Divers have recovered the remains of the last person who was left missing when the superyacht Bayesian sank early Monday off the coast of Sicily, the head of the island’s Civil Protection agency, Salvo Cocina, disclosed this to Newsmen on Friday. The body has been brought to shore, not formally identified.
According to Italian media, it is believed to be that of Hannah Lynch, British tech magnate Mike Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter.
Mike Lynch’s body was retrieved Thursday from inside the sunken vessel, which was left resting on the seabed at a depth of more than 160 feet, at a 90-degree angle, making rescue efforts complicated and dangerous.
Lynch, 59, the founder of Autonomy Corporation, had been celebrating his acquittal on fraud charges in the US when the 56-metre sailing boat capsized at about 5am local time on Monday.
Shortly after the 184-foot luxury sailing yacht sank, the body of the ship’s cook was recovered from the water near the wreck. Divers managed to retrieve four other bodies from the Bayesian on Wednesday.
With the recovery of the body on Friday, the total number of victims rises to seven, accounting fully for all of those who were on the boat owned by Mike Lynch’s wife Angela Bacares.
Fifteen people survived the sinking, including Bacares. The survivors were found on a life raft by the captain of a boat that had been anchored nearby.
According to sources among the firefighters, the divers had also started inspecting the seabed around the wreck.
Prosecutors have been questioning survivors and witnesses to determine what could have caused the luxury superyacht, equipped with state-of-the-art safety equipment, to sink within what witnesses said was a matter of minutes during a storm.
