The Italian coast guard said the body of billionaire tech tycoon Mike Lynch was among five bodies recovered from a luxury superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily earlier this week, with a woman being the last person divers were searching for as of Thursday.
Divers brought a body bag containing a fifth body to shore in Porticello port on Thursday as they continued to search for a sixth missing passenger aboard the 184-foot, British-flagged Bayesian superyacht, which sank in bad weather early Monday.
Italian coast guard authorities have yet to release the identities of the bodies recovered.
British tech titan Lynch was apparently on board the Bayesian to celebrate his recent acquittal on a US fraud charge with colleagues who helped him at trial.
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Mike Lynch was acquitted of US fraud charges in June. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images, File)
The six missing included Mr Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, Christopher Morbillo, an American lawyer at Clifford Chance who represented Mr Lynch in the fraud case, and Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, who testified in Mr Lynch’s defence.
Americans Neda and Chris Morbillo are believed to be among those missing when the Baysian superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily in the early hours of Monday morning. (Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images, File)
Morbillo’s wife, Neda, and Bloomer’s wife, Judy, were also among the missing.
Divers are searching for missing people inside the wreck of the Basian, which is currently submerged 164 feet below sea level. A sixth person, who authorities say is a woman, is still missing, but the search is being considered a recovery after three days of searching produced no signs of life.
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Authorities said the ship was carrying 10 crew members and 12 passengers, including British, American and Canadian nationals, when it was apparently hit by a water tornado and capsized near the port of Porticello, where it was docked, at about 5 a.m. on Monday.
A nearby sailing boat rescued 15 people, including a one-year-old girl. The body of Recardo Tomas, an Antiguan chef who was on board, was recovered on Monday.
The body of the Baysian’s chef, Recardo Thomas, was recovered on Monday. (Recardo Thomas/via Reuters)
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Investigators are trying to determine why the superyacht sank so quickly.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
