Sicily Yacht Victims Died of "Dry Drowning" From Running Out of Oxygen

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Following the Bayesian yacht’s tragic sinking, much accusation has emerged connected the origin of decease of 4 of the 7 victims who drowned successful the Aug. 19 accident.  

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More accusation has been shared connected the deaths of the Sicily yacht victims.  

The initial autopsies of 4 of the 7 victims who died when the Bayesian yacht sank past month—cook Recaldo Thomas, spouses Christopher Morvillo and Neda Morvillo, Morgan Stanley International Chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy Bloomer as good arsenic tech mogul Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah—have revealed they died of “dry drowning,” CNN reported, citing authorities.   

The uncovering suggests, per CNN citing section media reports, that these 4 victims—couples Christopher and Neda arsenic good arsenic Jonathan and Judy, per officials—had recovered an aerial bubble successful the compartment successful which they were recovered and had consumed each the oxygen earlier the aerial pouch turned toxic owed to c dioxide.

The outlet further cited reports saying the autopsies for Mike and his 18-year-old girl are apt to beryllium carried retired Sept. 6, portion the autopsy for cook Recaldo is connected clasp owed to trouble successful reaching his household successful Antigua. 

E! News has reached retired to the nationalist prosecutor's bureau of Termini Imerese, which assigned the autopsies, arsenic good arsenic the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the Policlinico for remark but has not yet heard back.  

It was antecedently confirmed that spouses Christopher and Neda died together, Italian quality enactment ANSA confirmed Sept. 2, and that the autopsies exhibited “no signs of trauma” and determination are “no different causes linked” to their deaths.  

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At the clip of its Aug. 19 sinking, the 184-foot Bayesian yacht had 22 radical aboard successful total, including 12 guests and 10 unit members. The sinking, which has been described by maritime experts arsenic anomalous, occurred owed to harsh upwind conditions, including a waterspout, Salvo Cocina of Sicily's civilian extortion bureau told NBC News.

As Salvo noted of the ship, “They were successful the incorrect spot astatine the incorrect time.”  

In the weeks pursuing the tragedy, skipper James Cutfield has been placed nether probe for manslaughter pursuing the incident, arsenic confirmed by his lawyer Giovanni Rizzuti to NBC News. However, that does not mean helium volition look charges.

As NBC News noted, being placed nether probe successful Italy does not connote guilt and does not warrant ceremonial charges volition follow. Instead, notices request to beryllium sent to radical nether probe earlier authorities could transportation retired autopsies.

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One of the survivors of the sinking Charlotte Golunski—who survived alongside her partner James Emsley and her 12-month-old daughter Sophie—previously detailed the terrifying moment the vessel was deed by the storm. "

For 2 seconds, I mislaid my girl successful the sea, past rapidly hugged her amid the fury of the waves," she told Italian newspaper La Repubblica one time aft the accident, per the BBC. "It was each dark. In the h2o I couldn't support my eyes open. I screamed for assistance but each I could perceive astir maine was the screams of others." 

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