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. The 56-metre (180-foot) long luxury yacht had been moored off Porticello, east of Palermo, when violent winds and rains swept suddenly up the coast before dawn. Lynch’s wife Angela Bacares was among the 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.
Italian police officers patrol the port as the search continues for six passengers missing from a sailboat that sank off the coast of Porticello, north-western Sicily, on 19 August 2024 | AFP Bacares suffered light injuries and was spotted by AFP being wheeled into a hospital in Termini Imerese. Lynch, 59, is a celebrated technology sector entrepreneur and investor, sometimes referred to as the UK’s answer to Bill Gates. Divers who recovered the 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.
Italian firefighters and health workers carry a body bag with a victim after a sailboat sank off the coast of Porticello, nosthwestern of Sicily Island, on August 19, 2024. | AFP “It was terrible. The boat was hit by really strong wind and shortly after it went down,” a British survivor named as Charlotte Golunski told ANSA news agency.
The Bayesian, flying the British flag.