Bodies recovered after Sicily yacht disaster

Rescue teams are searching for one person still missing after one of the world’s largest sailing superyachts was struck by a violent storm and sank off the coast of Sicily on August 19

BAYESIAN:
Sailing yacht had 10 crew and 12 guests on board – 15 were rescued

BODIES RECOVERED
1. British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch (above left)
2. Chairman of Morgan Stanley International Jonathan Bloomer (above right)
3. Bloomer’s wife Judy
4. Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo
5. Morvillo’s wife Neda
6. Yacht’s chef Ricardo Thomas
Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah, still unaccounted for

Aug 19, 05:00 local time: British-flagged yacht Bayesian capsizes  in high winds, 700m off port of Porticello

6 miles
10km
Palermo
Porticello
SICILY
60 miles
100km
Rome
Naples
SICILY
ITALY

Wreck at around 50 metres below sea surface
Mast height 72 metres – world’s tallest aluminium mast
56m
Builder Perini Navi
Launched Feb 2008
Top speed 15.6kn

Sources: Reuters, BBC, FT, Perini Navi
Pictures: Royal Society, Linkedin
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