Tweet Facebook Mail Police divers have resumed searching for six people believed trapped in the hull of a superyacht that sank in deep seas off the Italian island of Sicily. The missing include British tech magnate Mike Lynch who was celebrating his recent acquittal on fraud charges with the people who had defended him at trial. The resting place of their sailboat is some 50 metres underwater off Porticello — a depth that required special precautions that complicated the work: Recovery crews said on Tuesday (into early Wednesday AEST) they were working in 12-minute shifts, a measure that slowed down their efforts to reach the cramped inside of the wreck.
British tech magnate Mike Lynch walks into federal court in San Francisco, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke, File) The Bayesian, a 56-metre British-flagged yacht, was moored about a kilometre) offshore when a storm rolled in before 4am (midday AEST) on Monday. Civil protection officials said they believed the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout, and sank quickly.
Grainy film from closed-circuit cameras from shore, broadcast on the website of the Giornale di Sicilia , showed the majestic, illuminated 75-metre mast of the Bayesian weathering the storm and then disappearing over the course of a minute. Fifteen of the 22 people aboard survived, including a mother who reported holding her one-year-old baby over the waves to save her. One body has been recovered, identified by officials as .