Five bodies retrieved from tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s sunken yacht in Sicily
Al Jazeera
Questions abound about what caused the superyacht to sink so quickly when a nearby sailboat was largely spared.
Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily have found the bodies of five passengers and are searching for one more as questions intensify about why the vessel sank so quickly when a nearby sailboat remained largely unscathed.
Rescue crews unloaded three body bags from rescue vessels that pulled into port at Porticello on Wednesday.
Salvatore Cocina, head of the Sicily civil protection agency, said two other bodies had also been found in the wreckage.
The bodies of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah were among those found inside one of the vessel’s cabins between two mattresses, The Telegraph reported.
The Bayesian, a 56-metre (184-foot) British-flagged yacht, went down in a storm early on Monday as it was moored about a kilometre (a half-mile) offshore. Civil protection officials said they believed the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout, and sank quickly.
