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Divers recover remains of tech mogul Mike Lynch’s family superyacht that capsized off Sicily
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Divers recover remains of tech mogul Mike Lynch’s family superyacht that capsized off Sicily

Six people missing after yacht sinks in Italy


Six people missing after yacht sinks off Italian coast

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Divers search the wreck of a superyacht owned by the family of a British tech mogul who sank on Monday off the coast of Sicily in southern Italy were working Wednesday to recover the remains of most of the six people missing after the disaster, Sicily’s civil protection agency confirmed to CBS News. Two bodies were brought ashore in Porticello, near Palermo, and two more were being brought ashore.

The British newspaper Telegraph reported that the bodies of Mike Lynch, the technology entrepreneurand his 18-year-old daughter were among the remains recovered Wednesday, but the civil defense chief would not confirm that report to CBS News.

Six people, including Lynch and his daughter, were missing after the vessel sank in a violent storm early Monday morning. One man, the chef of the Bayesian superyacht, was found dead shortly after the boat capsized.

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The Italian Coast Guard (Guardia Costiera) brings a body ashore in Porticello, near Palermo, Sicily, Italy, on August 21, 2024, two days after the British-flagged luxury superyacht Bayesian, owned by the wife of British tech mogul Mike Lynch, sank during a storm.

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Fifteen passengers and crew members managed to escape, including Lynch’s wife, who owned the ship.

In addition to Lynch and his daughter Hannah, the technology mogul’s American lawyer, Chris Morvillo, a former deputy district attorney in New York, his wife Neda, and British banker Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, were also missing.

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The 184-foot sailing yacht Bayesian is seen in an undated archive photo from SuperYacht Times.

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Lynch was acquitted in the United States in June of fraud charges that would have brought him decades in prison. Lynch’s co-defendant in that fraud trial, who was also acquitted, died on Saturday after being hit by a car while jogging in England.

This developing story will be updated.

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