Karsten Borner, the captain of the Sir Robert Baden Powell, which was anchored near the doomed yacht that sunk in Italy, has revealed Mike Lynch's surviving wife, Angela Bacares, refused to leave after being rescued because her daughter and husband were still in the water. Mr Borner and his first mate helped the surviving passengers, including Ms Bacares after finding them aboard a raft, offering food, water and blankets. “[Ms Bacares] didn't want to leave because her husband and her daughter were still down," Mr Borner told PEOPLE Magazine.
"She was picked up a little bit later because I asked the Coast Guard to take her as I thought she needed medical help. "Then, over the course of the next two, three hours — [I] don't know exactly how much later — the coast guards came and the rest of the Bayesian people went away with them.” Mr Borner recalled how the weather rapidly worsened in the lead-up to the storm that would sink the $27 million yacht.
“The weather turned very quickly and reached us even more quickly,” he told the magazine. “And the Bayesian was there at the time. It was anchored like us.
We kept an eye on it. We had turned the engine on to maintain our position in case the anchor didn’t hold and were carefully watching it to keep at a distance from it as well. We were the only two ships out in the bay.
” The vessel, with 22 tourists and crew aboard, was caught in a ferocious storm on August 19, while anchored off the coast of northern Sicily. It i.