# Superyacht vs tornado: tornado wins **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 19, 2024, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superyacht-vs-tornado-tornado-wins/1005907 "2024-08-19T15:11:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superyacht-vs-tornado-tornado-wins/1005907/101 "2025-05-15T20:09:39Z")
> Local media report that he [the diver] was killed by an explosion while using an underwater oxy-hydrogen cutting torch. Dutch marine news outlet Schuttevaer reports that Huijben was working on removing _Bayesian’s_ boom. The team initially attempted to unbolt it, according to the outlet, but when this failed they opted to burn through it. It is believed that an explosion - possibly from hydrogen bubbles - caused a piece of metal to break loose and hit Huijben. > > According to commercial diving historian Francis Hermans, the risk of igniting unburned hydrogen gas from an oxy-hydrogen torch has been known since at least World War II, when U.S. Navy salvage divers found that there could be difficulties with highly explosive gas accumulation in enclosed compartments when working inside of wrecks. This was reportedly among the reasons that Navy operators turned to the oxy-electric arc torch, which requires only oxygen in its gas supply and introduces no flammable gas into the working environment. Most commercial salvors followed suit in the following decades, according to Hermans. > **[Superyacht Salvage Diver May Have Been Killed by Hydrogen Explosion](https://maritime-executive.com/article/superyacht-salvage-diver-may-have-been-killed-by-hydrogen-explosion)** > >  The diver that lost his life while working on the salvage of the lost superyacht Bayesian may have been killed by an explosion from a hydrogen torch,... There is an interim report on by the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch just out on the disaster–which is more complete than the newspaper accounts we have been discussing: > **[2025-Bayesian-InterimReport.pdf](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6821ea1aced319d02c9060f2/2025-Bayesian-InterimReport.pdf)** > > 3.18 MB ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superyacht-vs-tornado-tornado-wins/1005907/102 "2025-05-16T04:09:11Z")
Use obsolete tools; get obsolete results. Almost certainly a management problem. The poor unfortunate worker was just another victim of the initial disaster. Sorry dude; you did not deserve that fate. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superyacht-vs-tornado-tornado-wins/1005907/103 "2025-05-16T04:30:04Z")
The old fortune teller woman warned him to beware the boom from the boom, but he never understood what it meant until it was too late. The old fortune teller woman was kind of an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superyacht-vs-tornado-tornado-wins/1005907/104 "2025-06-20T16:00:25Z")
They have raised the Bayesian: > **[BREAKING: S/Y Bayesian Raised from Seabed! | SY News](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2miJh1j7YA%2F)** > > As proud sponsors of The Yacht Report, we act for the buyer, delivering choice, knowledge, and exceptional service in boat purchasing. Find out more at https... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superyacht-vs-tornado-tornado-wins/1005907.md?page=5)