The tragedy of the luxury yacht that sank in Sicily saw another devastating episode on Wednesday when rescuers found the bodies of four missing people. The story has remained the most important news worldwide.
Five Bodies Found on Yacht in Sicily
Italian emergency teams managed to extract four bodies from the yacht that sank in Sicily on Wednesday and locate a fifth, while they continue the search for the last missing person and the identification of the bodies.
During the afternoon they managed to remove four bodies from the yacht, transporting them in bags to the nearby port of Porticello, while the authorities say that a fifth body has been located inside the ship, which is 50 metres deep.
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The British-flagged yacht ‘Bayesian’ sank on Monday night off the coast of the town of Porticello in heavy rain, when there were 22 people aboard, 12 passengers and 10 crew members.
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British IT magnate Mike Lynch was on holiday with some family and friends. Fifteen people managed to save their lives at sea, including Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, while the death of the cook, Recaldo Thomas, a Canadian born on the island of Antigua, was soon confirmed.
Sicilian Yacht Tragedy
The authorities confirmed that six people were missing: Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah; the president of Morgan Stanley International, Jonathan Bloomer, and his wife Judy; and the tycoon’s lawyer, Chris Morvillo, and his wife Neda.
The recovery 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. The Italian firefighters’ divers managed to open an access route a day later, but they were proceeding slowly, having only twelve minutes of autonomy in each dive. For this reason, they decided to reinforce the operation with an underwater robot.
These efforts have allowed five of the six missing people to be found on Wednesday in the flooded rooms of the yacht, among furniture and mattresses, although only four bodies have been taken to land and subsequently to the morgue for identification.
The media reports that the bodies of businessman Lynch, his daughter, Bloomer and Morvillo are involved, although the authorities prefer to remain silent for the moment and wait for the relatives, some of whom are survivors of the tragedy, to identify them.
The provisional death toll from the sinking thus rises to six, while the search for the sixth missing person is ongoing. Meanwhile, the Termini-Imerese Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation to clarify the disaster and today questioned the captain of the luxury yacht, James Catfield, a 51-year-old New Zealander and one of the survivors, for more than two hours in a hotel in the area.
This article was originally originally written in Spanish by Miguel Fernández in Cultura Colectiva News.
