When a boat or yacht happened to be in its centre, it could be lifted and dropped aside.’ Could a waterspout have sunk the Bayesian? It’s hard to say for sure, both experts stress.

WINK News Weather Watchers and viewers sent in images of a waterspout off of the coast of Fort Myers Beach and Sanibel. Chief ...

Salvo Cocina, of Sicily’s civil protection agency, attributed the damage to the boat, which was carrying 22 people including Mike Lynch, the British tech entrepreneur, to a waterspout.

“It looked like angels flying up to Heaven,” Scheid said. While many believe a waterspout is simply a tornado over water, this is only partially true. Depending on their formation, NOAA says ...

A rare and unexpected “black swan” weather event may have led to the luxury Bayesian superyacht’s speedy demise, maritime experts claim.

A father was hailed a hero after he dove into the Atlantic Ocean to save his daughter, who had fallen off the side of a ...

Last year, a sudden storm and waterspout with winds of over 40 miles per hour overturned a tourist boat carrying off-duty intelligence agents on Italy’s Lake Maggiore, killing four.

Watch: These Floridian boaters off the coast of Anna Maria Island spot a rare phenomenon... double waterspouts!

Intense waterspouts, which are rare, can cause boats severe damage or even to capsize. ... which although momentarily quite strong cause little damage because they are over the sea. ...

Waterspouts can chuck boats around 'like toys', ... Iness says that the crew and passengers likely would have had little time to react. ‘Within a waterspout things happen very quickly,’ he says.

In most cases, waterspouts that make landfall are significantly weaker than tornadoes, produce little or no damage and quickly dissipate. The NWS issues Tornado Warnings in these instances. More ...