‘Below Deck’s’ Captain Sandy Slams Italian Cops for Persecuting Superyacht Captain
Captain Sandy Yawn, the star of Below Deck, said Monday that the captain of the $40m superyacht which sank off the coast of Sicily is being made “an easy target” by Italian authorities.
Seven people, including British tech billionaire Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, died on Aug. 19, when the 184-foot Bayesian sank after being hit by a sudden and violent storm at 4 a.m. local time. Fifteen people, including the captain, James Cutfield, and all but one of the crew, survived. Autopsies are due to be soon carried out on the bodies of those who died.
On Monday Italian authorities announced they had opened a formal investigation into Cutfield for manslaughter and “negligent shipwreck”—although no formal charges may follow.