Captain describes moment British technology tycoon’s luxury yacht started to sink off Sicily

Captain describes moment British tycoon's luxury yacht started to sink off Sicily coastReuters

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00:00And this morning we got this very strong Orkan gust and we had to start the engine to keep

00:22the ship in an anchor position and we watched the ship behind us not to touch them.

00:29And then we managed to keep the ship in position and after the storm was over we noticed that

00:37the ship behind us was gone.

00:42And then we saw a red flare.

00:46So my first mate and I went to the position and we found this life raft drifting.

00:58It was 15 people inside.

01:02Four people injured, three heavy injured and we brought them to our ship.

01:11And then we communicated with the coast guard and after some time the coast guard came and

01:17later they picked injured people and maybe one or two hours later they picked up the other people.

01:25I think it was a gust of 1204.

01:29It's a strong Orkan gust, very strong, very strong.

01:34And we have been healing also a lot.

01:38But the other ship, strange enough, it's 55 meters I think with a 72 meters long mast.

01:46They went flat on the water and then down.

01:51In the light we saw that the ship was aside and then we saw a triangle.

01:57So I think she went back.

02:00Terrible, terrible moments.

02:02Yes, and in the life raft was also a little baby and the wife of the owner.

02:09The owner and her child are still inside I guess.

02:14So it was a big disaster.