Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife are among six people missing after a mega-yacht sank off the Italian coast on Monday morning, according to reports and officials. The couple along with the four others are now feared dead as authorities continue their search mission. Bloomer is still missing after the Bayesian, a 184-foot luxury sailboat, capsized with 22 people on board near the port of Porticello following a tornado strike, according to Salvatore Cocina, head of Sicily's civil protection agency.
His wife is also unaccounted for, The Daily Mail reported. British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, 59, and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah, also remain missing since the shipwreck. The Italian agency also confirmed that Chris Morvillo, an attorney with the British law firm Clifford Chance, who represented Lynch in a major fraud case in California earlier this year, is among the missing, according to The Guardian.
Italian officials have confirmed the death of the ship's chef, Canadian-born Thomas Recaldo, whose body has been recovered. Bloomer, who is reportedly a close friend of Lynch, is also the chairman of insurance provider Hiscox and was previously the CEO of Prudential, according to his LinkedIn profile. Fifteen others on board, including Lynch's wife Angela Bacares, who owns the yacht, and a one-year-old girl, were able to escape the sinking vessel.
The yacht had 10 crew members and 12 passengers on board when it sank. Officials said that eight of t.