The bodies of UK Tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and four of his guests on the superyacht Bayesian have been recovered, three days after it sank off of the coast of Sicily, according to Italian officials, Financial Times reported.
The officials said the bodies of Christopher Morvillo of the law firm Clifford Chance and Johnathan Bloomer, chair of insurance group Hiscox and Morgan Stanley International, alongside their wives, Neda Morvillo and Judy Bloomer, have been retrieved.
Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter, Hannah is still missing, after Bayesian went down in an intense storm near Palermo on Monday.
The five bodies were pulled from the sunken yacht on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning. The body of Recaldo Thomas, the boat’s chief, had been retrieved earlier in the week.
No formal identification of the bodies has been announced by the local authorities. The Italian public prosecutor is charged with making the official determination of the deaths.
According to Financial Times, the trip on Bayesian had been planned as a celebration Lynch’s recent acquittal on US fraud charges, after a 12-year legal battle over the $11bn sale of his software group Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard.
Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, was one of 15 survivors rescued in the early hours of Monday morning.
Reuters reported the body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch was retrieved on Thursday from the wreck of his family yacht that sank this week off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm, a senior Italian official said.
Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah is still unaccounted for, interior ministry official Massimo Mariani told Reuters after being briefed by the emergency services.
The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre-long (184-foot) superyacht carrying 22 passengers and crew, was anchored off the port of Porticello, near Palermo, when it disappeared beneath the waves in minutes after bad weather struck early Monday.
A judicial investigation has been opened into the disaster, which has baffled naval marine experts, who say a boat like the Bayesian, built by Italian high-end yacht manufacturer Perini, should have withstood the storm.
CNBC reported the body of British Technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch, 59, has been retrieved from the wreckage of a yacht that sank off he coast of Sicily, a source familiar with the matter told CNBC on Thursday, confirming earlier reporting by Sky News.
Later on Thursday, it emerged that Morgan Stanley International Chair Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy were also found dead in the yacht wreckage. Bloomer is also the chair of the insurance firm Hiscox.
In my opinion, it is unclear to me exactly what happened. The only thing I’m certain of is that many people are going to be grieving for their lost loved ones.