Tech mogul Mike Lynch's body found after his yacht sank

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He body from British tech magnate Mike Lynch was recovered from the remains on Thursday shipwreck of his yachtsunk off the coast this week Sicily during a severe storm, confirmed Reuters Massimo Mariani, official Ministry of the Interior of Italy.

Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannahkeep going unknown locationHis body could still be inside the sunken vessel or it could have been pulled out to sea when the yacht sank, according to Mariani, who said the bodies of four other people missing in the sinking were found on the yacht on Wednesday.

He BayesianThe 56-metre British-flagged superyacht, carrying 22 passengers and crew, was anchored off the port of Porticello, near Palermo, when disappeared under the waves in a matter of minutes after a strong storm passed.

Lynch, 59, was one of Britain’s Most Famous Tech Entrepreneurs and invited some friends to join him on the yacht to celebrate his recent acquittal in an important case. fraud trial in the united states.

His body was brought to shore in a blue bag and taken by ambulance to the morgue at the nearest hospital.

Besides Lynch and her daughter, there were other people from the ship who did not survive. Judy and Jonathan BloomerNon-executive chairman Morgan Stanley Internationaland a lawyer Clifford Chance Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda.

Fifteen people, including Lynch’s wife, managed to escape, and the body of the cook, Canadian-American Recaldo Thomas, was found near the crash site several hours after the incident.

Italian authorities They have not announced the official identification of the bodies, and the families have not yet commented on the matter.

Representative fire brigadeLuca Cari warned that it could take time, even days, before the last missing person is found, given difficulty for divers to access all parts of the boatwhich lies on its side at a depth of 50 meters.

A judicial investigation has been launched about the event, which has baffled naval experts who say a boat like the Bayesian, built by Italian luxury yacht maker Perini, should have been able to withstand the storm.

Giovanni Costantino, CEO of the Italian Sea Group, which includes Perini, said Bayesian theory was “one of the safest ships in the world” and in principle unsinkable.

Captain James Cutfield and the eight surviving crew members have made no public comments about the disaster.

Challenging conditions

Specialized rescue teams are on duty three days of searching inside the yacht’s hull sank in extremely difficult conditions due to the depth and narrowness of the places visited by divers.

Firefighters compared the efforts to those undertaken on a larger scale in the case of Costa Concordialuxury cruise ship that capsized off the Italian island of Giglio in January 2012, causing death of 32 people.

Once the last body is found, experts will have to decide whether to save the ship.

Constantino claimed that the yacht’s automatic tracking system suggested that 16 minutes from the storm to the flooding.

He said it was clear the boat had taken on a large amount of water, adding that investigators would need to look at what doors or hatches might have been left open, with a particular focus on the main door on the yacht’s port side.

“Perini’s ship survived category 5 hurricane Katrina“Do you think you can’t survive a waterspout here?” he told the newspaper. Corriere della Serareferring to the type of tornado believed to have struck the Bayesian area.

Reuters

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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