Bayesian curse, diver dead during recovery
The diver who died during the Bayesian recovery operation was 39-year-old Robcornelis Maria Huijben Uiben. According to an initial inspection there were no injuries or burns on the body.
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Nine months later, the shipwreck of the Bayesian records its eighth victim. During the salvage operation of British tycoon Mark Lynch's yacht, which sank in the sea off Porticello during a storm on 19 August, 39-year-old Dutch diver Robcornelis Maria Huijben Uiben lost his life.
The accident, which has yet to be reconstructed, will be dealt with by Raffaele Cammarano, the same prosecutor investigating the shipwreck that cost the lives of the tycoon, his daughter Hannah, Jonathan Bloomer, his wife Judy, Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda, and Thomas Recaldo, the ship's cook. Another 15 people survived.
The diver, according to initial reconstructions, was working on cutting the boom at a depth of 49 metres. After an unsuccessful attempt made with spanners, he allegedly went down with other colleagues with a blowtorch, a kind of blowtorch.
As soon as the cut was made, the boom may have acted as a lever and some material, perhaps a piece of metal, may have hit the victim.
The images of the operation, filmed with underwater cameras, stopped at that point. Then the alarm was raised and the body recovered.
