Everything going on right now after luxury yacht sinks off Sicily with 22 people on board

Six are still missing, including British billionaire tech tycoon Mike Lynch

3 months ago | UPDATED 2 weeks ago

A luxury yacht was slammed by a brutal storm off the coast of Italian island Sicily, and sank quickly when caught in a waterspout yesterday. The super yacht, named the Bayesian, had a crew of 10 on board as well as 12 guests – most being British nationals. The Bayesian was flying a British flag when it sank rapidly, and the last day has seena. rescue effort of specialist cave divers working in 12 minute shifts to try and find the six missing. Here is everything we know about the luxury yacht sinking off Sicily and the circumstances surrounding the Bayesian disaster.

The Bayesian sank at around 4am yesterday

The specialist cave divers are now working rapidly to retrieve six missing people after the luxury super yacht Bayesian sank in a freak storm on Monday morning at around 4am. The Bayesian was anchored off Sicily, and 12 passengers and 10 crew were caught in the disaster. 15 have been rescued, with the Canadian cook of the crew being confirmed as having lost his life. Six are still missing, including British billionaire tycoon Mike Lynch.

Also missing are Mike Lynch’s daughter Hannah, 18. Jonathan Bloomer – the president of Morgan Stanley International and his wife Judy, as well as Christopher J Morvillo and his wife Nada.

The rescue team believe the six of them to be in the ship’s hull – and they will be declared missing until they can be recovered.

Rescue efforts in Sicily. Via Shutterstock

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A sudden storm off Sicily whipped up a waterspout, which caused the rapid sinking of the anchored Bayesian yacht in the early hours of Monday morning. When a nearby yacht captained by Karsten Borner saw a flair, he went over to where the Bayesian was and found a lifeboat filled with 15 people, some injured. Borner then alerted the coastguard who discovered the yacht had sunk to 50 metres near a fishing village off Sicily.

Who is Mike Lynch?

The British billionaire tech tycoon who is missing aftee the yacht sinking off Sicily has previously been described as “the British Bill Gates.” He has recently been involved in legal issues, which in June saw him acquitted of a US fraud trial related to the $11 billion sale of his company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard in 2011 – of which Mike Lynch has personally made $800 million from. Lynch also has a bill from Hewlett-Packard winning a case in 2022, regarding a civil case in which it is seeking $4 billion.

One of the missing is Christopher Morvillo – one of Mike Lynch’s US lawyers at Clifford Chance who was a federal prosecutor in New York in the aftermath of 9/11.

Who survived?

One of the survivors, Charlotte Golunski, has shared the harrowing story of how she briefly lost her one year old daughter Sofia in the water as they abandoned the Baleysian for the lifeboat. “For two seconds I lost the baby in the sea, then I immediately held her again in the fury of the waves,” she told Giornale di Sicilia. “I held her tightly, tightly to me, while the sea was raging. So many were screaming. Fortunately, the lifeboat inflated and 11 of us managed to get on it.”

What is a waterspout that caused the sinking?

Waterspouts are essentially tornadoes that happen over water. They operate and can cause equal amounts of damage as a land tornado, and it is this that caused the Bayesian to sink.

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