Key Points Five bodies have been recovered as one remains missing. Questions are being raised about the cause of the boat sinking. Fifteen people have been rescued and eight were hospitalised after a storm hit the 56m yacht.
Divers in Italy are recovering the bodies of five missing passengers from British tech magnate Mike Lynch's sunken superyacht, while the search continues for one more. Rescue crews unloaded three body bags from rescue vessels that pulled into port at Porticello. Salvatore Cocina, head of the Sicily civil protection agency, said two other bodies had also been found in the wreckage for a total of five.
The operation to search the hull on the seabed 50 meters underwater had quickly turned into a recovery one, not a rescue, given the amount of time that had passed, maritime experts said. The Bayesian, a 56-metre British-flagged yacht, went down in a storm early Monday as it was moored about a kilometre offshore. Civil protection officials said they believed the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout, and sank quickly.
Fifteen people escaped in a lifeboat and were rescued by a nearby sailboat. One body was recovered Monday — that of the ship's chef, Recaldo Thomas, of Antigua. Italian officials previously listed Antigua as the.
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