Days after the 56-metre-long off the Sicilian coast, five bodies have been retrieved by divers, including that of the yacht’s billionaire owner . Divers are still searching for one final unaccounted-for individual. The sinking of the Bayesian made headlines around the globe as people all over the world waited for rescue divers to try and find the six missing people hours after the superyacht capsized near Sicily.
Of the 22 people on board at the time of the storm, 15 survived on a lifeboat, including the billionaire’s wife . The first death was confirmed to be the ship’s onboard chef, Canadian . Six individuals were declared missing, including British tech-billionaire Mike Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter , Morgan Stanley International chairman and his wife , and Lynch’s lawyer and his wife .
However as the hours passed, the rescue mission slowly became a recovery mission, with Italian divers reporting they could see “corpses through the portholes” as they inspected the wreckage. This morning reports came out that five bodies had been recovered in “long and complex” recovery missions, made difficult thanks to the Bayesian’s wreckage being at depths of 50 metres. Italian media reported that the recovery divers found a pair of bodies trapped between mattresses in their cabin.
The identities of the bodies have not yet been provided, but the total death toll from the capsizing of the $58 million luxury ship is now confirmed at six. Lynch had invited several people to celebrate on the superyacht after he was acquitted of criminal fraud charges early this year. Onboard the Bayesian was 12 passengers and 10 crew before it sunk.
Questions are now being raised about what caused the Bayesian to sink so quickly in the freak weather accident..
