fancythat
biglouis
With what is going on in the world at present I am wondering at all this fuss because 6 very rich people die on a luxury yacht in a seastorm. At least most of the crew got away.
I get what you are saying, and I get what others on here are saying.
My take is, it is more of a "man thing".
Big boats, wealth, etc.
And media is more of a man's world, so it gets reported "well".
This sinking dominated the headlines because of who the yacht belonged too,
Mike Lynch, who came from a very ordinary family, mother a nurse, father a fireman, was born with a quite extraordinary intellect. He did a first degree and PHD in maths at Cambridge and then had some revolutionary ideas for the use of statistical theories to understand huge datasets.
With others he set up a company that dveloped these ideas, grew rapidly and about 10 years ago was bought by Hewlett Packard. HP then decided they had paid too much for it and accused Mike Lynch of dishonesty, which he and the other accused denied. The law case over this dragged on for 10 years.
The USA wanted to try him in the USA, where he could have been imprisoned for 20 years or more. Under a grossly unbalanced extradition treaty, British people can be extradited tothe US to be tried for crimes that were not committed in the US but involved US companies while we cannot get the US to send back to the UK US citizens accused of killing people by dangerous driving because we might imprison them, probably only for a couple of years.
In the end he and a colleague Stephen Chamberlain were extradited, kept under house arrest for over a year and finally acquitted of any crime, to the amazement of all, but said to be because Mike Lynch went into the witness book and won the jury over.
This was in June this year. His relief this long ordeal was over must have been immense. being the man he was, to show his gratitude to his legal team he invited the main people involved to join him on a cruise on his boat - and we know what happened.
To you biglouis and fancythat, he may be just a rich man in a big boat, but he was still a man with a family who loved and cared for him and, do not forget, one of his chidren, an 18 year old girl died as well. Money does not leassen grief when tragedies like this occur.
More imprtantly, for those who knew about him and had read more widely than you can be bothered to do before you made your remarks. Mike Lynch was a man of quite exceptional ability - he has been called the British Bill Gates, because of the transformational nature of the work he has done. He was a man of wide intellectual interests and came form modest beginnings and from everything I have read, he was a very nice man, liked by almost everyone who knew him.
He also leaves a grieving wife and mother of the daughter who died and a second daughter.
When so manypeople on here parade their belief in equality and all that rich and hoor should be treated alike and anyone who can show more sympathy for the crew than the others on that ship, merely because those who drowned had more money than the crew is contemptible.
