Their decision comes from the probe into the deaths of seven people after the 56-meter-long superyacht belonging to British tech magnate Mike Lynch sank on Monday off Porticello, near Palermo.
Cutfield on Sunday was questioned by magistrates for two hours.
Seven people died in the shipwreck, including Lynch.
Cutfield, the 50-year-old New Zealander in charge of the Bayesian, was questioned for the second time in a week by Termini Imerese prosecutors probing the case.
During the two-hour-long meeting, the captain replied to questions on the position of the tender, on whether doors and hatches were closed and on when the alarm was sounded.
The Bayesian was struck by what authorities think was a localised and powerful extreme weather event called a downburst.
Also under consideration was the approximately 32-minute period between when the superyacht started taking in water and when a red flare was launched from a life raft, investigative sources said.
The opening of the official probe into the captain’s potential responsibility was a key step for prosecutors to proceed with the autopsies on the seven victims.
The autopsies are to be carried out by the doctors of the institute of forensic medicine of the local Policlinico hospital, investigative sources explained.
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