Italian media reported that of the five bodies, found between Wednesday and Thursday, only technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch could be identified.. Considering this important advance in The rescue mission raises the death toll to sixfollowing the recovery of the first body on Monday.
Before the first two finds were announced, an AFP journalist saw half a dozen boats leave the port of Porticello, the site of the shipwreck east of Palermo, in a matter of minutes. Some returned later and deposited two body bags in a tent on the dock.
This is how the luxury British yacht sank in Sicily in just 60 seconds
A video recent security cameras at the port It shows the shipwreck in just over a minute, during which the yacht tilts 90 degrees and plunges into the sea..
This audiovisual material discards previous theories about the cmast lapse or impact with an obstaclesuggesting instead that the iMassive water ingress due to the storm may have caused the yacht to lose stability.
“The unique glass frame that can be raised and lowered protects guests from wind and spray,” said the Charterworld website, which offered the yacht for rent.
He Bayesianbuilt in 2008 by Perini Navi, It is a luxury yacht known for its 75-metre high aluminium mast and an elegant, minimalist interior design. Its rent cost up to 195,000 euros per week.
A tragic celebration trip
Hours before the waterspout that occurred at dawn on Monday, A party was taking place at the “Bayesian”the 56-metre-long British-flagged yacht, anchored 700 metres off the port of Porticello, with 12 passengers and 10 crew on board.
Lynch, a wealthy businessman nicknamed the “British Bill Gates,” was celebrating with friends, collaborators and lawyers after being acquitted in June in a fraud trial in the United States that could have cost him years in prison.
The ship sank rapidly and 15 people, including nine crew members, were rescued.Another crew member was found dead.
The six people still missing on Wednesday morning were Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah, Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, and his wife, and Chris Morvillo, a lawyer who defended Mike Lynch at his US trial, and his wife.
Search operations continue to find the last missing person, but Firefighters said the operation was “long and complicated.”
A coast guard chief, Captain Vincenzo Zagarola, had already declared on Italian radio on Tuesday that it was “hard to imagine” that the search would end well.
Source: Ambito
