UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch was among six people lost at sea Monday after a superyacht sank off the Italian island of Sicily during a sudden storm Porticello, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th Aug, 2024) tech tycoon Mike Lynch was among six people lost at sea Monday after a superyacht sank off the Italian island of Sicily during a sudden . The 56-metre (180-foot) long luxury yacht had been moored off Porticello, east of , when violent winds and swept suddenly up the coast before dawn. Lynch's Angela Bacares was among 15 people rescued but the businessman and his daughter Hannah Lynch were missing, Salvo Cocina, head of the Civil Protection Agency in Sicily, told AFP.
Bacares suffered light injuries and was spotted by AFP being wheeled into a hospital in Termini Imerese. Lynch, 59, is a celebrated sector entrepreneur and investor, sometimes referred to as the 's answer to . Divers who recovered a first body in the area earlier on Monday had seen one of the missing six trapped inside the sunken vessel, according to a source close to the recovery operation.
"It was terrible. The boat was hit by really strong wind and shortly after it went down," a British survivor named as Golunski told ANSA agency. The Bayesian, flying the British flag, had 22 people aboard, including 10 crew members, the coast guard said.
Most of those aboard were British, and the passengers were guests of Lynch, according to Italian . - 'Screaming' - Golunski said her one-year-old daughter, named by.