UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter were among the missing. Media reports suggested Lynch's body was the one brought to shore on Thursday. The yacht capsized due to an unexpected weather event.
Rescue divers in Italy have brought to shore a fifth body from a yacht that sank off the coast of Italy , with Italian media reporting it was that of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch. This leaves one person still unaccounted for. A source close to the rescue operation also told the Reuters news agency the body retrieved on Thursday was that of Lynch.
The body of Lynch's 18-year-old daughter Hannah is the one still missing, the unnamed source added. None of the five retrieved bodies so far have been officially identified. One body recovered on Monday was named as Canadian-Antiguan Recaldo Thomas, the ship's chef.
Five bodies found in wreck of luxury yacht off Sicily To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video What happened to the yacht? The superyacht known as the Bayesian belonged to the wife of UK tech entrepreneur Lynch, who had just been acquitted in a major fraud trial in the US. It has been reported that the yacht trip was a celebration of that acquittal. Early on Monday morning, sudden bad weather pushed the yacht out to sea and capsized it.
It came to rest some 50 meters (55 yards) under the surface. Emergency services in Italy have noted that the dark conditions so far beneath the su.