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A Night of Chaos: The Bayesian's Final Voyage
Off the coast of sunny Sicily tucked away just outside Porticello, tragedy awaited the Bayesian superyacht and its crew. Join us on this riveting episode of "The I'm Not Dumb but Podcast" as we unravel the gripping, heart-wrenching story of the last fateful night of the Bayesian. Hear stories from the survivors and crew members, including the night watch sailor Matthew Griffith, who takes us through the moments leading up to the disaster. With the loss of seven lives, including British tech mogul Mike Lynch and his daughter, the episode is an emotional and thorough recounting of the events.
The intense storm that struck without warning, and the subsequent rescue efforts. Could more have been done to save the lives that were lost? We also delve into the intriguing background of Mike Lynch, touching on his recent legal battles and the swirling conspiracy theories linked to him and other untimely deaths. This episode is a poignant reflection on the delicate balance between luxury and safety, and the invaluable lessons we can learn from this tragic event. Don’t miss this compelling examination of one of the most mysterious maritime tragedies in recent history.
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All right, let's get this going. What are we learning today? Tonight we are doing a little tragedy, oh, oh, yeah, yeah.
Victor:Why are you picking sad stuff? Pick fun stuff, dude, I don't want to be upset. Am I going to be upset?
Cesar:It's interesting. I thought it was interesting.
Victor:That was an awkwardly long pause.
Cesar:No, because it's a tragedy, it's going to be an interesting episode. Okay, long pause. No, because it's a tragedy, it's gonna be an interesting episode. Okay. Well, on this episode of I'm not dumb. But how did one of the world's most sophisticated yachts sink within minutes of a storm? Because this tragedy had been avoided. Who's at fault? As investigators continue to unravel what went wrong, join us as we uncover the tragedy of the bayesian superyacht. Welcome to the I'm Not Dumb but Podcast, where we won't claim to have the answers to life's deepest questions but we'll give you an exciting journey into the realms of knowledge you never knew you needed.
Cesar:Might be mainstream, but not common knowledge. From artificial intelligence to conspiracy theories, no topic is too taboo for us to explore. Let's get curious together. I'm your host, cesar, joined always by Chris. Yo, rob, hello, and Victor, how y'all doing. What's going on, fellas? What's going on?
Victor:Sir, permission to come aboard the Bajan Am I the skipper on this one? Yeah, you're the skipper.
Cesar:You're our captain? No, you're not. No, Am I the skipper on this one? Yeah you're the skipper. You're our captain. No, you're not. No, no, permission denied.
Victor:Captain, no, captain.
Cesar:What is poetry. So did you guys hear about this incident that occurred a while ago?
Victor:A yacht sinking? Not at all.
Cesar:Yeah, a yacht sinking, never heard of it.
Victor:No Perfect.
Speaker 4:No, nothing.
Victor:There's only one person I know with a yacht, and his name is Bezos.
Cesar:So let me tell you guys what happened. In August 2024, tragedy struck off the coast of Sicily when the luxury superyacht Bayesian sank during a sudden and violent storm. The yacht, known for its opulence and owned by British tech mogul Mike Lynch, was hosting high-profile guests. Instead of a celebration, it became the site of a devastating disaster, resulting in the loss of seven lives, including Lynch and his daughter. You guys did not hear about this.
Victor:I don't even know who that person is.
Rob:Who is this British tech tycoon, Mike Lynch.
Cesar:Who the hell is that? I only heard about it, like there was one random TikTok was it TikTok or YouTube? Where they were kind of like talking about it and I was like, oh, this is kind of interesting. And then, as you kind of read into the details about it, you're like, oh, it's sad but it's interesting.
Rob:Was it was there? Is this an inside job Like? Is that what we think?
Cesar:No, ok this is just a regular boat crash. Let me tell you guys what happened. So on the night of August 19th 2024, the Beijing superyacht 85-foot-long luxury vessel encountered a violent and sudden storm off the coast of Sicily.
Victor:How long is 85? How many bananas is that? It's a lot of bananas, man. I need some sort of reference to how long 85 feet Two kilometers. Oh, thank you, that was super fucking helpful, I feel like I know better.
Chris:Now you know exactly.
Victor:Yeah, is it like three cars put together Four SUVs, five Honda Odysseys. It's like seven Toyota Yaris's it's around six Toyota Yaris's, six.
Rob:Toyota Yaris's and about a little over three Apex Stegosaurus. I mean that's a big ass yacht.
Victor:That's a big ass yacht.
Rob:The Toyota Yaris comes in a range of eight colors.
Cesar:So the yacht was anchored when the storm, described as a possible localized wind downburst, hit it without warning, triggering a catastrophic sequence of events. And a downburst occurs when air plummets downward from the base of a cloud. It kind of often happens during a downpour of rain or like thunderstorms, and this produces a powerful wind gust that blows towards the ground.
Victor:I've seen twisters so I'm pretty much a weather expert, so I know exactly what you're talking about.
Cesar:No, I was going somewhere that there's a downpour and then there's something else. I forgot what it's called oh, a water spout a water spout.
Rob:Yeah, yeah, wait.
Cesar:So it's the downburst, then a water spout. It's a water spout which is kind of like a twister on water right yeah and then there's a down burst which is like different. Oh, air just comes down, hits the water and then wind just goes in every direction and you can get winds up to 100 miles an hour. Wow yeah, it's a little chop you don't know shit about chop they're fairly short-lived and they typically last about a matter of minutes.
Cesar:They know about it, but they can't really study them that well. They can't really record them. It's so fast. As the storm intensified, the yacht began to take water and started to sink rapidly. Panic ensued amongst 22 people that were on board. Despite the desperate efforts by passengers and crew, the sinking lasted a couple of minutes. This resulted in the Italian Coast Guard responding quickly and rescuing 15 of the survivors, including Lynch's wife.
Rob:So where were?
Cesar:they headed, they were anchored. They were anchored off the coast of Sicily, yeah.
Rob:So they're anchored off the coast of Sicily, they're hanging out, they're having some wine cheese.
Cesar:This occurred at three o'clock in the morning.
Rob:Three o'clock in the morning, all of a sudden, oh, so they were sleeping. They were sleeping, wow, so they weren't even moving. They were anchored down. Oh my God, that's scary.
Victor:Now, how did it sink Like are we talking? Like Titanic snapping in half or flipping over?
Cesar:So the investigations are ongoing. Right, because they don't know. It's been documented that it sank in a couple of minutes. Whenever the event occurred to, when they released the flare, it took about 16 minutes.
Victor:Was the bilge pump working? I feel like the bilge pump would have something to do with it, you know you always got to check your bilge pump. Thank you, rob. Thank you, what's a bilge pump? It's the pump for the bilge.
Rob:When was the last time you went sailing? I don't got a bulge eye.
Victor:The bilge is the area on the outer surface of the ship's hull where the bottom curves to meet the vertical sides. Ah, okay.
Cesar:I don't know, if that helps you at all.
Victor:For starters, a small amount of water in the bilge is not a huge concern, but a more significant amount of water needs to be addressed, so you can't have too much water in your bilge. Therefore, a bilge pump would pump out the water.
Cesar:There's no certainty about what happened, but the answer lies probably with a combination of factors that include this extraordinary weather event, with some of the features that the yacht had it had an extraordinary mast, a lifting keel Sounds like me in my 20s.
Chris:Watch out for this guy. He's a troublemaker.
Rob:So do we think that this was an actual storm or do we think there was a foul play?
Cesar:I think this is an actual storm. One of the questions that arise was like why did they remain anchored just offshore when they knew there was bad weather? So it was forecasted that there was a storm coming. The issue was that no one knew how bad it was, which is what kind of took these guys off guard?
Rob:Yeah, like what is the protocol? Bad weather's coming. Hey, let's go closer to land, let's get out of here.
Cesar:For I guess this yacht of this size you have to do a couple of things. You have to try to close off all areas where water can leak in. The lifting keel has to be properly in place.
Speaker 4:Hold up, wait a minute. The keel is the very bottom part of your sailboat. It keeps your boat from capsizing. Choosing the right kind of keel is very important. Racers and open sea cruisers must have the deepest keels for more stability on the rough water and into the strong wind.
Cesar:They don't know, but they might think that it was partially raised and this is partly because, once the yacht went down, divers started looking for survivors. With every dive they came back up and they started noticing the lifting keel was actually partly raised. How deep was the water? The boat is, I think, think 100 150 feet in the water, so I'm assuming so 150 feet.
Victor:Yeah, because if it sank, I'm assuming- it's at the bottom.
Rob:Yeah, it's not just halfway, yeah, yeah, it just seems like. It just seems like they should have maybe it's proper protocol.
Victor:You're not a boat guy.
Rob:Maybe it's like okay, listen what I know about boats, I know from Jay-Z. What did he say? He says me I'm dodging raindrops, meaning I'm on vacay, chilling on a big yacht. So someone like that, he's constantly moving around, he's checking weather patterns. It's true, he's never in the same spot. You know what I mean.
Cesar:Sounds like a bird.
Rob:I mean, I don't know.
Cesar:Maybe they should have listened to Jay. Some boat advice right there for you. They're trying to figure out whether the crew took the necessary measures, given that the forecast called for bad weather and a storm overnight. One expert said a focus on the investigation should be whether the yacht's crew had closed access hatches in the vessel before the storm struck. These are some of the questions that, as the investigation continues to go, they're trying to answer.
Chris:Does yachts have black box?
Cesar:This specific one because of its, I guess, the form, whatever the terminology is. No, Of course. Yeah, you can get it if you want, as the owner, which was a question that the investigators asked and they found out. No, this wasn't it. I think this costs like $40, $45 million. I would have put one on, Just throw a black box in there.
Victor:It's like, yeah, give me the updated sound system, the Bose, and then a black box and the GPS.
Rob:How much could it be? It comes with six months free SiriusXM radio. And you might even be able to get the weather with that one Standard in all super yachts. Fully loaded, I think, is the term All right. So there might have been an issue with the hatches.
Cesar:Yeah, A lot of these questions are what investigators are trying to figure out Because, like I mentioned, these things don't happen and the forecast called for a storm, but this was the only boat that sank that night, amongst other boats that were in the area.
Victor:In the same area, yeah so it's not really the storm that, because it's like those other boats got the storm thing, but they're like, yeah, we'll be fine, we're anchored seems like this would be the perfect time to take down a boat.
Cesar:Coincidence well, the thing is, it would be the perfect time to take down a boat. Coincidence. Well, the thing is, it would be the perfect time to take down a boat if you knew when it was coming. These things are random. They said they knew the weather was bad, though.
Cesar:They just didn't know how bad it was Because, from all other indications, all the other boats around it, even the fishermen from the town, were also like we were going to sail out and do some fishing. But things got choppy and we're like nah, we'll sit this one out. The storm comes, has excessive winds, but as the winds are hitting, it hits the mast, one of the tallest ones in the world. The boat starts to rock from side to side. It's a sailboat. It's a sail. Yeah, yacht, yeah, oh.
Victor:I thought it was like a yacht yacht, not a sailboat.
Cesar:No, no, it's a sail one. Wait, it's a sail boat. I thought it was a.
Victor:Yeah right, You've made it sound like it was a fucking yacht. It's a super yacht.
Rob:That's what it's called. Bezos has a swimming pool and a helicopter attached to his.
Victor:Yeah, does this. I can't.
Rob:It has a stupid fucking wow, it does have a huge mast. You're still talking about the boat, right? I was talking about Mike. But, yeah, the boat's also got it Johnson Pretty big.
Cesar:So at this point the yacht's getting hit by winds, starts to oscillate back and forth, the mast breaks, it tips over, goes to.
Rob:We got a storm coming, John. We got a storm coming. Shut the fuck up and get back down. Did somebody close the hatches?
Victor:we're fine we're fine out here I've been doing this for 50 years. I'm a seasoned captain. Damn it all right.
Cesar:From all the information that I'm gathering, I think that's what has happened. It got to a certain point, close to the water on one side. Then water started leaking in, flooding through and sank the whole thing. That's what I'm thinking happened. Prosecutors approving the shipwreck have placed three crew members on their investigation the captain, james Cutfield, the British ship engineer, tim Parker, and a sailor called Matthew Griffith, who was on watch duty on the night the Bajan sank, called Matthew Griffith, who was on watch duty on the night the Bajan sank. Now James Cuffield, the captain, was a primary person of interest in the investigation to determine whether the crimes of culpable shipwreck and manslaughter may have been committed. So a little bit about the captain. The captain is a 51-year-old from New Zealand, new Zealand. He's a Kiwi, I'm from New Zealand. He initially spoke about the tragedy from his hospital bed in Palermo, telling an Italian newspaper we didn't see it coming.
Victor:But say that with a New Zealand accent. We didn't see it coming. Sounds Jamaican, that sounds a little.
Rob:Jamaican. I like it. It's a New Zealand guy who was originally born in the islands. Yeah, he had a beef patty.
Speaker 4:He stopped by a Golden Cross on the way over. It's a jamaican accent.
Cesar:So from any indication, this guy was a very good sailor, very, very well respected. He was a former competitive sailor. He has eight years of experience, captain uh luxury yachts and has worked in the industry for three decades. He's seasoned sailor. If the captain was good, what could have happened? What? What was the crew doing? What actions did they take, or did not take, that led to the sinking? So who was on the yacht? Well, the yacht was owned by Mike Lynch. He was known once as Britain's Bill Gates, and he was joined by his close friends and family celebrating his recent acquittal in a criminal case in the United States. Mike Lynch was a pivotal figure in the world of technology and as the founder of Autonomy, one of the UK's most successful software companies, lynch played a significant role in shaping enterprise search and data analytics software.
Rob:So maybe that's where the Beijing name came from.
Cesar:Beijing statistics came from.
Victor:Ah Beijing statistics. Yes, I know all about statistics Bayesians.
Cesar:Now, I've never heard of that and I took statistics like three times.
Victor:I've never heard of it either.
Rob:I know loops. Did you go to a state school, all?
Cesar:of them. Yeah, all of them were state school.
Victor:Oh, okay, that's your problem right there Lack of education Lynch's company Autonomy.
Cesar:He founded it in 1996. And then it sold to HP 15 years later for $11 billion. What a cash cow. Nice, good job. But in 2012, hp said it discovered a massive accounting scandal. Lynch denied the charges, triggering 12 years of legal battles. After the 12 years of legal battle, he was acquitted. He's on the yacht with his friends, with his family, enjoying his freedom yeah and then tragedy hits right.
Cesar:So I mentioned earlier, 15 out of the 22 people on board were rescued from the boat. Nine of them were crew members and six of them were guests. Seven guests died that day and all the crew members survived. Terrible. I had a question. I was like huh, I thought that was interesting. I was like all but one crew member survived and seven of the guests I thought that was, I thought that was strange, so that was odd couldn't have something to do with where their rooms are yeah, could be, could be.
Cesar:eventually, what happened was most of those crew members survived because they were already up on deck, aware and awake. Interesting oh. Remember, this happened at three o'clock in the morning, so a lot of the passengers were sleeping. Should we wake the owner?
Rob:Nah.
Chris:Nah, he's good, it'll blow by.
Cesar:The storm's going gonna go by. Think about it if, if you're a ship captain, you think you've done this a hundred times right, which is probably a mistake, and the investigators are gonna have to go through that and make sure. Like what was this proper protocol? Because things have been done different. So, yeah, and the investigators started interviewing them. Um, and especially they wanted to interview this, the one sailor who was in night watch.
Cesar:And this is when things got like, oh man, I was like I feel kind of bad because, according to multiple italian news outlets, right, the sailor, matthew griffiths, who was, I think, 22 or 23, was on watch duty at the time. He said I woke up the captain when the wind was at 20 knots or 23 miles an hour. He gave the order to wake everyone else up. So I'm assuming when he mentioned wake everyone up, he mentioned the rest of the crew, then griffith, then I put away the cushions and plants. So at this point maybe they're thinking that the storm isn't that serious, because if it was, you would not care about plants or cushions well, it sounds like like a standard protocol in case of a storm.
Victor:start putting away furniture that you might lose in a storm. Yeah, like loose furniture.
Cesar:But I'm assuming if they think the storm was as bad as it actually turned out to be, I don't think they'll be worried about that. You know, I think it's protocol, but I get what you're saying.
Victor:Well, it's just like he thought OK, storm's coming, Let me put away all my, all the loose things that might fly off the boat. Yeah, anything that might come off, yeah right. So did the captain say anything like hey, where's the rest of the fucking people on this boat? So this is what I think happened.
Cesar:He was on duty, the rest of the crew was sleeping. He was on duty, the rest of the crew was sleeping. He was the only one when he realized that the winds were picking up. He called down to the captain, said hey man, the winds are picking up, what do you want me to do? Captain woke up, said go wake up the rest of the crew. I don't know what else was exchanged because, like I said, I don't think we will. Maybe they'll know after interviewing more people. But I'm assuming the captain maybe said OK, go wake up the rest of the crew and go start doing, start preparing things. Protocol. And then he said Griffith. He said that I closed the glass windows of the lounge at the bow, as well as the hatches. Investigators are trying to figure out where their hatches, where their openings. They may have had water rush in. So this guy's saying that, no, he's closed some of them. So we're going to have to take it at his word, right?
Victor:Well, I mean you can go look with the boat if they're still closed or not. I mean the divers could see it. They could just go down there and be like yo, these aren't closed.
Cesar:Actually they're thinking about raising the boat and I think first it's full of fuel, so they got to figure that out. Then, after they figure out the fuel, they can raise it up and I think it's going to cost about 50 million dollars. But 50 million dollars to, you know, get all the answers. I think it's. It's nothing right. So this is still Griffith the sailor. Sometimes later it's not really clear. He said the ship tilted and we were thrown into the water. Then we managed to get back up and swim up and try to rescue those we could. He added we were walking on the walls of the boat. We saved who we could, and Cutfield the captain also saved a little girl and her mother, he said, referring to another passenger and her baby.
Victor:That was, that was on that's gotta be hard, though, because imagine, okay, you're in a storm, it's fucking.
Cesar:Waves are going everywhere, pitch black, it's three in the morning generators, I'm assuming right now the generators are still on for the boat. Yeah, but still though that's.
Victor:That's a little bit of light. It's not like a clear night out where, like the moonlight is also shining. It's overcast and who knows the visibility? It's probably low because there's fucking, it's raining, right it's 100 mile an hour wind that's 100 miles an hour, winds, there's fucking waves hitting you and you fucking swam back to the boat like damn, that's pretty amazing, that's pretty crazy. It's crazy, right, that's pretty wild.
Cesar:I was like a 22-year-old at 3 o'clock in the morning in a crazy-ass storm and literally he was like we're walking on the walls of the boat. So this thing's already tipped over. Right the mast is close to the water and I'm assuming that's when the water started creeping into the boat or just started rushing into the boat, which led even more to sinking.
Victor:That poor kid. He probably joined up. He watched a lot of episodes of Below Deck, yeah, and he was like yo, I want to work on these private fucking yachts. And now he has to deal with this shit.
Cesar:Yeah, he mentioned that the captain saved the little girl and her mother. This is another testimony that was from one of the survivors. So among the 15 who survived included a one-year-old British baby called Sophia, who was kept afloat by her mother. Her name was Charlotte Galinsky and this is what Charlotte said. She said that they were woken up by thunder. Lightning and waves made her dance and it felt like the end of the world before we were thrown into the water For two seconds. I lost my daughter in the sea, then quickly hugged her amid the fury of the waves. I held her afloat with all my strength. My arms stretched upwards to keep her from drowning. It was all dark In the water. I couldn't keep my eyes open. I screamed for help, but all I could hear the screams of others around me. Oh my gosh.
Victor:Wait. So no mention of the captain. Where's the captain in all this?
Cesar:She didn't mention the captain, I think the other guy that's weird. Whoa, that's not weird. Yeah, she was probably too traumatized.
Rob:And then she got saved shortly after that, or yeah, she was probably too traumatized.
Cesar:And then she got saved shortly after that, or she didn't know who actually saved her. Someone just grabbed her and put her on a lifeboat.
Victor:Well, here's a question. Who put out the Mayday call Did not say Right, because how would the Coast Guard know that?
Cesar:people are in trouble. It took about 16 minutes for them to set up a flare. Oh, so they sent a flare. Apparently, there's a procedure where you have to blow out horns and say emergency all throughout the yacht.
Victor:We don't know if that happened. It's maritime code.
Cesar:Yeah right.
Victor:I just made that up.
Cesar:I have no idea, it's probably true.
Victor:There's a code to the sea.
Cesar:Yeah, I'm assuming that on the life raft, that's when they shut up the flare.
Rob:So all these guys, the boat flips, they throw out a life raft, they save who they could, and then they start pulling people out of the water.
Cesar:Yeah, and I'm assuming they didn't follow any of the proper protocols because this shit happened so fast. There was a separate yacht that was close by and the captain of the yacht went out and actually tried to help some of the people. They actually took the people on the life raft onto his yacht and then he called the Coast Guard. Oh okay, One of the craziest things was that they located five of the bodies in one of the unused cabins and after the autopsies were done it was found out that they all died of asphyxiation. That's a tough way to go. Yeah, is that they tried to find an air pocket. Lynch's daughter and the chef were in two isolated parts of the yacht and information is still pending on them.
Chris:I think there was an incident it was like a few years ago or maybe more in Korea. There was a students were on the ferry. I don, in korea there was a students were on the ferry, but I don't know exactly what happened, okay, but the boat was sinking but the the captain or the people authorities were like, told all the students there was about like 40 to 50, like high school students, they're on a field trip or something and then the boat was sinking but they didn't know what to do, so they told the students to stay at like a lower deck. Oh my God. And then boat ended up going down and they all went down with it because they were all but didn't the captain he?
Chris:survived. Yeah, I remember that, yeah, right you remember that?
Victor:Because everyone was like what the fuck are you doing? Yeah, I think I remember that. Yeah, that was Crazy.
Cesar:Was the ship designed properly? Are people looking into that? Yeah, it was one of, I think, perini something is a shipmaker. I tried to see if they had any issues. I couldn't find anything. Someone in my research is mentioning, like those doors, that the glass doors that he had to close. I can't really corroborate this. Said that it's been those are faulty.
Cesar:I think that show below deck had an episode where some doors like that actually were faulty on an episode. Have you watched below deck? I see it and I'm like okay, okay, I've never seen it.
Victor:I've never seen it is why I ask yeah it's just it, literally five of them just talking.
Cesar:You're like what is going on?
Chris:I don't stay for too long I just like what okay and they're just talking nonsense.
Cesar:So I'm like get your bags, get them packed, let's go. So I mentioned that mike lynch right, he was celebrating a recent court victory yeah, what was he?
Cesar:charged with. So this is what happened, right? So I mentioned that he created and started this company in 1999 called Autonomy. What did Autonomy do? It was a software that helps firms store and search unstructured data, such as voicemails and email. Cool. So this company, after acquiring other companies, allowed you to, kind of like, better access your data, even data that are unrelated or not, you know, close together. So that was what autonomy did.
Cesar:Hp bought them out. They bought them in 2011. And within a year, hp had to write down the value of autonomy by $8.8 billion Because they said that there was a lot of inaccuracies in the accounting. So they wanted to sue for their money for about $4 billion in charges that they claim. And Mike Lynch was like no, we didn't do anything, we did not falsely boost the company through like accounting magics or accounting, you know wizardry. And it was a civil case and a criminal case. So the civil case, hp actually won, saying that the us firm was actually duped into paying 8.2 billion dollars more for what the software company was actually worth. Civil case but mike lynch was extradited to the? U US and had to go through a criminal case and that he was acquitted of. And that's what they were celebrating in the yacht Nice.
Victor:This is where things get a little funny Like shady funny what's funny there is?
Cesar:a conspiracy theory that people are trying to throw out there.
Rob:This is where it gets fun.
Victor:Let's put on our tinfoil hats here.
Cesar:I don't agree with it, but you decide. So the CFO of autonomy he actually went to jail I think he served in a couple of years for fraud. Mike Lynch at the time president, ceo didn't get anything right, walked away scot-free. They're having fun. Mike Lynch invites everybody to the yacht and unfortunately, these are the individuals that die. Jonathan Blumram he was chairman of Morgan Stanley International, but he was also a chairman of the Autonomy Corporation. Also. Christopher J Moravello he was a partner at Clifford Chance, a law firm, who was Mike.
Victor:Lynch's lawyer. Yeah, but he just helped them. I would invite him to my thing too if he just helped me Exactly. But those are the people that passed away.
Cesar:A couple of days earlier, a guy named Stephen Trembling, who was an autonomy executive and Lynch's co-defendant on the case, died while jogging in England. Died how A sporadic storm? No, he got hit by a car.
Victor:Was it a white squall? He got hit by a car when he was jogging. Oh, that's terrible.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Cesar:In the span of a week. This shittiest and most unfortunate timing that, after a 12-year legal battle, some of the individuals who were found not guilty all met their tragic demise.
Rob:Yeah, it sounds very fishy. It's either an inside job or just karma. Karma, I hear she's a bitch, but it's terrible because other people, innocent people, were involved.
Cesar:Which is what I'm saying. I think the internet just does what the internet does and they just dotted dots that were out there and I think this was a tragedy.
Rob:It's a series of unfortunate events.
Cesar:Fortunate events, yeah it's a lemony snicket, indeed, yeah so that was a look at the beijing super yacht tragedy. Chris, what do you?
Chris:think, man, it does sound a little fishy to me, but at the same time it's unfortunate that, for like people you know, like the entire, the whole family died. Yeah except the wife uh, his wife was one of the survivors. Like I'm kind of curious now to see how the final for the investigation. I'm definitely gonna follow up and see what happened.
Rob:What do you think, rob, I have not heard of this story. I'm definitely gonna follow it. Uh, you definitely put it on the map here. I'm curious to see what the investigation finds after they uh look into it. But yeah, terrible tragedy. Very interesting about what's going on with michael. It's never heard of him but yeah, I think he shed some light on a pretty interesting story. You know, I'll be following it now what do you think victor?
Victor:listen, I don't swim Like you don't know how, or I'm not a good swimmer. I swim like a rock.
Chris:You're like me, if that shows you how well of a swimmer I am.
Victor:So I avoid these situations. If I'm on a boat in the open water, I'm probably just going to wear LifeVest all the time. That being said, I mean you'd feel safe on a super yacht, right?
Speaker 4:If.
Rob:I was on.
Victor:Bezos' yacht. I would feel safe because he's got a fucking helicopter right. So if anything happens, just helicopter yourself out of there. It's sad what happened to these people. I think the whole crew is going to be like thinking about getting different jobs.
Cesar:It was the captain, captain. It was the engineer, the chef, the 22 year old and like three hostesses what do you need three hostesses for?
Rob:that's a lot of plants. There's a lot of plants hire the bayesian super yacht crew. We guarantee to survive wait a minute.
Victor:Wait a minute. Did any of the plants survive the sinking? Who knows? We don't know, probably not, we don't know, we don't know. I mean, yeah, there's still a lot of mysteries. I don't know what's going on. There's still a lot of investigations pending. I don't think there was any foul play, but crazy, crazy. Even yachts aren't safe in today's age.
Cesar:So as we close today's episode, we reflect on how the Beijing superyacht tragedy highlights the delicate balance between luxury and safety, power and vulnerability. As the investigation continues, we hope that lessons will be learned to prevent similar tragedies in the future. If you enjoyed today's show, hit that follow button. Spread the word of this amazing podcast you discovered. We want you to be an active part of our community, whether you have questions, suggestions or just want to share your thoughts on our topics. We want to hear from you. Find us on Twitter at I'm Not Dumb but, and on YouTube at I'm Not Dumb but Podcast. Until next time, stay curious.
Rob:Later.
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