Tragically News in Australia sailboats park 4 people’s death and 2 got missing this morning due to bad accidentally an old man coast this may them soul rest in peace rip
When the yacht was found off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, drifting and no one on board, there were many theories about what could have happened to its three middle-aged crew members.
There were suggestions the skipper, Des Batten, and brothers Peter and John Tunstead staged their own disappearance for insurance purposes or suffered at the hands of drug smugglers or pirates.
One of the wilder theories was that some kind of paranormal event had happened aboard their catamaran and inevitably, comparisons were made to the lost crew of another “ghost” ship, the Mary Celeste.
But yesterday a coroner in Townsville, Queensland, ended the speculation that has been buzzing around the bars of Australian yachting clubs for months by ruling that the three friends drowned in a freak accident during what was supposed to have been a trip of a lifetime, even though their bodies have never been found.
The trio, described as “typical Aussie blokes”, vanished after setting sail on April 15 last year on a planned two-month trip, bound for Western Australia where they all lived. Three days later, the white-painted vessel which Mr Batten had only recently bought for £60,000 was found adrift and with a ripped sail about 100 miles north-east of Townsville, near the Whitsunday islands.
The engine was idling, a half-empty cup of coffee and a laptop computer were sitting on a table, a newspaper was lying open with some pages strewn on the floor and clothing had been piled on a bench.
The men went to sea with a large supply of food, three cases of beer, a .44 calibre rifle and 100 rounds of ammunition, the inquest was told.
Coroner Michael Barnes said evidence put before him during a four day inquest led him to conclude that “an unfortunate series of events,” befell the trio, who were all relatively inexperienced sailors, only a few hours after they set sail.
In the scenario he laid out, the coroner said one of the brothers attempted to free a fishing line that had become wrapped around the yacht’s propeller when he fell overboard. The other brother fell in while trying to rescue him.
Mr Batten tried to drop the sails so he could turn around and go back for his two friends but a change in the wind’s direction caused the yacht’s boom to swing and knock him overboard
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