PORTICELLO, Italy: The physique of British tech magnate Mike Lynch was retrieved on Thursday (Aug 22) from the wreck of his family yacht that sank earlier this week off the coast Sicily throughout a violent tempest, a supply near the rescue operation mentioned.
Lynch’s 18-year daughter Hannah remains to be unaccounted for, the supply mentioned. The our bodies of the opposite 4 individuals who vanished when the boat went down had been recovered from the yacht on Wednesday.
The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56m-long superyacht carrying 22 passengers and crew, was anchored off the port of Porticello, close to Palermo, when it disappeared beneath the waves in a matter of minutes after a fierce storm struck.
Lynch, 59, was one of many UK’s best-known tech entrepreneurs and had invited pals to hitch him on the yacht to rejoice his latest acquittal in a serious US fraud trial.
In addition to Lynch and his daughter, the opposite individuals who failed to flee from the boat had been Judy and Jonathan Bloomer, a non-executive chair of Morgan Stanley Worldwide; and Clifford Probability lawyer Chris Morvillo and his spouse, Neda Morvillo.
Fifteen folks, together with Lynch’s spouse, managed to get to security, whereas the physique of the onboard chef, Canadian-Antiguan nationwide Recaldo Thomas, was discovered close to the wreck hours after the catastrophe.
Specialist rescuers have been looking contained in the hull of the sunken yacht for the previous three days, however operations have been difficult as a result of depth and the narrowness of the locations that the divers are scouring, the hearth brigade mentioned.
It in contrast the efforts to these carried out, on a bigger scale, for the Costa Concordia, the posh cruise liner that capsized off the Italian island of Giglio in January 2012, killing 32 folks.
