By Giselda Vagnoni
PALERMO, Sicily (Reuters) -Divers searched the wreck of a high-end luxuryyacht off Sicily’s coast on Tuesday to discover 6 missingouton individuals, consistingof British tech businessowner Mike Lynch and his child, following an extreme storm that sank the vessel on Monday.
The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre-long (184-ft) superyacht, was bring 22 individuals and anchored off the port of Porticello when it was struck by the strong, pre-dawn storm.
Fifteen individuals gotaway before it capsized and the body of one individual who passedaway was promptly recuperated. That left 6 travelers unaccounted for – Lynch and his 18-year-old child Hannah; Judy and Jonathan Bloomer, a non-executive chair of Morgan Stanley International; and Clifford Chance legalrepresentative Chris Morvillo and his partner, Neda Morvillo.
“The worry is that the bodies got caught inside the vessel,” stated Salvatore Cocina, head of civil defense in Sicily.
The boat was lying at a depth of 49 metres (160 feet), offering scubadivers just 8-10 minutes at the wreck website before they had to resurface. Entering the boat was likewise showing tough, stated the fire brigade, which is leading the search operation.
“Inside the cruising ship the areas are extremely restricted, and if you hit an barrier it is extremely madecomplex to relocation forward, simply as it is extremely challenging to discover option paths,” stated fire spokesperson Luca Cari.
Fire department scubadiver Marco Tilotta informed pressreporters the vessel appeared to be undamaged and was lying on its right side. Divers had not established whether the 72-metre-long mast had snapped someplace along its length throughout the tempest.
Karsten Borner, the skipper of a boat that hadactually been moored togetherwith the Bayesian, stated the luxuryyacht turned on its side quickly af