5 bodies found on wreck of UK tech mogul Mike Lynch’s Bayesian superyacht
- The victims have not yet been identified, though a UK news report says two of the dead were Lynch and his daughter
Divers searching for six people missing after a superyacht sank off Sicily, including UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch, on Wednesday pulled four bodies from the wreck and reportedly found a fifth.
The grim development, after three days of searches since the “Bayesian” went down early on Monday morning, brings the death toll to six – with one person still missing.
There was no official identification of the bodies, thought Britain’s Daily Telegraph reported that two of the dead were Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah.
The 56-metre (185 feet) British-flagged sailing boat had been anchored some 700 metres off Porticello, east of Palermo, when it was struck by a waterspout – akin to a mini-tornado. It sank within minutes.
Fifteen people were rescued, including Lynch’s wife and a woman with a one-year-old baby. But the body of a man, believed to be the yacht’s chef, was found several hours later.
Lynch and his daughter, his lawyer Christopher Morvillo and his wife Neda, and Jonathan Bloomer, the chair of Morgan Stanley International, and his wife Judy, were all reported missing.
