The search is set to resume this morning for the final person missing after a luxury sank in a storm off the coast of Sicily - after five bodies were found inside the wreck yesterday. Six people, including British technology tycoon Mike Lynch, were unaccounted for after the vessel named Bayesian sank around 5am on Monday. The head of Sicily's civil protection agency confirmed that of the five bodies found on Wednesday, only four had been recovered, and the whereabouts of the missing sixth person remains unknown.
As the search enters a fourth day, the identities of the recovered bodies have not yet been confirmed by authorities. The six people missing were Mr Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah; Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer; his wife, Judy Bloomer; Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo; and his wife, Neda Morvillo. Fifteen people including a one-year-old baby escaped the tragedy on a lifeboat, while the body of Canadian-Antiguan national Recaldo Thomas, who was working as a chef on the yacht, was recovered at the scene of the sinking on Monday.
, Photos from the scene this morning show the search mission appears to have resumed. It is now just after 8am in Sicily. The Italian fire service, which has been leading the operation, has not yet released a statement this morning but previous days have seen firefighters resume their search at first light.
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