I woke up the captain when the wind was 20 knots.
He gave the order to wake up everyone else.
I then put away the cushions and plants, closed the windows of the bow lounge and some hatches". This is the story told to investigators, according to what ANSA has learned, by Matthew Griffiths, the sailor who on the night of the storm was on watch on the bridge of the Bayesian, the sailing ship that sank on August 19 in the Porticello sea, in the Palermo area.
Griffiths, defended by lawyers Mario Scopesi and Corrado Bregante who also assisted the engineer officer Tim Parker Eaton, was heard as a person informed of the facts. The sailor would not have spoken about the hatches, which were not his responsibility.
The ship tilted and we were thrown into the water.
Then we managed to get back on board and tried to save those we could".
These are the words, according to what ANSA has learned, of Matthew Griffiths, the sailor who on the night of the storm was on watch on the bridge of the Bayesian, the sailing ship that sank on August 19 in the sea of ​​Porticello, in the Palermo area. "The boat was tilted - is the sailor's story - and we were walking on the walls. We saved whoever we could, even Cutfield saved the little girl and her mother".