Divers search wreck of luxury yacht owned by British tech mogul’s family It sank on Monday off the coast of Sicily. Rescue teams in southern Italy were working Wednesday to recover the remains of most of the six people missing after the crash, Sicily’s civil protection agency confirmed to CBS News. Two bodies have been brought to shore in Porticello, near Palermo, and two more are being brought to shore.
Five bodies have been found, and one person is still missing, the Associated Press reported, as searches concluded for the day.
The rescue effort has been extremely difficult because the Bayesian submarine is now lying at a 90-degree angle to the seabed, 164 feet deep. Divers can spend no more than 10 minutes at the dive site before having to resurface to avoid decompression sickness, or “the bends.”
The Telegraph Reported That bodies Mike Lynch, technology entrepreneurAmong the bodies recovered Wednesday were a 25-year-old man and his 18-year-old daughter, but the head of civil protection would not confirm that report to CBS News.
Six people, including Lynch and his daughter, are missing after the ship sank in a violent storm early Monday morning. A man, the yacht’s chief chef, was found dead shortly after the ship capsized.
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Fifteen passengers and crew members survived the accident, including Lynch’s wife, the ship’s owner.
Besides Lynch and his daughter Hannah, also missing were the tech mogul’s US lawyer Chris Morvillo, a former assistant New York attorney general, his wife Nida, and British banker Jonathan Plummer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International.
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Lynch was acquitted in June 1991. Fraud charges In the United States, that could have led to decades in prison. Lynch’s co-defendant in the fraud case, who was also acquitted, died Saturday after being hit by a car while jogging in England.
Questions have been raised about how such a modern ship could sink in minutes, while nearby ships were largely unaffected. Ships of this class have many safety measures, including watertight sub-compartments designed to prevent them from sinking quickly even if water enters them.
Italian prosecutors are questioning crew members and passengers in an attempt to reconstruct events, including the ship’s captain, 51-year-old New Zealander James Cutfield.
One possible cause is the ship’s keel, a fin-like structure designed to prevent the boat from being tipped sideways by the wind, giving the boat more stability. The Bayesian ship had a retractable or lifting keel, which could be retracted to 4 metres (useful for entering a shallow harbour) or extended to 10 metres. If the keel was up, strong winds could cause the ship to capsize.
Asked whether divers had discovered that the keel of the Albaicin was actually up, an Italian Coast Guard spokesman told CBS News that it was up to prosecutors to answer that question.
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