Cambridge entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter are among six tourists missing after a luxury yacht sank in a tornado off the coast of Sicily, it has been confirmed. A body, believed to be that of the vessel's cook, has been found and police divers are trying to reach the hull of the ship, which is resting at a depth of 50 metres. Dr Mike Lynch.
Picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA Four of the missing passengers are British and two are American, Italian news website la Reppublica stated. Sicily's civil protection agency told the BBC that 18-year-old Hannah Lynch was among those missing with her father, along with the yacht's chef, Ricardo Thomas. The yacht was carrying 10 crew members and 12 passengers.
Fifteen people including Dr Lynch's wife, Angela Bacares, were rescued, according to local media. The British-flagged superyacht, named Bayesian, capsized at about 5am local time off the coast of Palermo when the area was hit by a tornado. One of the survivors was British tourist Charlotte Golunski, who works for Invoke Capital, a company founded by Dr Lynch that has a Cambridge base in JJ Thompson Avenue.
She told la Reppublica she held her one-year-old daughter, Sofia, to stop her from drowning. Where the superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily. Graphic: PA She said: "I held her afloat with all my strength, my arms stretched upwards to keep her from drowning.
"It was all dark. In the water I couldn't keep my eyes open. I screamed for help but all I could hear around me was the sc.