This Wednesday the emergency teams Italians They managed to find 5 bodies on the sunken yacht in Sicily (South), now they continue with the search for the last missing person from the shipwreck.
In the afternoon, they managed to extract four bodies from the sailboat, transporting them in bags to the nearby port of Porticello, while the authorities say they have managed to locate a fifth body inside the boat, which is 50 meters deep on the Sicilian seabed.
The British-flagged yacht ‘Bayesian’ sank on Monday night off the coast of Porticello during a strong storm, with 22 people on board, 12 passengers and 10 crew members.
British IT magnate Mike Lynch was enjoying a holiday with some family and friends.
Fifteen people, including Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, managed to survive at sea, while the death of the cook, Recaldo Thomas, a Canadian born on the island of Antigua, was confirmed.
By then, the six missing were Lynch and her 18-year-old daughter, Hannah; Morgan Stanley International bank president Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy; and the tycoon’s lawyer, Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda.
It should be noted that the rescue efforts were complicated by the depth at which the yacht was found and by the position in which it was left after its sudden sinking.
Despite this situation, the Italian firefighters’ divers managed to open an access route a day later, but the process was slow as they only had a 12-minute autonomy for each dive. This forced them to reinforce the operation with an underwater robot.
Five bodies found from sunken yacht in Sicily
This decision paid off and on Wednesday five of the six missing people were found in the yacht’s flooded rooms, among furniture and mattresses, although only four bodies have been taken to land and subsequently to the morgue for identification.
The search continues for the recovery of the bodies of businessman Lynch, his daughter, Bloomer and Morvillo, although the authorities prefer to remain silent for the moment and wait for the relatives and some survivors of the tragedy to identify them.
In this regard, it is stated that there are six fatalities, while the sixth missing person is being searched for.
While the rescue operation continues, the Termini-Imerese Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation to clarify the disaster and today questioned the captain of the sailboat, James Catfield, a 51-year-old New Zealander and one of the survivors, for more than two hours in a hotel in the area.
(With information from EFE)
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2024-08-22 11:56:36