His wife, Angela Bacares, was also on the yacht and is among the 15 people rescued by the Italian Coast Guard, which also found a lifeless body, the police said. BBC.
Lynch, 59, studied Physics, Mathematics and Biochemistry at Cambridge University; he launched several companies software of recognition and founded the technology company Autonomy in 1996, so He is often nicknamed the “British Bill Gates” and is considered one of the entrepreneurs tech most influential in the United Kingdom.
In 2011, Lynch sold his company to computer giant Hewlett Packard (HP) for US$11 billion.which generated profits of US$800 million and a legal dispute of more than 13 years, from which he was acquitted last June.
HP said it had found “serious accounting irregularities” at Autonomy and accused Lynch of 17 charges – later reduced to 15 – of “fraud and conspiracy.” If found guilty, he faced up to 25 years in prison in the United States and remained under house arrest in San Francisco for more than a year awaiting trial, after being extradited from the United Kingdom in May 2023.
In an interview with the British newspaper The Times At the end of July, Lynch said that, had he been convicted, given his age and a serious lung disease, he believed he would die in an American prison: “I have several medical conditions that would have made my survival difficult.”
The British tycoon was among 22 passengers aboard the British-flagged sailing ship “Bayesian”, anchored off the Sicilian port of Porticello, when, according to witnesses, a strong tornado in the area broke the main mast, causing the boat to become unbalanced, capsize and sink.
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Divers are searching the hull of the sunken ship, which lies at a depth of 49 metres, and Coast Guard patrol boats and helicopters are searching for the missing in the area, while more divers are arriving from Naples and Rome.
Italian divers open access to sunken yacht off Sicily
On Tuesday, August 20, Italian divers managed to open an access route to the sunken sailboat off the coast of Sicily (south) to search inside for the six people missing after its shipwreck, including British tycoon Mike Lynch.
The opening of access to the British ship, sunk in the middle of a storm at a depth of fifty metres off the town of Porticello, was possible after complex operations by submariners, according to public television. RAI.
The Italian Coast Guard, which is involved in the operation, said in a statement that although the operation “continues without pause,” the divers are currently “evaluating whether it is feasible to safely enter” the vessel.
The depth at which the remains are found and the position in which they were left after the shipwreck complicate the search.
The coastguard also confirmed that “for now there are no traces of contamination” from the yacht’s fuel.
At the time of the tragedy, the sailboat was carrying 22 people on board, 10 crew members and 12 passengers, and fifteen of them were able to save their lives, including a one-year-old girl, Sophie, and her mother Charlotte Golunski, aged 35.
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The only confirmed fatality so far is a crew member, French chef Ricardo Tomas.
The six missing are computer magnate Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah; Morgan Stanley International bank president Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Anne Elizabeth Judith Bloomer; Lynch attorney Chris Morvillo and his wife Nada.
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