Final Body Recovered From Sunken Superyacht

Billionaire Mike Lynch's teen daughter was only person still unaccounted for
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Aug 23, 2024 8:32 AM CDT
Final Body Recovered From Sunken Superyacht
Italian firefighter divers work at the site of the shipwreck in Porticello, Sicily, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024.   (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Italian rescuers have brought ashore the body of the final missing person who was on a superyacht that sunk off the coast of Sicily. The woman's body was detected on Friday, the Coast Guard said. She has not been officially identified, but Hannah Lynch, the 18-year-old daughter of British tech magnate Mike Lynch, was the only person still unaccounted for. The Lynch family was aboard the Bayesian, a 184-foot British-flagged yacht, when it went down in a storm early Monday, the AP reports.

Civil protection officials said they believe the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout, and sank quickly. Mike Lynch's body was among four recovered on Thursday. He had been celebrating his recent acquittal on fraud charges with his family and the people who had defended him at trial in the United States. His wife Angela Bacares was among the 15 survivors. Divers struggled to find the six bodies trapped in the yacht's hull 164 feet underwater. (The CEO of Italian ship manufacturer Perini says the yacht should have been "unsinkable.")

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