Gavin Grey: On the final moments of the superyacht Bayesian

The final moments of the deadly sinking of the superyacht Bayesian have been revealed by crew members.

New Zealand-born captain James Cutfield is being investigated for possible manslaughter, after seven people died in the disaster.

Ship engineer, Tim Parker Eaton, and watchman Matthew Griffiths are also under investigation.

Europe Correspondent Gavin Grey told Ryan Bridge everyone was thrown into the water when the ship tilted, according to Griffiths.

He says they were walking on the walls of the boat, trying to save every passenger.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Devin Greiz that you can. You're correspondent, Gevin. What's happening
with the elections in Germany.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, it's certainly going to be pretty exciting. According to
projections now, it looks like the far right Alternative for
Deutschland is set to win nearly a third of the vote,
coming up to thirty one percent of the vote in
a projection for the public broadcast to ard. That is
six points ahead of the Conservative CDU party. And if

(00:27):
you look at the three governing parties in the coalition,
they are well behind those two parties, and if confirmed,
it would give the far right its first vote win
in a state parliament since World War II and the Nazis. However,
it's unlikely to be able to form a government in
the state of Thuringia because other parties are refusing to

(00:47):
have anything to do with the Alternative for Deutschland. Five
million Germans are eligible vote in the two state elections.
The Alternative for Deutschland is also close behind the Conservative
CDU in the election for the state parliament in Saxony.
There we're getting a slightly improved rating for the CDU

(01:08):
and the Alternative for Deutschman again polling at thirty point
four percent, and the other three governing parties well down
on that as well. Why will we've had the knifing
has reported a couple of weeks back or a week
or so back now, and that was by a Syrian
asylum seeker. And I think basically immigration has played a

(01:28):
huge part in these two elections. And there's another election
coming up in a couple of weeks in the state
of Brandenburg.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
All Right, given the key we skipper of the Basi
and the yacht that sank in near Sicily. The crew
members are talking. What are they saying?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, they are They've been talking to local reporters. The
most recent interview has been given by Matthew Griffiths, and
he was a crew member of that yacht. You're a
member that seven people died, including sorry, seven people died
in the British tech tycoon Mike Lynch in that luxury
yacht sinking off the Sicilian port of Porticello back on

(02:06):
August the nineteenth. Now, what Matthew Griffiths, who was on
watch duty on the night of the disaster, says to
investigators is the crew members did everything they could to
save those on board. He said, I quote I woke
up the captain when the wind was twenty knots that's
roughly thirty seven kmph Ryan, and he gave the orders
to wake everyone else up. The ship then tilted and

(02:28):
we were thrown into the water. We managed to get
back up on and then tried to rescue those we could.
He said, we were walking on the walls of the
boat and basically we did try and save everyone, and
there were fifteen survivors. Now, the boat's captain, the Keiwe,
James Cupfield, and the ship engineer Tim Parker Eaton and
Matthew Griffiths, who's given this interview are all placed under

(02:50):
investigation by the Italian authorities for potential manslaughter and shipwrate.
But and I must stress being investigated does not imply
guilt and does not mean formal charges will follow.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah. Absolutely, Devin, Thank you for that. Gvin Graw. You
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