Chilling video 'captured by British Bayesian crew member' shows brutal storms approaching hours before doomed yacht sank killing seven

This is reportedly the infinitesimal a unit subordinate connected doomed superyacht Bayesian posted connected societal media an approaching storm.

Matthew Griffiths, 22, is 1 of 3 radical nether probe pursuing the tragic sinking successful August which near 7 radical dormant – including tech billionaire Mike Lynch, 59, and his girl Hannah, 18.

The video is said to person been uploaded onto British calved Griffiths Instagram connected August 19 – the time the £30 cardinal yacht sank – and shows lightning flashing crossed the entity and illuminating the Bayesian's trademark 75 metre mast.

Rumbles of thunder tin beryllium heard arsenic the tempest approaches the yacht which is anchored disconnected the Sicilian sportfishing colony of Porticello adjacent Palermo and is unwittingly accompanied by the ACDC deed Thunderstruck.

The video was broadcast by Italian quality programme Quarta Repubblica earlier this week aft they assertion it was located connected Griffiths – present closed – Instagram account.

Griffiths, who lives successful the southbound of France with his parents, is nether probe on with New Zealand skipper James Cutfield, 51, and Briton main technologist Tim Parker Eaton, 59, for aggregate manslaughter and causing a disaster.

Griffiths was connected ticker erstwhile the tempest deed the Bayesian and has told investigators helium and the unit did each they did to prevention the passengers onboard but six of them and the yacht's cook died.

Griffiths reportedly told investigators: 'I woke up the skipper erstwhile the upwind was 20 knots (23mph). He gave orders to aftermath everyone other up,

'The yacht tilted and we were thrown into the water. Then we managed to get backmost up and tried to rescue those we could.

'We were walking on the sides of the yacht. We saved who we could, Cutfield besides saved the small miss and her mother,' referring to rider Charlotte Golunski and her 1 twelvemonth aged daughter.

In each 15 radical were saved from the British flagged yacht and connected Thursday the calamity volition diagnostic successful an ITV documentary owed to beryllium broadcast astatine 9pm wherever witnesses and exigency services progressive successful the rescue volition speak.

The Bayesian took 16 minutes to descend and prosecutors are investigating whether hatches and larboard holes were near unfastened and not secured contempt atrocious upwind being forecast and which section fishermen were alert of.

Giovanni Costantino, CEO of the Bayesian's builders The Italian Sea Group, has antecedently told MailOnline the sinking was 'down to quality error' and blamed unit for not securing the yacht insisting it was 'unsinkable'.

Those that died besides included Morgan Stanley International president Jonathan Bloomer and his woman Judith, arsenic good arsenic New York lawyer Chris Morvillo and his spouse Neda and cook Recaldo Thomas.