Police divers resumed searching Tuesday for six people, including British tech magnate Mike Lynch, believed trapped some 50 meters (164 feet) underwater in the hull of a superyacht that sank in a storm off Sicily.
Emergency services at the scene of the search for a missing boat, in Porticello, southern Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. PORTICELLO, Sicily — Police divers resumed searching Tuesday for six people, including British tech magnate Mike Lynch, believed trapped some 50 meters underwater in the hull of a superyacht that sank in a storm off Sicily.
The Bayesian, a 56-meter British-flagged luxury yacht, had been moored about a half-mile off Ponticello when a storm rolled in around 4 a.m. Monday. Civil protection officials said they believed the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout, which had passed through the area.
The statement referred to the six as “missing.” Fire rescue officials have said the six will be considered missing until they are located in the wreckage. The sailing vacation appeared to be something of a celebration after Lynch's acquittal, since fellow passengers included some of the people who had stood by Lynch throughout the ordeal. Among those unaccounted for, according to the civil protection agency, were one of Lynch’s U.S. lawyers, Christopher Morvillo of Clifford Chance, and Morvillo’s wife.
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