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A meteorologist's warning after the sinking of the luxury yacht in the Mediterranean

2024-08-21 17:42:12Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
A meteorologist's warning after the sinking of the luxury yacht in the
A meteorologist's warning after the sinking of the luxury yacht in the Mediterranean

The sinking of a luxury yacht moored off the coast of Sicily is the latest indication that the Mediterranean is becoming an increasingly dangerous sea to navigate, according to climate experts and captains.

The bodies of two of the six people missing after the luxury yacht Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily have been recovered by divers this afternoon, bringing the death toll to three.

The bodies are believed to be those of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter.

The 56m yacht Bayesian was hit by a severe storm on Monday. It sank within minutes, Reuters reports.

Climatologists say global warming is the cause of more frequent and stronger storms at sea, which is used as a "summer playground" for millions of tourists, including the wealthy who sail on superyachts.

Luca Mercalli, president of the Italian Meteorological Association, said the sea surface temperature around Sicily in the days before the shipwreck was around 30 degrees Celsius, almost three degrees above normal.

"This creates a large source of energy that contributes to these storms," ​​Mercalli told Reuters.

The changes in the "Mare Nostrum" (Our Sea), as the ancient Romans called the Mediterranean, are also noticed by experienced captains such as Massimo Aramu, who runs the Akua sailing school on the coast near the Italian capital.

Currently sailing around Greece, Aramu said he does not like sailing the Italian coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea around Sicily or Spain's Balearic Islands because there are "often critical situations with little warning".

The Mediterranean is beginning to resemble the Caribbean

A storm similar to the one that sank Bayesian hit the Balearic archipelago last week, which includes the islands of Ibiza and Mallorca.

Giuliano Gallo, a former captain who has crossed the Atlantic and written several books on sailing, said the Mediterranean is becoming more like the Caribbean, which has areas many ships avoid at certain times of the year.

"However, things are less predictable in the Mediterranean," he said.

Another sign of more volatile weather in the Mediterranean was seen a year ago when thousands of people in Libya died in flash floods caused by a powerful Mediterranean storm driven by increasingly warm seas.

Karsten Borner, the captain of a ship that was docked near the Bayesian but escaped damage, said Monday's storm was "very wild, very intense, wavy and I think it was spinning like a tornado."

He also claims that increasingly intense heat during the summer months plays a role in causing such storms.

"The water is too hot for the Mediterranean and that certainly causes strong storms, like we had weeks ago in the Balearics, like two years ago in Corsica and so on," he said.


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