Inside the Shocking Sicily Yacht Tragedy That Left 7 People Dead [Video]

Originally appeared on E! Online

Nobody was trying to reach the lowest depths of the ocean or otherwise test the boundaries of human endurance.

But what was supposed to be a routine pleasure cruise aboard a superyacht turned deadly all the same on the morning of Aug. 19 when the 184-foot Bayesian got caught in a storm and sank off the coast of Sicily.

“I can’t remember the last time I read about a vessel going down quickly like that,” Stephen Richter of SAR Marine Consulting told NBC News. “You know, completely capsizing and going down that quickly, a vessel of that nature, a yacht of that size.”

Of the 22 people onboard, including crew, seven people died. The last of the bodies was recovered Aug. 23, an expectedly sad coda to what had already been a tragic week as the search for answers as to how this happened got underway.

And to be sure, every …