Search efforts to find the sixth and final missing person from the Bayesian superyacht continue today after five bodies were discovered in the wreckage of the luxury boat which sank off the coast of Sicily . Four bodies were brought back to shore in Porticello on Wednesday , with authorities reporting they had spotted a fifth body inside the vessel which sank after it was caught up in bad weather on Monday. As the search for the sixth person – who remains unaccounted for – resumed on Thursday morning, the fifth body was recovered from the wreck.
The identities of those recovered have not been confirmed, but billionaire tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his daughter were among the missing. The luxury vessel, named the Bayesian, was moored half-a-mile off the coast of Porticello when it sank around 5am local time on Monday while reportedly on a cruise to celebrate Mr Lynch’s recent acquittal of fraud charges in the United States. Who is involved and why were they there? British technology tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah – who had recently finished her A-Levels and was bound for Oxford – have been missing since the Bayesian sank on Monday .
They were among six missing persons, one of whom is still unaccounted for, after 15 of the other 22 people onboard were rescued after escaping onto a lifeboat. Also officially unaccounted for as of Thursday were Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley and insurance company Hiscox, and his wife, Judy, a respected .