(20 Aug 2024)
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Porticello, Sicily, Italy – 20 August 2024
1. Various of Captain Karsten Borner heading ashore aboard rubber boat
2. Wide of port
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Karsten Borner, Captain of the Sir Robert Baden Powell ship that rescued the Bayesian survivors: “We were hit by a violent gust yesterday, a tornado, a water tornado I think they call it. Type three if I know it were. In the morning at three o’clock, around three o’clock, we noticed wet weather coming, and when it appeared we started our engines to keep the ship in position, and we had the other yacht behind us. A moment later, she was gone and it couldn’t be clear, what happened.”
4. Boats moored in the port
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Karsten Borner, Captain of the Sir Robert Baden Powell:
"And after the wind dropped down, we looked around us and didn’t see the yacht, also in the areas it was not visible. And a moment later, somebody of our guests saw a red flare, and then we saw a red flare ourselves, and we took our tender and went in that direction, and found 15 people in the life raft. We took them out of the life raft and brought them with our tender to our ship, and took care of them until the coastal guard appeared – first to take the injured people, and later the rest.”
6. Coast guard boats in port
7. Coast guard units getting into rubber boat
8. Close of life raft that was used by survivors
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Karsten Borner, Captain of the Sir Robert Baden Powell ship:
“It was not spectacular. We saw the red flare, and we went in that direction. There was not so many waves, and we found them, and they stepped over in the dinghy, in the tender, and we brought them back. And that’s all. Because they were all together in the life raft.
10. Life raft that was used by survivors to escape the yacht until they were found by Borner
11. Close of ‘12’ sign on raft, indicating the amount of people the raft can accommodate
12. Close of life raft zip
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Karsten Borner, Captain of the Sir Robert Baden Powell ship:
“They didn’t tell us so much about how it happened .. but they were under shock, and we didn’t ask them too much. We let them rest and took care of them until the coast guard came.”
14. Various of fire brigade dive boats leaving the port
15. Dive boat leaving port
16. Dive boat leaving behind rocks
STORYLINE:
The captain of a ship involved in the rescue of passengers from the superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily on Monday was alerted to the disaster by a red flare shortly after bad weather rolled in, he told the Associated Press.
Six people, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, were still missing on Tuesday morning.
Karsten Borner, Captain of the Sir Robert Baden Powell, which was moored nearby the Bayesian, described how at around 3am he had noticed "wet weather" coming in.
"We started our engines to keep the ship in position, and we had the other yacht behind us. A moment later, she was gone and it couldn’t be clear, what happened," he said.
After seeing a red flare Borner used his ship’s tender to rescue survivors who had taken refuge in a life raft.
Fifteen people survived, including a mother who reported holding her 1-year-old baby over the waves to save her.
One body has been recovered, identified as the on-board chef, officials said.
The Bayesian, a 56-meter (184-foot) British-flagged luxury yacht, had been moored about a half-mile off Ponticello when a freak storm hit.
His wife, Angela Bacares, survived.
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