Final Body Found In Wreckage Of Luxury Yacht Off Coast Of Sicily

 ROME, Aug 23 (Bernama-PA Media/dpa) - A body believed to be that of British tech magnate Mike Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter has been located in the wreckage of a luxury yacht off the coast of Sicily, meaning all missing passengers have now been found, the German news agency (dpa) reported.

The Italian Coastguard said the sixth and final missing person had been located on the sunken Bayesian on Friday.

Vincenzo Zagarola, of the Italian Coastguard, said the search for Hannah has not been “easy or quick”, comparing the sunken yacht to an “18-storey building full of water”.

Lynch, his daughter Hannah, Morgan Stanley International Bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer, his wife Judy Bloomer, Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda Morvillo, were lost when the yacht sank at around 5 am on Monday.

Five bodies have already been brought to shore in the small fishing village of Porticello, around 18 kilometres from the Sicilian capital of Palermo.

Of the 22 passengers and crew on board, 15 – including Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares – were rescued after escaping onto a lifeboat.

The body of Canadian-Antiguan national Recaldo Thomas, who was working as a chef on the superyacht, was recovered at the scene of the sinking on Monday.

The boat trip was a celebration of Lynch’s acquittal in a fraud case in the US.

-- BERNAMA-PA MEDIA/dpa