'Black box' reveals exactly what happened in last 16 minutes aboard Bayesian superyacht
The final 16 minutes onboard the Bayesian yacht have been revealed as the boat's black-box data has been analysed by police probing the sinking disaster.
The information recovered from the Bayesian's Automatic Identification System (AIS) breaks down exactly how it sank in a painful 16-minute timeline.
An AIS tracking system sends information from onboard boats to coastal stations, alerting officials to movement and distress. As part of a probe into just how the luxury 184ft yacht toppled and plunged to the bottom of the sea, killing at least six people, cops are analysing the data.
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It comes as divers recovered the body of the final missing passenger from the wreck - Brit teen Hannah Lynch - daughter of tycoon Mike Lynch, who was retrieved on Thursday (August 22), the Mirror reports.
The data reveals that at 3.50am on Monday the Bayesian began to shake 'dangerously' during a fierce storm, Italian outlet Corriere reports. Just minutes later at 3.59am the boat's anchor gave way, with a source saying the data showed there was 'no anchor left to hold'.
After the ferocious weather ripped away the boat's mooring it was dragged some 358 metres through the water. By 4am it had began to take on water and was plunged into a blackout, indicating that the waves had reached its generator or even engine room. At 4.05am the Bayesian fully disappeared underneath the waves.
An emergency GPS signal was finally emitted at 4.06am to the coastguard station in Bari, a city nearby, alerting them that the vessel had sunk. Survivors and witnesses from a small nearby boat - along with official reports - initially helped piece