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Business Insider

The wife of missing UK billionaire Mike Lynch has described how the superyacht they were travelling on tilted before sinking, and reportedly had to walk on broken glass to escape it.
Speaking to Italy’s La Repubblica, Angela Bacares said that she and her husband were woken up at 4am (local time) on Monday when the yacht, the Bayesian, “tilted”.
The 57-year-old told the publication that they initially weren’t worried, and she got out of bed to see what was happening. Glass then shattered, causing confusion.
Bacares sustained injuries to her feet likely caused by walking on broken glass during the sinking, the outlet reported.
The injuries have confined her to a wheelchair, and she also has bandages on other parts of her body, the report said.
The 183ft superyacht was carrying 22 people when it capsized early on Monday morning while docked outside the Sicilian port of Porticello. Six people, including Lynch and his daughter, remain missing, while one body has been recovered, local media reported.
Italian news agency Ansa reported that the vessel capsized when a sea tornado, or waterspout, hit the area during sudden storms.
It cited witnesses saying that the boat’s mast broke while it was anchored in the storm, causing it to lose balance and capsize.
It said that rescuers believe the bodies of the missing are trapped in the vessel, which is about 50m (164 feet) below the water’s surface.
The director general of Sicily’s civil protection agency, Salvatore Cocina, told the BBC that Hannah Lynch, Mike Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter, is among those missing.

Dr Domenico Cipolla, who works at the Palermo hospital where some of the survivors are being treated, said they are “very tired” and “constantly asking about the missing people.”
“We have given the survivors this information, but they are talking and crying all the time because they have realised that there is little hope of finding their friends alive.”
Lynch is one of the UK’s leading tech entrepreneurs, having founded the software company Autonomy, which was sold to Hewlett-Packard for US$11 billion.
The sale resulted in a legal battle, with Lynch acquitted on fraud charges in the US in June.
According to reports, Lynch was celebrating the acquittal on the yacht trip before it capsized.
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Mike Lynch’s wife walked on broken glass to escape sinking superyacht Bayesian: report

The superyacht Bayesian capsized off the coast of Sicily on Monday. Photo: EPA-EFE/Perini Navi Press Office 

Italian fire brigade boats sail as a rescue operation continues for the missing people who were on board the sunken superyacht. Photo: EPA-EFE

5 bodies found on wreck of UK tech mogul Mike Lynch’s Bayesian superyacht

Italian Firefighters scuba divers bring ashore in a green bag the body of one of the victims of the UK flag vessel Bayesian on Wednesday. Photo: AP

The ‘Bayesian’ sailing boat, in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Photo: EPA-EFE/Perini Navi Press Office

British entrepreneur Mike Lynch went missing after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily. Photo: Reuters

Rescuers on Wednesday search the area where a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Porticello, near the Sicilian city of Palermo, Italy. Photo: Reuters

UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch missing, 1 dead after yacht sinks off Sicily in storm

Mike Lynch, is among several people missing after a luxury yacht capsized off the coast of Sicily. Photo: Getty

Emergency and rescue services work near the scene where a luxury yacht sank in the early hours of Monday, off the coast of Porticello, near the Sicilian city of Palermo, Italy. Photo: Reuters

Mike Lynch is among several people missing after a luxury yacht capsized off the coast of Sicily. Photo: Getty

Divers search for missing people after a yacht sank off Sicily, Italy on Monday. Photo: Vigili del Fuoco / Handout via Reuters

Emergency services at the scene of the search for a missing yacht in Porticello Santa Flavia, Italy on Monday. Photo: LaPresse via AP

Emergency services at the scene of the search for a missing yacht, in Porticello Santa Flavia, Italy on Monday. Photo: LaPresse via AP

Experienced cave divers for deep-sea recoveries arrive by helicopter near the pier in Palermo, Sicily, Italy on Monday. Photo: EPA-EFE

Emergency services work near the scene where a sailing boat sank in the early hours of Monday near the Sicilian city of Palermo, Italy. Photo: Reuters

The Bayesian sailing boat has sunk off the coast of Sicily. Photo: Perini Navi Press Office / Handout / EPA-EFE

The 3 main reasons Mike Lynch’s superyacht sank near Sicily

The 56-metre-long luxury sailboat, the Bayesian. Photo: EPA-EFE/Perini Navi Press Office


The ‘Bayesian’ sailing boat, in Palermo, Sicily. Photo: EPA-EFE/Perini Navi Press Office

Rescue boats are seen off the coast of Porticello near Palermo, on Tuesday, a day after the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian sank. Photo: AFP

Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy Group, is among those missing after a superyacht sank off southern Italy. Photo: Pool/AFP

The 56-metre-long luxury sailing boat, the Bayesian. Photo: EPA-EFE/Perini Navi Press Office

A woman watches rescue teams at work in Porticello near Palermo. Photo: AFP

Morgan Stanley’s Bloomer also missing in Mike Lynch yacht tragedy, search resumes near Sicily

Divers operate in the sea to search for the missing after a luxury yacht sank off Sicily, on August 19. Photo: Vigili del Fuoco/Reuters

Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer is among those confirmed missing by Italian authorities after the luxury yacht they were on board sank off the coast of Sicily early on Monday. Photo: SCMPOST

UK businessman Mike Lynch is among those missing after a superyacht sank off southern Italy. Photo: AFP

The Bayesian sailing boat, in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Photo: EPA-EFE/PERINI Navi Press Office

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Six people, including the billionaire and his daughter, remain missing, while one body has been recovered


Six people, including the billionaire and his daughter, remain missing, while one body has been recovered.
