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A CNN team on the ground saw divers carry the final body bag from a rescue boat onto the harbour of Porticello, bringing to an end a five-day search by Italian authorities for the victims of the shipwreck. With the wreck located nearly 50 metres underwater, divers have had only around 12 minutes to reach the site and explore its cabins before having to resurface, complicating their efforts to bring all seven bodies to shore. READ MORE: Raucous applause as Harris accepts nomination in historic moment Hannah Lynch and her father Mike Lynch.

(Lynch family) After retrieving six bodies from the wreck over the past four days, Lynch's was the final body being searched for by Italian authorities. The body of her father, Mike Lynch, was retrieved and identified on Thursday, an Italian interior ministry official told Reuters. The British-flagged vessel, with 22 passengers and crew members on board, sank on Monday after its mast, one of the world's tallest, broke in half during a violent storm.



Fifteen people were rescued on Monday and one body was recovered – thought to be that on the onboard chef Recaldo Thomas. A firefighter cave diver as he prepares to reach the wrecked luxury superyacht Bayesian that sunk early Monday off the Sicilian coast in Porticciolo, in southern Italy on Friday, Aug. 23, 2024 (Vigili del Fuoco via AP, HO) The 56-metre (184-foot) British-flagged Bayesian was known for its.

.. CNN.

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