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Jason Ma

Ship captain who saw Mike Lynch's yacht sink blames 'extreme mast'

Mike Lynch (Credit: Yui Mok—PA Images via Getty Images)

An eye witness to the sinking of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch's yacht on Monday attributed the tragedy to the extremely tall mast, which made the vessel more vulnerable to the violent storm that was lashing the area.

Dutch ship captain Karsten Börner, whose own boat was anchored near Lynch's Bayesian, told the Financial Times that the superyacht appeared to have stability problems.

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