, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0nwe4d7k5o">BBC News</a> reported.According to data from the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.icwr.ca/">International Centre for Waterspout Research</a>, cited by the BBC, there were 18 waterspouts off the coast of Italy on Monday.Matthew Schanck, a maritime search and rescue expert, told Business Insider that the situation was "unprecedented" because it's difficult for meteorologists to predict when waterspouts will occur.Rick Shema, a consulting meteorologist, told <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08/20/bayesian-super-yacht-sinking-experts-puzzled/74873618007/">USA Today</a> that waterspouts are rare and can be triggered by unusually hot weather.Shema said the water was 83.7 degrees, more than three degrees hotter than an average day for the area."Hurricanes can form at 80 degrees. This was almost four degrees higher than that," he said.Tornadoes usually reach up to 300mph, while waterspouts can reach 120mph, Shema said."Even an average tornado, 120 miles an hour, that's a lot of wind," he said, adding that it would "heel the boat over for sure."<h2 id="b4cacf13-b322-4854-b6ae-c460a1afcce1">The ship's mast could have been damaged</h2>Other factors may have contributed to the 56-meter superyacht's fall — but the details are murky.Karsten Borner, the captain of another yacht who witnessed the sinking, told Italy's Corriere della Sera Daily that he saw the ship's mast "bend and then snap," according to part of the interview cited by the BBC.However, Marco Tilotta, a spokesperson for the Palermo fire service divers' unit, told AFP that the ship had been seen lying on its side fully intact, BBC reported."If the mast was broken, that would be a significant thing that would be reported," Schanck told the BBC.Speaking to BI, Schanck said it's possible the mast could have been damaged during the sinking, but the conflicting reports make it difficult to say.He said there's also the question of whether the keel — a weight underneath the boat to keep it balanced and upright — was deployed.Either way, he said the construction of the ship was unlikely to be a contributing factor, as it was "designed and constructed to rigorous international standards.""There's no indication that there's any sort of breach of any international maritime construction or safety standards," he said.<h2 id="3a0895cb-edc7-4998-8dbf-da8cda3e53bf">Open doors and windows</h2>Soaring temperatures in the area may have caused passengers to leave windows and doors open.This would have allowed the yacht to become filled with water quickly during the storm, he said."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," Sam Jefferson, former editor of the magazine Sailing Today, said in an <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/why-did-the-superyacht-bayesian-sink/ar-AA1p70fL">interview</a> with PA."There has been water ingress into this vessel. That's why it's at the bottom of the seabed," Schanck told BI.However, he said it's not possible to say whether this happened because of open doors or windows, structural damage to the mast, or because the ship became "heeled over" during the bad weather.<h2 id="6c37bf7a-501b-4039-9474-26181f933bf8">Survival for the missing is unlikely</h2>Italian authorities are investigating the exact cause of the sinking while search crews continue to look for the missing passengers.A spokesperson for the local fire department told <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/mike-lynch-yacht-sinks-bayesian-sicily-jonathan-bloomer-b2599325.html">The Independent</a> that the search is "complex," adding that divers operate in 12-minute underwater shifts.There could be survivors in the ship's air pockets. However, Schanck told USA Today that the chance of survival for those missing seems unlikely."My professional opinion is that the casualties will be located within the vessel," he said."There is a risk versus benefit in all maritime search and rescue incidents," he said. "Where we start transitioning to a recovery phase, that line shifts."This sentiment was echoed by Luca Cari, a spokesperson for the local fire service. Speaking to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/improbable-sicily-superyacht-missing-survive-air-pockets-rescuer/story?id=113012839">ABC News</a> on Wednesday, Cari said it remains a "rescue operation" rather than a recovery operation. However, he noted that finding survivors in air pockets would be "rather improbable."It's been more than 48 hours since the ship sank. Nick Sloane, an engineer who worked on the Costa Concordia salvage operation in 2014, told <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://news.sky.com/story/superyacht-sinking-friend-of-tycoon-mike-lynch-hoping-for-a-miracle-as-divers-try-to-reach-cabins-of-bayesian-13200422">Sky News</a> that there's only a "very small window of time" to find those who could be stuck in air pockets."You've got a maximum of two to three days to try to get someone out, so the next 24 hours are critical," he said on Wednesday.

There are 3 main reasons Mike Lynch's superyacht may have sunk. None give much hope for finding more survivors.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Four victims of a superyacht that sank off Sicily were likely trapped inside air bubbles, per Italian media.</li><li>The four ran out of oxygen and suffocated, La Repubblica reported, citing autopsy results.</li></ul>Four of the bodies recovered from Mike Lynch's superyacht showed signs that they had been trapped inside air bubbles before suffocating to death, an Italian media report suggested.La Repubblica, citing autopsy results, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/09/04/news/naufragio_palermo_morti_ossigeno_cabina_autopsie_news-423478853/?ref=RHLF-BG-P9-S1-T1">reported</a> that four of the seven victims who died after British tech tycoon Mike Lynch's superyacht <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lynch-40-million-yacht-unsinkable-experts-rescue-2024-8">sank</a> off the coast of Sicily last month died of "atypical drowning."The autopsies found no water in their lungs, trachea, or stomach, which suggested that they ran out of oxygen while stuck inside air pockets in one of the yacht's cabins, per the outlet.Pathologists of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of Parlermo's Polyclinic carried out the autopsies on the bodies of lawyer Chris Morvillo, his wife Neda, Morgan Stanley's International chair Jonathan Bloomer, and his wife Judy on Monday and Tuesday, the report said.Tiziana Lenzo, a press officer for Parlermo's Polyclinic, told BI the hospital was not allowed to comment on the autopsy results due to investigative secrecy.The 183-foot Bayesian superyacht sank on August 19 during stormy weather near Porticello, prompting the Italian Coast Guard to launch a search-and-rescue effort.Fifteen out of 22 people on board survived, while seven — including Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter — were <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/5-bodies-found-same-cabin-mike-lynch-superyacht-investigators-2024-8">confirmed</a> dead.Matthew Schanck, chairman of the UK's Maritime Search and Rescue Council, told BI last month, while the rescue efforts were still ongoing, that divers were likely <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/passengers-may-alive-air-pockets-inside-sunken-superyacht-bayesian-lynch-2024-8">searching</a> for air pockets where survivors may be located.Meanwhile, Nick Sloane, who worked on the Costa Concordia salvage operation, told <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/passengers-may-alive-air-pockets-inside-sunken-superyacht-bayesian-lynch-2024-8">Sky News</a> at the time that divers had a "very small" window of time to try to locate anyone stuck inside, hopefully in "an air pocket."In the aftermath of the sinking, some have criticized the crew for their supposed shortcomings.Giovanni Costantino, the CEO of the Italian Sea Group, which owns Perini Navi, the firm that built the Bayesian in 2008, blamed crew members for not following protocol and failing to prepare for the storm.Costantino told the <a target="_blank" rel="" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/superyacht-disaster-mike-lynch-16-minutes-sink-italian-sea-group-2024-8">Financial Times</a> that the yacht went down in 16 minutes and that it was "designed to be absolutely stable."Franco Romani, a nautical architect who was part of the team that designed the yacht, told <a target="_blank" rel=" nofollow" class="" href="https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2024/08/26/news/franco_romani_architetto_dello_yacht_bayesian_credo_che_il_portellone_laterale_fosse_aperto-14581289/#google_vignette">La Stampa</a> that the Bayesian was built to go to sea in "any weather" and that a side hatch left open could have let water enter the vessel, per Reuters.During a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/5-bodies-found-same-cabin-mike-lynch-superyacht-investigators-2024-8">press conference</a> last month, investigators said five bodies had been discovered in the same cabin.Italian prosecutors said they had opened a manslaughter investigation following the sinking.The captain of the yacht, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lynch-superyacht-captain-investigated-prosecutors-report-shipwreck-deaths-2024-8">James Cutfield</a>, and two Britons, engineer Tim Parker Eaton and crew member Matthew Griffiths, have been placed under investigation, per <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://news.sky.com/story/bayesian-superyacht-sinking-banking-boss-and-wife-suffocated-to-death-in-air-bubble-as-oxygen-ran-out-13209849">Sky News</a>.

4 victims on Mike Lynch's yacht were trapped inside air bubbles before suffocating, report suggests

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Mike Lynch and at least five others are dead after his superyacht sank off Sicily.</li><li>The Bayesian sank during a storm. The Italian Sea Group CEO said the yacht took 16 minutes to sink.</li></ul>The maker of <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-tycoon-mike-lynch-confirmed-dead-superyacht-shipwreck-obituary-2024-8">Mike Lynch's superyacht,</a> which sank off the coast of Sicily, said it was "absolutely stable" and that it never should have gone down.The 183-foot ship — named the Bayesian — sank during stormy weather near Palermo, Italy, in the early hours of Monday morning local time.Fifteen people, including <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wife-mike-lynch-walk-on-broken-glass-bayesian-superyacht-tilted-2024-8?mrfhud=true">Lynch's wife</a>, were rescued, while six others, including Lynch, have been confirmed dead.Divers discovered the body of the final person missing from the superyacht on Friday, the Italian Coastguard said, according to reports, which would bring the total to seven.Lynch's 18-year-old daughter Hannah was the only person still unaccounted for.<div type="image" title="British tech tycoon Mike Lynch smiles for the camera and is wearing a suit." height="715" width="1024" msid="112739504" hostid="261" sizebytes="30556"></div>Giovanni Costantino, the chief executive of The Italian Sea Group, which owns Perini Navi, the Bayesian's builder, said the ship was "designed to be absolutely stable" as it had the second-tallest mast in the world."The torture lasted 16 minutes. It went down, not in one minute as some scientists have said. It went down in 16 minutes," Costantino told the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.ft.com/content/cb83948a-1447-4eb7-8c29-27d1c78b6c23">Financial Times</a>. "You can see it from the charts, from the [Automatic Identification System] tracking chart."Business Insider could not independently verify his statement.Costantino added that the yacht's skipper "should have locked everything up. He should have gathered all passengers in the safe point. This is protocol. No one should have been in their cabin."An investigation into the exact cause of the sinking is ongoing. Authorities previously confirmed a strong storm had been in the area, though search-and-rescue experts have suggested that multiple factors could have contributed to the disaster.One <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/search-superyacht-sicily-mike-lynch-sink-causes-bayesian-survivors-2024-8">theory</a> is that soaring temperatures in the area caused passengers and crew to leave windows and doors open, which would have allowed water to fill the ship quickly during the storm."The boat sank because it took on water," Costantino said.He added that a large opening just above the waterline on the stern could have been left open and become flooded.Out of the 15 who escaped, nine were crew members. One of the crew, a chef named Recaldo Thomas, was confirmed dead on Monday.Stephen Askins, a lawyer specializing in maritime cases, told <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13764771/why-did-majority-superyacht-crew-survive-passengers-missing.html">MailOnline</a> that the crew was likely already awake before the ship sunk, while the passengers may have been sleeping below deck."The water came in from [hatchways] left open," Costantino told FT. "There is no other possible explanation. If maneuvered properly, the boat would have comfortably handled the weather — comfortably."Matthew Schanck, a maritime search-and-rescue consultant, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lynch-40-million-yacht-unsinkable-experts-rescue-2024-8">previously told BI</a> that the disaster was "shocking" because Lynch's vessel was a "modern, state-of-the-art superyacht" that would have been commercially certified with the appropriate safety regulations in place.Witnesses told <a target="_blank" rel=" nofollow" class="" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0nwe4d7k5o">BBC News</a> they saw a waterspout — an uncommon weather phenomenon consisting of tornadolike wind and water — before the ship went down."This tends to have been the accepted theory, that the vessel was hit by a waterspout and the crew didn't see it coming because it was nighttime and dark," Schanck said.He added that this scenario made sense but questioned how witnesses would have noticed a waterspout if the crew hadn't seen it.

The maker of Mike Lynch's yacht says it took 16 minutes to sink and the crew should have had time to rescue passengers

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A deadly superyacht sinking off the coast of Italy during a storm will likely spark legal drama, experts said.</li><li>Maritime legal experts say lawsuits are likely, but negligence would need to be established.</li></ul>The operator of the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-tycoon-mike-lynch-missing-sicily-superyacht-sinking-missing-2024-8">superyacht that sank</a> during a violent storm off the coast of Italy this week is likely to face legal troubles over the deadly tragedy, according to maritime law experts.But the success of any potential lawsuit is up for debate.Three maritime legal experts told Business Insider that the operator and owner behind the now-sunken luxury sailing yacht called the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/search-superyacht-sicily-mike-lynch-sink-causes-bayesian-survivors-2024-8">Bayesian</a> should lawyer up in anticipation of possible claims from families of the dead or the survivors themselves."There's always the possibility of claims when there's a casualty," said Martin Davies, the director of the Maritime Law Center at Tulane University School of Law in Louisiana. But based on what is currently known about the incident, Davies said it is "unlikely that any claims would succeed."Michael Sturley, an expert in maritime law and professor at the University of Texas at Austin's School of Law, agreed. "Based on what we know now, I would not be optimistic about the chances for any claims," he said.However, Sturley noted, "There is still a lot that we don't know."Bad weather does not automatically absolve a party of liability, but it would be challenging to make a wrongful death or personal injury claim as negligence would need to be established, according to the experts."Under English law, they'd have to prove fault and I don't think there's much prospect of anyone proving fault," said Davies."Bad weather at sea is not at all unexpected, which is why you can't just simply say bad weather and hope to get off the hook," Davies said. "What seems different about this case is that it came suddenly."Still, said Oregon-based maritime lawyer Gordon Carey, "It doesn't spell defeat" for a potential legal claim "just because it's a weather event."<h2 id="263a06c2-cf3c-4cfa-b1f9-87e01f3a92e2">The yacht was carrying 22, including UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch and a Morgan Stanley exec</h2>The British-registered 184-foot yacht was anchored about a half-mile off the Italian port of Porticello near Palermo, Sicily, and carrying 22 people, including UK tech tycoon <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lynch-missing-tech-tycoon-codefendant-died-before-yacht-sank-2024-8">Mike Lynch</a>, when a fierce storm hit and quickly sank the vessel just after 4 a.m. on Monday, according to reports.The body of the yacht's chef, Recaldo Thomas, was found on Monday. Six other passengers — Lynch; his 18-year-old daughter Hannah; Lynch's friend and Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer; Bloomer's wife, Judy; Lynch's attorney <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lynch-lawyer-christopher-morvillo-wife-dead-yacht-bayesian-2024-8">Christopher Morvillo</a> and Morvillo's wife Neda — went missing during the disaster.Divers on Wednesday <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2-bodies-found-divers-inside-mike-lynch-sunken-superyacht-2024-8">found the bodies of five of the missing</a> inside the sunken yacht that was around 164 feet below the surface.Lynch's wife, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wife-mike-lynch-walk-on-broken-glass-bayesian-superyacht-tilted-2024-8">Angela Bacares</a>, was among the 15 people who were rescued in the aftermath of the tragedy. Reports said Lynch had been on the boat <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-20/mike-lynch-was-celebrating-his-acquittal-when-violent-storm-hit">celebrating </a>his recent <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-life-of-mike-lynch-autonomy-hp-2017-5">acquittal on fraud charges</a> in the US.According to the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://apnews.com/article/italy-sicily-bayesian-lynch-hewlett-packard-9f4f3b6d7b48bb3c76dd98e35ab973c1">Associated Press</a>, documents show Bacares as the sole owner of Revtom Ltd., the Isle of Man-registered company that the online international maritime database Equasis lists as the owner of the Bayesian.The Bayesian was being managed by the global yachting company Camper &amp; Nicholsons. In a statement posted to its website, the company said it can "confirm that the vessel encountered severe weather conditions and subsequently sank near Palermo, Italy."There were a total of 10 crew members and 12 guests on board, it said."Our priority is assisting with the ongoing search and providing all necessary support to the rescued passengers and crew," the company said.It was not immediately clear who the captain and crew of the vessel were employed by. Camper &amp; Nicholsons declined to comment beyond the statement posted online.The maritime legal experts BI spoke to said that the operator of the Bayesian could potentially face liability claims, depending on the circumstances, if it hired the captain and crew and managed the vessel.Davies said a boat like the Bayesian is bound to have "all kinds of insurance.""And so someone may make a claim in the hope of getting some money from the insurance," he said.<h2 id="c753b0d3-8140-4158-a5e3-35810237acc1">English law would likely apply if any claims were made</h2>According to Davies, it is more likely that English law would apply should the family of any of the victims or a survivor try to take legal action since the yacht was a UK-flagged vessel. US law could be applied if jurisdiction could be established, said Davies and others.Under US law, crew members, not passengers, could potentially make an "unseaworthiness" claim, according to the maritime experts."The advantage of unseaworthiness is it's a strict liability claim," said Sturley. "You don't have to prove negligence. For other losses, you'd have to prove negligence."To make an unseaworthiness claim, Davies explained, "you'd have to argue that there's something about the vessel that makes it unfit to withstand a sudden storm like this."However, he said, "I find it hard to see there was any unseaworthiness of the vessel here."Also under US law, the families of the dead could potentially make a legal claim under the Death on the High Seas Act, the experts said."People are supposed to take precautions against weather, but you take precautions that are reasonable under the circumstances, and sometimes you have a freak weather event that nobody could see coming, and it would not have been reasonable to have guarded against that," Sturley said.He added, "Nobody prepares for hurricanes in the Sahara Desert. And if a hurricane happens to hit the Sahara Desert, that doesn't mean that people who didn't guard against it were negligent."The AP <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://apnews.com/article/yacht-bayesian-lynch-sicily-waterspout-missing-sinking-7eb9496d2f22f85b82e9cfccaa397657">reported</a> that Italian civil protection officials believe that a tornado-like waterspout hit where the yacht was anchored, likely causing it to capsize."If it was a water spout, which it appears to be, it's what I would class as like a 'black swan' event," Matthew Schanck, chair of the UK-based Maritime Search and Rescue Council told the AP.

The superyacht tragedy will likely spark legal drama

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Rescue efforts will not stop when the Titan's 96 hours of oxygen are up, USCG said.</li><li>There may be ways in which the crew can conserve oxygen, an expert told Insider.</li></ul>The search-and-rescue effort to recover the <a href="https://www.insider.com/what-happened-to-the-titanic-submersible-experts-explain-likely-scenarios-2023-6">missing Titan submersible</a> will carry on beyond the 96 hours of oxygen it had, the US Coast Guard has confirmed. "We will be continuing the search today," a spokesperson for USCG told Insider. A press conference has been put on hold and is not expected to take place today, they added."We'll always continue searching until we are absolutely certain that there is going to be no chance of survival," Matthew Schanck, search-and-rescue expert and founder of MarSAR International, told Insider Wednesday.The crew onboard includes the <a href="https://www.insider.com/who-is-stockton-rush-lost-ceo-titan-submarine-oceangate-titanic-2023-6" rel="">CEO of OceanGate expeditions</a>, <a href="https://www.insider.com/hamish-harding-billionaire-titanic-submersible-titan-space-tourist-blue-origin-2023-6" rel="">a British billionaire adventurer,</a> a <a href="https://www.insider.com/french-diver-paul-henry-nargeolet-on-board-missing-titanic-submersible-2023-6" rel="">French diver and explorer</a>, and a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/20/world/hamish-harding-titanic-tourist-sub-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">father and son</a> from Pakistan.Experts have <a href="https://www.insider.com/titanic-tourist-submersible-96-hours-of-oxygen-left-coast-guard-2023-6">estimated</a> the crew could run out of oxygen Thursday, but rescuers aren't giving up hope."There may be ways in which they can conserve that [air], especially having the likes of the French Navy diver on board who will know potentially some sort of strategies and tactics they can use to try and conserve the air on board," said Schanck, who is not involved in the rescue effort. Oxygen consumption can vary substantially depending on how the passengers could be behaving, experts previously <a href="https://www.insider.com/titanic-sub-how-to-control-breathing-in-emergency-2023-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">told Insider</a>.If they lost power to their heaters, the crew would likely be cold, and their shivering could <a href="https://www.insider.com/how-long-people-live-survive-limited-oxygen-supply-2023-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">increase</a> their oxygen consumption, Mike Tipton, head of the extreme environments laboratory at Portsmouth University, UK, said.It's important for the search-and-rescue team to stay motivated by the hope that the crew members could be brought home, he added."We have to remain optimistic and hopeful," Capt. Jamie Frederick, the response coordinator for the First Coast Guard District said during a news conference Wednesday, per CNN. But even in the worst-case scenario, if all hope for the crew's survival is lost, the search effort would likely carry on, he said. "That's also important is bringing somebody home even if they don't make it," he said. Nevertheless, the search-and-rescue mission could eventually be called off without finding the ship. "I'd like to think that we would be able to locate the craft and the people, but we should also be prepared for every eventuality," he said. That includes "the potential that they may not be found given the depths and the complexity of the situation," said Schanck.The search area for the missing submersible covers about twice the surface of Connecticut at this point, and stretches down under the surface as deep as 2-and-a-half miles, Frederick said, per CNN.

US Coast Guard says it will keep looking for Titanic sub through Thursday despite its 96 hours of oxygen being up

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The US Navy detected a likely implosion around the time the Titan sub went missing. </li><li>It hinted at disaster — but was inconclusive and officials still launched a massive search.</li></ul>In an interview Thursday, "Titanic" director James Cameron blasted the four-day search for the Titan submersible as a "prolonged nightmarish charade."It was, he argued, obviously from the get-go that the vessel was lost."For the sub's electronics to fail and its communication system to fail, and its tracking transponder to fail simultaneously – sub's gone," <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-65994825" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he told the BBC,</a> citing conversations he had with experts soon after it vanished.The rescue operation ended Thursday when a drone scouring the sea bed found remains of the vessel, which was carrying five people. The wreckage showed the signs of a catastrophic, unsurvivable implosion.Cameron's remarks <a href="https://www.insider.com/navy-detected-titanic-subs-implosion-soon-after-went-missing-wsj-2023-6">follow reports Thursday that the US Navy</a> also had early reason to believe the sub was lost.Data from its undersea-monitoring systems indicated the vessel imploded soon after setting off on Sunday, multiple reports said, information soon handed to US Coast Guard, which led the search.<div type="image" title="A side view of the Titan submersible in water." height="550" width="734" msid="101222781" hostid="261" sizebytes="38140"></div>So why did the Coast Guard still launch a vast search-and-rescue operation?In a statement Thursday, the Navy said its data had not been definitive — leaving open the possibility that someone was still alive.After analysis, "the decision was made to continue our mission as a search and rescue and make every effort to save the lives on board," the statement said. Matthew Schanck, the director of MarSAR, a UK-based search-and-rescue consultancy, told Insider that this uncertainty, and the absence of physical evidence from the Titan, was crucial in the decision to search anyway."What they did was right. Now, if there was debris located very early on, on the surface let's say or something like that, we'd be having a different conversation. But until we had any physical evidence that there has been a catastrophic incident that we could say happened to the craft, we have to carry out a search and rescue operations," he said. Schanck said that banging sounds detected during the search would have factored into the decision to keep searching even after several days had passed — even though the noises later found to probably be a false lead.He said he was surprised the Navy did not go public sooner with its information. One reason might be to preserve the morale of those searching, he said. "Dispatching crews searching for extended periods of time, searching wide expanses of the ocean, on the surface and underneath — it could be hard to keep people motivated and focused," Schanck said. His comments echo those of Paul Zukunft, a retired Coast Guard admiral, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/22/titan-submersible-navy-sensors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who spoke to The Washington Post. </a>Zukunft said the Coast Guard would generally keep searching for survivors until it's "absolutely conclusive" that there are none."We're making every attempt that if there's a surface recovery; we are there," he said.He compared the search for the Titan to the operation launched by the Coast Guard in 2015 for the El Faro, a cargo ship that went missing after getting caught in Hurricane Joaquin between Puerto Rico and Florida. Despite pessimistic data indicating that the ship sank, Coast Guard crews still launched a search-and-rescue operation. It that case there were also no survivors, with 33 lives lost."For one or two people, we will literally spend millions of dollars in attempts to rescue these folks," he said.

Why there was still a huge search for the missing sub even though the Navy learned quickly that it probably imploded

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The US Coast Guard is continuing its search for the lost Titan sub even after its oxygen likely ran out.</li><li>Rear Adm. John Mauger told TODAY that rescue efforts will continue. </li></ul>The US Coast Guard is <a href="https://www.insider.com/expert-missing-titan-sub-search-carry-oxygen-submersible-titanic-2023-6">continuing its search for the lost Titanic sub</a>, saying that although oxygen on the vessel has likely run out, "people's will to live" is an important factor. On Thursday morning, Coast Guard commander Rear Adm. John Mauger told the "TODAY" show that the situation is similar to other complex rescue operations and that even if the submersible is running low on oxygen, "People's will to live really needs to be accounted for, as well."<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—TODAY (@TODAYshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1671843427141443586">June 22, 2023</a></blockquote>Mauger, who is spearheading the search, added that new assets and capabilities to help find the sub are being used in the search on Thursday.Early Thursday morning, a USCG spokesperson told Insider that search-and-rescue efforts will continue after the 96 hours of oxygen on the sub likely run out. "We'll always continue searching until we are absolutely certain that there is going to be no chance of survival," Matthew Schanck, search-and-rescue expert and founder of MarSAR International, also told Insider.

Coast Guard is keeping up the search for the missing Titanic sub, saying they need to account for 'people's will to live' as oxygen levels run out

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The noises have raised the hope that the five passengers on the Titan sub are still alive. </li><li>But experts disagree on whether the noises could have come from the sub. </li></ul>Underwater noises <a href="https://www.insider.com/hope-from-noise-titanic-sub-search-grasping-straws-expert-2023-6">detected</a> in the search-and-rescue mission for the Titan submersible have offered hope in finding the five crew members trapped inside.The US Coast Guard <a href="https://www.insider.com/plane-searching-for-missing-titanic-sub-detects-noises-underwater-uscg-2023-6">confirmed</a> Wednesday it picked up suspicious underwater sounds using sonobuoys. Some <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/titanic-submersible-missing-searchers-heard-banging-1234774674/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> say the banging sounds were heard at 30-minute intervals. As rescuers race to find the source of the noise, experts remain divided over whether the sounds are from the sub or something else entirely. Here are the leading theories about what could be causing them.<h2>1. Crew members trapped in the Titan are banging on its hull</h2>The search for the<a href="https://www.insider.com/missing-titanic-tourist-submersible-titan-piloted-gamepad-controller-2023-6" rel=""> Titan submersible</a> that has been missing since Sunday has now picked up pace, with experts predicting the crew may have run out of their available oxygen reserves. If a report by Rolling Stones is correct, the noises were heard in a pattern, with banging detected every 30 minutes. This could point to a human source. "There's not a lot in the natural world we can think of that would do that every 30-minute cycle," deep-sea explorer David Gallo told ITV's Good Morning Britain."We have to, at this point, assume that's the submarine."Stefan B. Williams, a professor of marine robotics at the University of Sydney told Insider banging on the hull has been used by marooned submariners before."There have been reports when there have been issues with submarines where the sailors will bang on the hull and that acoustic noise will travel," he said. Frank Owen, a submarine search-and-rescue expert, told the BBC his "confidence went up by an order of magnitude" when he heard the reports.Crewmembers onboard might be familiar with protocols to attract attention from the surface, including seasoned underwater diver PH Nargeolet, he noted.<h2>2. The noises are coming from the Titanic shipwreck</h2><div type="image" title="A shot of the Titanic wreck in 1996." height="3490" width="4653" msid="101191914" hostid="261"></div>Not everyone agrees the noises could be made by the crew. The hull of the submersible is said to be made of carbon fiber, which would more likely make an undetectable "dull thud" than a tapping noise, Former Rear Admiral Chris Parry, a retired officer in Britain's Royal Navy, told <a href="https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1671403292507734017" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Talk TV. </a>The sonobuoys' operators would be trained to differentiate noises typically heard in the ocean from noises made by trapped survivors. But the Titanic shipwreck itself may be sending out its own noises, some experts claim."You get a lot of mechanical noise in the ocean," Parry told TalkTV. "Trying to differentiate it from tapping noises, as it were, I'm afraid is a fool's errand."Matthew Schanck, search and rescue expert and founder of MarSAR International told Insider Wednesday: "We've gotta be cautious not to get too excited that this sound is coming from the craft," "There's a massive metal wreck down there — the Titanic — the banging could be something as simple as a piece of that moving in the current or something to do with the wreck itself," said Schanck.Even if the wreck isn't making the noises itself, it may be changing the sounds that would naturally be picked up underwater, Jeff Karson, Professor Emeritus of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Syracuse University told <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12220611/Sonar-expert-says-banging-heard-sub-search-site-debris-falling-decaying-wreck.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MailOnline</a>. "One possibility is that the sounds bouncing around the debris. And so it's a more complicated echo," he said. <h2>3. Marine life could contribute to the background noise</h2>One possibility is that marine wildlife "like whales" could be contributing to the noises, said Williams. However, it's likely the operators would be trained to distinguish these from noises made by the crew, Carl Hartsfield, a laboratory director at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/us/underwater-noise-search-submersible.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times.</a>"From my experience with acoustics, there are sounds by biologics that sound man-made to the untrained ear," he told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/us/underwater-noise-search-submersible.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times.</a> "But I can assure you that the people listening to these tapes are trained."<h2>The sounds are the search team's best hope of finding the sub</h2>Even if experts disagree on whether the noise could be coming from the submersible, it's somewhat of a moot point, Schanck said. "We have no way at this stage of proving that that noise is coming from the craft, but in search or rescue, you have to use whatever you get given to your advantage," he said. "For instance, on a surface search, if you are looking for a person in the water and you find a shoe floating, you use that as a sign," he said. "That's information we can use to try and narrow our search area down," he said. The First Coast Guard District has deployed remotely operated vehicle equipment to a site where it thought the noises could have been coming from, Capt. Jamie Frederick, the response coordinator, said <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/americas/live-news/titanic-missing-sub-oceangate-06-21-23/h_9258d5aa52b51b79f79a6143882a7b1c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per CNN</a>.But searches in the area have "yielded negative results," and an analysis of the data picked up by the sonobuoys has so far been "inconclusive," Frederick said per CNN."We don't know what they are," he said. Still, the US Coast Guard told Insider Thursday the search will <a href="https://www.insider.com/expert-missing-titan-sub-search-carry-oxygen-submersible-titanic-2023-6">continue</a> even beyond the time experts have estimated the oxygen would run out. "We have to remain optimistic and hopeful," Capt. Jamie Frederick, the response coordinator for the First Coast Guard District said during a news conference Wednesday, per CNN.

There are 3 theories for the banging sounds heard in the search for the Titanic sub. None has experts truly convinced.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>On Thursday, OceanGate Expeditions said that the five passengers aboard the Titan sub are<a href="https://www.insider.com/passengers-titan-submersible-dead-oceangate-titanic-2023-6"> dead.</a></li><li>The announcement was made after rescue officials found <a href="https://www.insider.com/titanic-sub-had-catastrophic-loss-of-pressure-chamber-coast-guard-2023-6">debris linked to the vessel.</a></li></ul><a href="https://www.insider.com/titanic-sub-had-catastrophic-loss-of-pressure-chamber-coast-guard-2023-6">Debris</a> from a <a href="https://www.insider.com/missing-titanic-tourist-submersible-titan-piloted-gamepad-controller-2023-6">tourist submersible</a> headed to the Titanic shipwreck was discovered on Thursday, and the vessel's <a href="https://www.insider.com/titanic-sub-passengers-missing-passengers-whos-on-board-oceangate-submersible-2023-6">five passengers</a> likely faced a grim final moment.The 23,000-pound Titan vessel, owned by <a href="https://oceangate.com/our-subs/titan-submersible.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">OceanGate Expeditions</a>, went off the radar about one hour and 45 minutes into its descent off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the US Coast Guard said. On Thursday, after rescue officials linked debris to the missing vessel, OceanGate announced that the passengers aboard the ship <a href="https://www.insider.com/passengers-titan-submersible-dead-oceangate-titanic-2023-6">are believed to be dead.</a>The crew included the <a href="https://www.insider.com/who-is-stockton-rush-lost-ceo-titan-submarine-oceangate-titanic-2023-6">CEO of OceanGate expeditions</a>, <a href="https://www.insider.com/hamish-harding-billionaire-titanic-submersible-titan-space-tourist-blue-origin-2023-6">a British billionaire adventurer,</a> a <a href="https://www.insider.com/french-diver-paul-henry-nargeolet-on-board-missing-titanic-submersible-2023-6">French diver and explorer</a>, and a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/20/world/hamish-harding-titanic-tourist-sub-intl/index.html">father and son</a> from Pakistan.Here were the three scenarios experts believed could have happened when the vessel lost contact.<h2>1. Titan has suffered a 'catastrophic implosion'</h2><div type="image" title="A photo of the Titan submersible." height="1000" width="2000" msid="101141667" hostid="261"></div>There has likely been some type of "catastrophic failure" to the Titan sub, Stefan Williams, a professor of marine robotics at the University of Sydney whose lab works with uncrewed submersibles, told Insider.That could be due to a leak or a power failure. There's also a chance a small fire from an electrical short circuit may have compromised the vehicle's electronic systems, which are used for navigation and control of the vessel, Williams <a href="https://theconversation.com/missing-titanic-sub-what-are-submersibles-how-do-they-communicate-and-what-may-have-gone-wrong-208100" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a blog post about the submersible.The worst-case scenario is that the pressure hull was breached, <a href="https://www.insider.com/titanic-sub-had-catastrophic-loss-of-pressure-chamber-coast-guard-2023-6">leading to a "catastrophic implosion,"</a> Williams said."It would happen quite quickly, and there would be little chance of surviving," he added. A submarine pilot hired to assess the <a href="https://www.insider.com/titanic-submersible-only-warns-milliseconds-before-hull-failure-fired-executive-2023-6">Titanic submersible</a> warned in 2018 that its hull monitoring system would only detect failure "often milliseconds before an implosion."Coast Guard officials said Thursday they're still investigating what happened before the implosion.<h2>2. It has become tangled in the wreckage of the Titanic</h2>The Titan, which was powered by electric thrusters, could carry five people to a depth of 13,123 feet, according to the <a href="https://oceangate.com/our-subs/titan-submersible.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OceanGate website</a>. One scenario was that the Titan could have still been intact and its passengers alive, but the vessel may have become stuck near the bottom of the ocean. It could, for instance, have gotten tangled in the wreckage of the Titanic, which lies at about 12,500 feet underwater. Frank Owen, a retired Royal Australian Navy official and a project director for submarine escape and rescue, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/20/missing-titanic-sub-titan-submersible-tourist-oceangate-what-is-it-and-what-might-have-happened">told The Guardian</a> that the wreckage on the ocean floor "is surrounded by debris from the disaster more than a century ago.""There are parts of it all over the place. It's dangerous," he said. This prospect was unlikely, but not impossible, Williams told Insider.<h2>3. Titan may be bobbing around on the surface</h2>This would have been the "best-case scenario," Williams told Insider Tuesday.He said there was a possibility the Titan had resurfaced and was waiting to be found. "That's seeming increasingly unlikely as time goes past," he added. The retired Navy Rear Adm. Chris Parry <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/titanic-submarine-missing-live-updates-submersible-cannot-be-opened-from-inside-time-running-out-on-oxygen-supply-waiver-mentions-death-three-times-12905748" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Sky News Tuesday</a> that if the vessel had come to the surface, it "would have been found by now."And by Thursday, officials said that the debris from the vessel was found some 1,600 feet away from the Titanic shipwreck site — ruling out that possibility.<h2>Underwater banging provided hope the passengers are still alive — but experts were divided</h2>The US Coast Guard <a href="https://www.insider.com/plane-searching-for-missing-titanic-sub-detects-noises-underwater-uscg-2023-6">confirmed</a> on Wednesday they picked up suspicious underwater sounds using sonobuoys, sensitive microphones strapped to buoys dropped from planes flying over the search area.<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/titanic-submersible-missing-searchers-heard-banging-1234774674/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Rolling Stone previously reported</a> that searchers on a Canadian aircraft detected "banging" at 30-minute intervals coming from the area where the submersible went missing.Experts analyzed <a href="https://www.insider.com/titanic-sub-banging-sounds-experts-noises-theories-for-source-titan-2023-6">the noise</a> to determine whether it can be traced back to its source, said Williams. "It sort of opens the possibility that they're still alive and gives you some hope, but of course, we're closing in on the end of their window of the available air," Williams said Wednesday morning."So even if they are alive and they can locate the submarine, they still have a fairly difficult task of trying to get it back up to the surface," said Williams. A submarine search and rescue expert said the sounds could suggest the vessel is closer to the surface than initially feared.Frank Owen, a submarine search-and-rescue expert told the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-65972610" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBC</a> his "confidence went up by an order of magnitude" when he heard the reports.On Thursday, the Coast Guard said there "doesn't appear to be any connection between the noises and the location on the sea floor."<h2>Conditions in the sub would be very dire</h2>Had the teams been able to locate the craft, they would still have needed to come up with a strategy to pull it up from such depths, which has never been done before."There are very few vessels that can get that deep, and certainly not divers," Alistair Greig, a professor of marine engineering at University College London, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/20/missing-titanic-sub-titan-submersible-tourist-oceangate-what-is-it-and-what-might-have-happened" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">told The Guardian</a>.Experts had previously estimated the crew's oxygen reserves would be running out around Thursday morning. Still, the US Coast Guard told Insider Thursday the search will <a href="https://www.insider.com/expert-missing-titan-sub-search-carry-oxygen-submersible-titanic-2023-6">continue</a> at least through the end of the day."We have to remain optimistic and hopeful," Capt. Jamie Frederick, the response coordinator for the First Coast Guard District said during a news conference Wednesday, per CNN.Matthew Schanck, search and rescue expert and founder of MarSAR International, told Insider members of the crew included a seasoned diver — PH Nargeolet — who might have known how to best conserve oxygen until the very last moment, so the estimate that oxygen could run out by midday might not be accurate, Schanck said."We'll always continue searching until we are absolutely certain that there is going to be no chance of survival," he said.

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