Five witnesses · Thirty sourced moments
Follow what each witness says happened before and after the collision. These animations are a reading aid: they show the sequence of an account, the limits of observation and the questions that remain.
Testimony, not a forensic reconstruction. The supplied automated transcripts cover the first public sitting on 13 October 2026. They are not a certified verbatim record. No shared clock, collision angle, precise route or measured speed is established here. The vessel shapes are illustrative; no seating positions or movements of people are assigned.
Part I · Ocean Angel operator at impact
The operator’s account of taking the helm, seeing lights and turning.
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Event 1 of 6
Dylan says Tyrone initially steered and the departure lights were off. He says he switched them on after taking over.
An admission about departure does not decide lighting immediately before impact.
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The operator’s account of taking the helm, seeing lights and turning.
1 / 6 · Admission + testimony
Dylan says Tyrone initially steered and the departure lights were off. He says he switched them on after taking over.
Limit: An admission about departure does not decide lighting immediately before impact.
2 / 6 · Testimony
He names Tyrone as the new lookout and says no sighting was reported to him.
Limit: An assigned lookout is not proof of an effective lookout; Tyrone’s own account is unavailable.
3 / 6 · Testimony
Dylan says he personally saw red and green navigation lights ahead.
Limit: The sighting distance and time are estimates. His “15 minutes” refers to the helm handover, not a proved warning interval.
4 / 6 · Disputed account
He says he altered to starboard, correcting an initial reference to port.
Limit: Only his claimed turn is illustrated. Its angle, extent, timing and the other vessel’s track are unknown.
5 / 6 · Unresolved
His remembered contact side differs from the damage proposition put to him. The hearing does not settle the collision geometry.
Limit: No illustrated meeting point, crossing angle, closing speed or track for Cazorla Jr is asserted.
6 / 6 · Testimony
Dylan describes Ocean Angel cut in half and overturned, with life jackets in the water. He says he gave Roxan a jacket.
Limit: Roxan could not identify who gave her one. The retrieval description is tested in questioning; exact wreck geometry is not established.
Context: Dylan says the speed was moderate and denies receiving a request to slow down. Roxan and Elias describe faster travel after his takeover; Elias says the women’s warnings were ignored. These are unresolved differences, not a verdict on credibility.
A passenger’s perception of motion, a jacket request and a gap in memory.
1 / 6 · Testimony
Roxan describes Tyrone driving moderately, then Dylan taking over and travelling very fast.
Limit: These are comparative perceptions from a passenger, not instrument measurements.
2 / 6 · Testimony
She places herself on the second bench forward of the captain at the stern and says the raised bow blocked her view ahead.
Limit: No named seating chart or measured line of sight is available; the animation does not place people.
3 / 6 · Testimony
She says she could not swim, asked Dylan for a jacket and was reassured she was safe with him. She did not receive one before the collision.
Limit: A request and its reported response are evidence. They do not alone establish the cause of anyone’s death.
4 / 6 · Testimony
She says she saw no navigation lights on Ocean Angel and no oncoming vessel or lights before impact.
Limit: Not seeing a light is different from proving the fixture was off from every viewing position.
5 / 6 · Limit of observation
Her last recalled event before being in the water was the life-jacket discussion. She cannot describe the impact itself.
Limit: The gap stays a gap. There is no invented collision scene or body movement.
6 / 6 · Testimony
She describes holding floating material, a boat passing, then another responding after a phone light was flashed.
Limit: The first boat’s occupants’ awareness is unknown. She cannot give a reliable elapsed rescue time.
Context: Her evidence can describe what she experienced and saw from her seat. It cannot establish a measured speed, the complete light sectors or an impact she does not remember. Dylan disputes her speed account.
A passenger’s account of warnings, limited visibility, capsize and rescue.
1 / 6 · Testimony
Elias describes Dylan taking over from Tyrone and operating faster, in a way Elias says felt less safe.
Limit: The comparison is his perception; no measured speed is established.
2 / 6 · Disputed testimony
He names Debbie, Roxan and a woman from Choiseul as asking Dylan to slow down because they could not swim. He says Dylan did not slow in response.
Limit: Dylan denies anyone asked him. Elias later explicitly reaffirms the women’s warnings.
3 / 6 · Testimony
Elias says he observed no Ocean Angel navigation lights and that the high bow prevented him seeing far ahead.
Limit: His viewing limitation prevents a confident account of the other vessel’s approach.
4 / 6 · Limit of observation
He describes a loud noise and finding himself in the water with Ocean Angel already capsized.
Limit: He did not see the contact. His later side-of-impact reasoning is not a direct observation.
5 / 6 · Testimony
He says he grabbed a floating life jacket and got onto the capsized Ocean Angel.
Limit: The icon represents reported flotation, not the measured shape or stability of the damaged hull.
6 / 6 · Testimony
He recalls rescue after roughly 15 minutes and being taken to Canaries with Debbie’s body. He later lost awareness.
Limit: The estimate is not a timed log. His account does not establish the complete rescue or medical chronology.
Context: Elias did not see the other boat before impact. His contact-side explanation was an inference. A later question asked about complaints ‘other than the girls’; the chair’s broad restatement dropped that qualification. Elias then reaffirmed the women’s warnings.
The other operator’s account of lights, impact and assistance.
1 / 6 · Testimony
Tyson describes taking the boat north earlier in the day and operating the return journey.
Limit: The displayed progress is only a sequence cue, not a route, heading or speed.
2 / 6 · Testimony
He says his navigation lights were on and he saw only shore lights before the accident.
Limit: A claimed switch state does not independently verify visibility, brightness or light sectors.
3 / 6 · Reported account
Tyson says he had a lookout and that nothing was seen.
Limit: The lookout has not given oral evidence in the supplied day. This does not prove the other vessel was unlit.
4 / 6 · Limit of observation
His account moves from seeing no approaching lights to feeling the impact.
Limit: The animation inserts no unseen approach, collision angle or point of contact.
5 / 6 · Testimony
Tyson says he put the boat in neutral immediately after impact.
Limit: Neutral does not mean the engine stopped. Pascal’s later report of an engine still running can be compatible.
6 / 6 · Testimony
He says he entered the water and saved two people; he does not name them in this passage.
Limit: Pascal supports Tyson going to assist, but does not independently verify the exact two-person rescue count.
Context: Tyson accepted that the displayed licence expired on 18 July 2015 and admitted at least four beers. Those admissions matter, but neither a blood-alcohol level nor impairment or collision causation is established in this record.
An owner aboard distinguishes the earlier voyage from the damaged boat’s final movements.
1 / 6 · Testimony
Pascal says he asked Tyson to take it easier near Windjammer because of choppy conditions; Tyson immediately complied.
Limit: This is an attributed change in pace, not a measured deceleration or a fixed time before impact.
2 / 6 · Testimony
He describes a later stop to obtain a life jacket for Roman William, clarifying that Taylor made the request.
Limit: The slowdown-to-request and request-to-impact intervals describe different periods. A separate 50–60-minute estimate needs reconciliation. Retrieval does not establish that Roman wore the jacket at impact.
3 / 6 · Limit of observation
Pascal says his low seated position obstructed the view beyond the bow. He heard no lookout warning and describes the impact.
Limit: A lookout’s position or survival cannot by itself establish a collision angle or what the lookout could see.
4 / 6 · Testimony
He says Tyson went to assist. Pascal then tried the controls while Mavado worked at the engine because steering had disconnected; the engine still ran.
Limit: This steering problem is reported after impact. The boat’s heading, distance travelled and location are unknown.
5 / 6 · Testimony
Pascal says they did not get far before the boat sank.
Limit: This is his direct sinking account. The symbolic descent supplies no depth, duration, heel angle or physical failure mechanism.
6 / 6 · Testimony
He says he took a life vest, swam to a nearby yacht and first called his aunt using someone’s phone.
Limit: This account does not establish the timing of every emergency call or the conduct of other rescuers.
Context: Pascal says Tyson immediately slowed when asked and did not accelerate again. This differs from the allegation that warnings aboard Ocean Angel were ignored. His approximate intervals need reconciliation into one timeline.
The testimony does not provide a reliable joint track for the two craft. Drawing a crossing angle or impact point would give an unverified interpretation the appearance of measured fact. Where a witness did not see the approach or does not remember contact, the animation preserves that gap.
The relative shapes and colours follow the selected vessel references. They do not authenticate the photographs, establish dimensions or verify fitted navigation-light positions. Read the vessel identification evidence and the testimony comparison alongside the accounts.
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