The specialized divers, who on Wednesday Four bodies were recovered among the remains of the yacht “Bayesian“, which sank on Monday at a depth of 50 metres near Palermothey found a Fifth body on Thursday morningAFP journalists confirmed.
The Italian press claimed that it was Lynchwithout specifying its sources. The coastguard later assured AFP that they had already removed the bodies of all the male victimsthus confirming the death of the tycoon.
Among the remains of the shipwreck there remains only the body of a woman, the sixth of the people who were reported missing, they said.
Lynch, 59, a billionaire known as the “British Bill Gates“He celebrated aboard the luxurious yacht with friends, collaborators and lawyers his acquittal in June in a trial for fraud in USA which could have cost him many years in prison.
The ship sank in a matter of minutes at about 700 metros from the port of Porticello, after the passage of a tornado on Monday in the morning.
15 people were rescued, including six passengersincluding a woman and her one year old daughterand one crew member was found dead.
Six people were reported missing on Wednesday: Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah, Jonathan Bloomer -president of Morgan Stanley International, a subsidiary of the American bank- and his wife, and Chris Morvillo -lawyer who defended Mike Lynch in his trial in the United States- and his wife.
“A trap”
Initial witnesses reported that the yacht’s towering 75-metre mast had insidebut new information indicated on Wednesday that It may not have been like that.
The speed at which sank the ship and the fact that the other boats around it were not affected They raise questions, in particular about whether the ballasted keel, which acts as a counterweight to the imposing mast, was lowered or raised at the time of the storm.
The boss of The Italian Sea Group, owner of the shipyard Perini Ships who built the “Bayesian,” pointed to human error.
“Everything that happened points to a long series of errors. The passengers They should not have been in the cabins“The ship should not have been anchored,” Giovanni Costantino said in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on Thursday.
“A Perini boat withstood Hurricane Katrina, a Category 5 hurricane” that devastated the United States in 2005, he said. “Do you think it can’t withstand a tornado here?”
“It is customary for a guard to be on deck when the ship is anchored, and if he was there, he could not have missed the storm,” the shipowner stressed.
“Instead, (this yacht) took on water while the guests were still in their cabins. A 40-degree angle is enough for people in a cabin to find themselves with the door on top of them – can you imagine a 60- or 70-year-old man climbing out?” he said.
“They fell into a trap, these poor people ended up like mice,” said Costantino.
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