The scuba divers They found the body of the British tycoon of technology Mike Lynchwhose luxurious superyacht shipwrecked on Monday off the coast of Sicilythe Italian coast guard reported on Thursday, which continues the search for the last missing.
In total, 15 people were rescued, and three men and three women disappeared in the wreck of the yacht “Bayesian“, which is sank Monday morning in a matter of minutes about 700 meters from the port of Porticellonear Palermo, after the passage of a tornado.
The coastguardwho recovered four bodies on Wednesday and a fifth on Thursday morning, said they had already removed the bodies of all the victims malethus confirming the Lynch’s death. The death toll rises to sixsince the body of a crew member was found on Monday. A source close to the investigation had indicated that the bodies of the tycoon and his daughter Hannah were not among those recovered on Wednesday, therefore, it is believed that the last missing It would be this 18 year old girl.
Lynch, 59, a billionaire known as the “British Bill Gates“, he celebrated on board the luxurious yacht with friends, collaborators and lawyers the beginning of his “second life“. In recent years, the businessman has been in the news mainly for a judgment in a case of fraud linked to the sale of the software firm Autonomywho had founded the American group HPfor $11 million in 2011.
In 2023was extradited of the United Kingdom to United States to be tried for this case, but it was acquitted in June after a trial in San Francisco, California. “I look forward to returning to the UK and meet again with what I love most: my family and innovation in my specialty,” he said then.
In addition to the tycoon and his daughter, the other four people missing on Monday they were Jonathan Bloomerpresident of Morgan Stanley International, a subsidiary of the American bank, and his wifeand Chris Morvilloa lawyer who defended Mike Lynch in his US trial, and his wifeJonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy “were amazing people and an inspiration to many, but above all they focused on their family and loved them,” his family said in a statement.
New reports on what happened
The witnesses Initials of the shipwreck reported that the very tall mast of 75 meters of the yacht had broken, but new information He said Wednesday that this may not have been the case. The speed at which the ship sank and the fact that other vessels around it were not affected raise doubtsin particular as to whether the ballasted keel, which acts as a counterweight to the imposing mast, was lowered or raised at the time of the storm.
The pattern of The Italian Sea Groupowner of the shipyard Perini Navi who built the “Bayesian”, aimed at a human error. “Everything that has happened points to a long series of errors. The passengers They should not have been in the cabins, the ship should not have been anchored,” he said on Thursday. Giovanni Constantino, in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
“Instead, this yacht took on water “While the guests were still in their cabins, it only takes a 40-degree angle for people in a cabin to find themselves with the door on top of them. Can you imagine a 60- or 70-year-old man climbing out?” he said. Constantine and added that “They fell into a trap, these poor people ended up like mice“.
Source: Ambito
