Inside doomed Bayesian: Haunting new video shows divers examining interior of vessel on seabed two months after sinking disaster left seven dead

A haunting new video has emerged showing divers examining the interior of the doomed Bayesian superyacht two months after it sank in Italy.

The clip, aired by Italian investigative TV programme Quarta Repubblica on Monday, shows a team of divers exploring the shipwreck that claimed the lives of seven on August 19.

In the footage, a diver can be seen clinging on to a rope while lowering themselves into the water as bubbles from their oxygen tank rise from the side..

The investigators approached the wreckage site of the £30million superyacht, which is currently lying at a depth of 160ft.

After swimming into an opening, the divers drift down eerie corridors, hatches, and rooms inside the Bayesian which is lying on its starboard side on the sea bed.

The investigators approached the wreckage site of the £30million superyacht, which is currently lying at a depth of 49metres

The divers swam through the eerie corridors and rooms of the sunken vessel

The footage comes just weeks after inquests opened into four of the seven people who died.

They included tech billionaire Mike Lynch, 59, his daughter Hannah, 18, who was due to start at Oxford University this month and Morgan Stanley International chief Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy.

Hannah was the last of the seven to be found, four days after the sinking, her body hidden behind a mattress below deck. 

Suffolk Coroners court was told that Mr Lynch – who was celebrating being acquitted of a multi million fraud against Hewlett Packard was said to have drowned.

But the cause of death for his daughter and the other two victims was not confirmed with Italian media speculating they gad possible survived briefly in an air pocket and not drowned but suffocated.

Prosecutors investigating the sinking on off the coast of Porticello on the Italian island of Sicily believe Bayesian was ‘engulfed by a wall of water’ which led to the sinking after it was hit by a freak storm.

Leaked details from a preliminary report suggest the yacht went down after it was overwhelmed by water cascading over the main deck and down the spiral staircase to lower levels.

They are also examining whether the Bayesian’s trademark 75m mast may have also been to blame with it first tilting ’45 degrees, before tilting a full 90 degrees’ and sinking.

Wind speeds were around 60mph at the time of the tragedy and a preliminary report quotes investigators as saying: ‘It (Bayesian) had the entire port side exposed to gusts and waves. With such a tall mast the sail effect was decisive in making it tilt.’

A handout photo made available on August 19 by Perini Navi Press Office shows the ‘Bayesian’ sailing boat, in Palermo, Sicily, Italy

British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah both died in the Bayesian tragedy when the superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily

The first autopsies were carried out on lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda (both pictured) were also found to have no water in their lungs in post-mortems

Autopsies carried out on Morgan Stanley boss Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy reveal they ‘suffocated’ in an air bubble and didn’t drown, reports claim

Investigators are still also looking at ‘human error’ with the focus being on why the engines were not turned on and the bow of the yacht pointed to the wind to minimise the effects of the storm downburst.

This led to the Bayesian drifting 400metres, tilting gradually, which allowed the seawater to tip in over the decks and down into the bowels of the vessel where the cabins are and where six of the seven victims were found.

Bayesian is now lying at a depth of 49m with a permanent coastguard security cordon and plans are being drawn up to raise her in the next few weeks.

Officials are also looking into why the Bayesian didn’t turn her engines on – as did the nearby yacht Sir Baden Powell which survived the storm unscathed.

Key to this decision is skipper James Cutfield and chief engineer Tim Parker Eaton with the two expected to be questioned fully in the coming weeks as to why they didn’t carry out this action – which would have undoubtedly prevented the sinking. 

Fifteen people – including Mr Lynch’s wife Angela Bacares – survived the tragedy – which came just months after he was cleared of a multi-billion fraud by a US court involving software giant Hewlett Packard.

New Zealander Cutfield, 51, and British duo Parker Eaton, 59, with watchman Matthew Griffiths, 22, have all been place under formal investigation for multiple manslaughter and causing a disaster.

Lying at a depth of 49metres the Bayesian can be seen lying on its starboard side and bubbles from a diver’s oxygen tank can be seen rising from the side in footage released last week

The British-flagged Bayesian superyacht (pictured) was owned by tech magnate Mike Lynch

The time of death for all four was given as 5am on August 19, less than an hour after the yacht was hit by the freak storm known as a downburst and there were ten guests and twelve crew onboard.

When asked for further explanation of this by the coroner, DS Mike Brown of Suffolk police said that ‘further tests were needed’ to establish the cause of deaths and that it was ‘not uncommon’ in such circumstances.

Superintendent Brown said that as the Bayesian was British registered the Marine Accident Investigation Branch was also probing the sinking and that Italian authorities had launched a criminal case.

Coroner Nigel Parsley described the four deaths as ‘very sad’ and he adjourned the hearing until 15 April 2025 for ‘further investigations’.

The new footage comes just a week after the first images of the sunken vessel were leaked to Quarta Repubblica and broadcast.

Quarta Repubblica said in its report that the bodies of those who died were found in the side visible on the clip.

The white line that can be seen is the one that runs around the hull of the Bayesian and dark oblongs indicated by red circles are the cabin windows.