World Don't miss out on the headlines from World. Followed categories will be added to My News. The late British billionaire Mike Lynch’s luxury superyacht, Bayesian, will be raised from the ocean’s floor within weeks, the Italian coastguard has said.
Special balloons could be used and the 72-metre mast may be removed to haul the A$68 million boat from 50 metres underwater. Lynch was among seven people, including the tech mogul’s 18-year-old daughter, Hannah, who died after the luxury yacht went down amid a freak storm off the coast of Sicily in August. The 55-metre Bayesian superyacht.
Picture: Supplied According to The Sun, the recovery will be paid for by Revtom, a firm controlled by Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares. It will help a probe of possible culpable shipwreck and manslaughter. The Bayesian’s New Zealand-born captain and two crew members are under investigation.
A coastguard spokesman told The Times: “We expect to see the plan for the raising of the Bayesian submitted to us for our approval in a few weeks. “Everyone wants to move quickly.” The superyacht’s black-box data recorder was being analysed to discover how it drifted for 400 metres from the port of Porticello before being dragged under in minutes.
Tech billionaire Mike Lynch died in the sinking but wife Angela Bacares survived. A company owned by Bacares is paying for the doomed ship to be recovered. Picture: Supplied Prosecutors were also probing ship engineer Tim Parker-Eaton, from Clophill,.