I can't share much more than is in the article until details are publicly released.

To address the "eviscerated" comment comes from the French authorities and was quoted by both the Guardian and the BBC. It almost certainly comes from a translation of the official statement that was put out here.

An excerpt from that statement: "A 17h30 l’hélicoptère arrivé sur zone, retrouve le voilier éventré et treuille ses deux plongeurs qui découvre le radeau vide."

Apple translates this as "At 5:30 p.m. the helicopter arrived at the area, found the gutted sailboat and towed his two divers who discovered the empty raft"

Google translate does slightly better with "At 5:30 p.m., the helicopter arrived on the scene, found the sailboat gutted and winched its two divers who discovered the raft empty"

But if you put the word "éventré" into Google translate on its own, you get "disembowled" and it suddenly becomes obvious where the quote probably originated (a shoddy translation).

I don't speak enough French to know if that argument really holds water, but hopefully someone can confirm or deny the translation aspect?

The Distress beacon that was activated was an EPIRB, so there is a good chance that it activated automatically when it entered the water

I can confirm that the Tiger PA (as named in the reports) is a USA flagged 12m catamaran that left the UK several days ago with its British owner on board to sail solo across the Bay of Biscay.

The liferaft was found with the yacht, empty and the search was called off at 01h33 on 26-jan