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 Mon 19 Aug 24 20:28 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - zippy
Mike Lynch the founder of Autonomy, who won his court case in the USA recently for Fraud is missing after a yacht he was on sank in the med last night.

By pure coincidence, his co-accused, Autonomy's vice president of Finance Stephen Chamberlain was run over and killed the day before.

What are the odds!
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 Mon 19 Aug 24 22:12 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - Dave_
Has anyone checked on Sushovan Hussain??
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 Mon 19 Aug 24 22:13 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - bathtub tom
>>What are the odds!

Conspiracy theorists will have a heyday!
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 Tue 20 Aug 24 08:58 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - Falkirk Bairn
The car driver who hit Mr Chamberlain was a 49 year old woman driving a Corsa who remained at the site of the collision.

Not exactly a James Bond/CIA/FRB (KGB of old) type assassination.
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 Tue 20 Aug 24 09:03 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - smokie
I believe it is just coincidence but it is still quite some coincidence, and so soon after the case against them finished.
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 Tue 20 Aug 24 13:09 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - Zero
Wierd. Had it been russia........
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 Tue 20 Aug 24 13:28 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - tyrednemotional
....Mike Lynch would have fallen out of a porthole. ;-)
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 Wed 21 Aug 24 12:46 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - maltrap
I recall some years ago York Minster was struck by lightning shortly after making some sort of religious statement, I’m not religious,but that made me wonder.
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 Wed 21 Aug 24 13:15 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - zippy
>> I recall some years ago York Minster was struck by lightning shortly after making some
>> sort of religious statement, I’m not religious,but that made me wonder.
>>

www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/4466446.lightning-bolt-from-the-past/
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 Wed 21 Aug 24 18:44 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - James Loveless
Confirmation a short while ago that Lynch and his daughter have died and that their bodies have been recovered.
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 Wed 21 Aug 24 19:14 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - CGNorwich
His yacht, the Bayesian, had a 245ft mast. The speculation is that this would have effectively acted as a sail and the waterspout would have knocked the boat over pushing the boat into the water. Being a hot and humid night hatches and doors were left open and the water rushed in and the boat sank almost immediately
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 Wed 21 Aug 24 19:29 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - zippy
Now the confirmation of their deaths is here, it's very sad
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 Wed 21 Aug 24 20:10 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - Zero
Yes the mast was 75 meters, designed to carry many hundreds of square meters of sail in 30 knot winds, which would far exceed the windforce experienced in this case on a slim mast.

However, was it rigged for high winds, was the keel deployed? Seems it wasnt. And yes it probably wasn't battoned down with water tight doors closed, probably went over far enough to ship some water in, and it went downhill quickly from there.
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 Thu 22 Aug 24 12:30 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - Falkirk Bairn
Keel was not deployed according to today's paper.
Hatches / windows open?
That looks like the boat rolled and water did the rest.
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 Thu 22 Aug 24 12:46 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - Biggles
No doubt the boat will be raised and a full investigation carried out. Speculating as to the cause is a bit pointless.
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 Thu 22 Aug 24 13:03 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - Bromptonaut
>> Keel was not deployed according to today's paper.
>> Hatches / windows open?
>> That looks like the boat rolled and water did the rest.

Sudden storm arising from nowhere in benign conditions?

You can see how it happens.
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 Thu 22 Aug 24 13:17 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - James Loveless
Benign conditions?

My understanding is that the weather was already pretty rough, though the waterspout or whatever it was constituted a sudden extra-violent event.

One theory is that the waterspout dumped water onto the boat and through the open hatches.
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 Thu 22 Aug 24 13:21 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - sherlock47
Apparently the wife + baby were sleeping on the deck - so unlikely to have been that rough?
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 Wed 28 Aug 24 12:08 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - Zero
youtu.be/mGULtQjJrvQ

Interesting summary of things as it stands at the moment.
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 Wed 28 Aug 24 13:23 
 Mike Lynch missing and Steven Chamberlain killed - legacylad
www.google.co.uk/url?q=https://www.scicsailing.eu/en/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwi1r82G1ZeIAxWXREEAHQ9kJqAQFnoECAYQAg&usg=AOvVaw0tDX_SsAIzfnwoMX6mbi6_

I went on holiday with this company a few years ago...just 9 passengers on the gulet, 2 Dutch, 1 German, 3 Turkish, 2 S Africans and myself.
I knew there must have been a reason we all slept out on deck at night....great holiday.

All meals on deck, a few laps of the boat before brekkie, snorkelling, kayaks, windsurfers. Unlimited beer & wine, although drank in moderation until sunset. All the passengers met and chatted with the captain after brekkie and decided where to sail to each day, where to anchor for lunch, and for how long, and if the wind was kind we went under sail. Unlike the vast majority of similar companies.
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