Questions over why Mike Lynch’s ‘Bayesian’ sank so quickly Rescue personnel carry a body bag after luxury yacht Bayesian sank off Porticello, northern Sicily. Photo: Reuters Divers searching the wreck of a ­superyacht owned by tech tycoon Mike Lynch that sank off Sicily found the bodies of five passengers yesterday and searched for one more as questions intensified about why the vessel sank so quickly when a nearby sailing boat remained largely unscathed. Rescue crews unloaded three body bags from rescue vessels that pulled into port at Porticello.

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