Aug 28/2024: It certainly isn’t every day that a 183-foot superyacht sinks in a matter of minutes, while at anchor, with 12 crew and 10 guests aboard. So it’s entirely understandable that the very abrupt sinking of Bayesian, an enormous Perini Navi sloop, at around 4am on August 19 off Porticello, Sicily, resulting in the...
The recent sinking of the Canadian school ship Concordia and the memory it roused in me of the earlier sinking, almost 50 years ago, of Chris Sheldon's school ship Albatross ties into a strong flood tide that has long flowed through my brain. It in fact first started flowing just about 40 years ago...
