Body of UK tech mogul Mike Lynch retrieved from his Bayesian superyacht
- 15 people including Lynch’s wife managed to get to safety, four other bodies have been found, with Lynch’s daughter still unaccounted for
The body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch was retrieved on Thursday from the wreck of his family yacht that sank earlier this week off the coast Sicily during a violent tempest, a source close to the rescue operation said.
Lynch’s 18-year daughter Hannah is still unaccounted for, the source said. The bodies of the other four people who vanished when the boat went down were recovered from the yacht on Wednesday.
The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre-long (184-ft) superyacht carrying 22 passengers and crew, was anchored off the port of Porticello, near Palermo, when it disappeared beneath the waves in a matter of minutes after a fierce storm struck.
Lynch, 59, was one of Britain’s best-known tech entrepreneurs and had invited friends to join him on the yacht to celebrate his recent acquittal in a major US fraud trial.
His body was brought ashore in a blue body bag and driven in an ambulance to a nearby hospital morgue.
