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Search Resumes for British Mogul and 5 Others After Yacht Sinks Off Sicily

The body of the vessel’s cook was recovered while divers searched the hull of the Bayesian for passengers, including the tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch.

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By Elisabetta Povoledo

Deep-sea divers with Italy’s firefighter corps resumed their search on Tuesday for six missing passengers — including a British software mogul and his daughter — of a yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily the previous day.

Twenty-two people were on board the 180-foot British-flagged sailing yacht, the Bayesian, which was anchored near the port of Porticello, when it was hit by what witnesses described as a waterspout, a small tornado on water, during a sudden and violent storm.

Fifteen people who managed to get to a raft were rescued by the captain of a nearby sailing cruise ship. The body of the yacht’s cook, identified by news outlets as Recaldo Thomas, a Canadian Antiguan, was recovered on Monday. But several people are still unaccounted for, according to Salvatore Cocina, an official with Sicily’s civil protection agency.

Those still missing are Mike Lynch, a British technology entrepreneur; his daughter Hannah; Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International; his wife, Judy Bloomer; Christopher J. Morvillo, a lawyer at Clifford Chance; and his wife, Neda Morvillo.

Mr. Lynch was acquitted of fraud in a U.S. trial in June, ending a high-profile, decadelong legal battle against accusations that he had defrauded Hewlett-Packard when he sold his company, Autonomy, to Hewlett for $11 billion.

Mr. Lynch and the others went missing days after Mr. Lynch’s co-defendant at the fraud trial, Stephen Chamberlain, a former vice president of finance at Autonomy, was fatally struck by a car on Saturday while out for a run, his lawyer, Gary S. Lincenberg, said in a statement.

Prosecutors in the Italian city of Termini Imerese, east of where the yacht sank, are opening a formal investigation into the yacht’s sinking. Reached by telephone, the chief prosecutor declined to comment.

The search for the missing passengers began on Monday but was suspended late that night as crews found themselves limited to the bridge deck and items like furnishings “obstructing passage,” the firefighters’ corps wrote on social media .

When divers resumed the search on Tuesday, ships trawled the waters near the site, the corps said in a statement. The Italian Coast Guard also said in a statement that search operations were “continuing unabated,” with the deployment of helicopters. There was no evidence that gasoline was leaking from the yacht, the Coast Guard said.

The yacht was lying on its right side in about 165 feet of water, meaning that divers, working in pairs, could stay underwater for only about 12 minutes at a time, said Luca Cari, a spokesman for the firefighters’ corps.

Divers were seeking a safe point of access to the vessel’s cabins. “Obviously, everything fell and the space is very tight,” Mr. Cari said, adding that the divers were having to remove obstacles, like furnishings and electrical wiring, that were “completely blocking passages.”

The firefighters’ corps said in a statement that it was impossible to verify whether people were inside the hull.

Mr. Cari said that several divers had been part of the search-and-rescue operations when the Costa Concordia, a cruise liner, capsized off the Tuscan island of Giglio in 2012, killing 32 people. It is considered one of the worst maritime disasters in modern Italian history.

“It’s like the Costa Concordia, but much smaller,” Mr. Cari said in a telephone interview, comparing the search operations. “In the Costa Concordia, we came across many obstacles but we somehow were able to overcome them. Here, the obstacles block the passages and have to be removed.” He added, “This makes it more difficult.”

Crews were also trying to raise the yacht, which experts will examine to try to determine why it sank. Until then, experts can only hypothesize what happened.

Karsten Borner, the captain of a ship, the Sir Robert Baden Powell, which picked up the Bayesian’s 15 survivors, said in an interview that when the wind picked up around 4 a.m. Monday, the Bayesian was about 490 feet behind his vessel. Once the wind wound down, he said, he could not see the yacht anymore.

“My theory was that she was capsized first and then went down over the stern,” Mr. Borner said.

Dario Boote, a ship structures and naval architecture professor at the University of Genoa, said: “Now I imagine that a whole series of lawsuits will be triggered, obviously to ascertain whether there is any responsibility, as always happens very unpleasantly in these situations.” He said, however, that in this case, responsibility might be hard to determine. “Clearly, only once the wreck is raised will we know more,” he added.

Several fishermen told Italian news outlets that they had witnessed a waterspout. Peter Inness, a meteorologist at the University of Reading, said they were relatively common in the Mediterranean, though their occurrence and intensity are unpredictable.

“Until one actually forms, you can’t start telling people where it is,” Mr. Inness said, or “how to get out of the way.”

The inclement weather — with lightning intermittently streaking through the sky — made it hard to know exactly why the yacht sank. Col. Attilio Di Diodato, director of the Italian Air Force’s Center for Aerospace Meteorology and Climatology, said the agency had registered intense lightning activity and strong gusts of wind in the area at the time the boat sank.

The Bayesian had one of the tallest aluminum masts in the world, according to its builder, Perini Navi. “Having a tall aluminum mast would not make it the safest port to be in case of a storm,” said Andrea Ratti, associate professor of nautical design and architecture technology the Politecnico di Milano. The type of intensity unleashed by a violent lightning storm “could have created a significant shock wave,” he added.

He, too, cautioned that “a lot of questions will remain until we have other elements at our disposal.”

Modern yachts are built to withstand meteorological events of reasonable intensity, and all international naval registers suggest that new ships be designed for higher waves and more frequent and extreme weather events.

But “this seems a case of an unreasonable extreme event,” said Emilio Fortunato Campana, an expert in Naval Hydrodynamics at Italy’s National Research Council. “In that case, no ship is 100 percent safe,” he added. “I think the Titanic showed that nothing is unsinkable.”

Elisabetta Povoledo is a reporter based in Rome, covering Italy, the Vatican and the culture of the region. She has been a journalist for 35 years. More about Elisabetta Povoledo

Sicily Yacht Sinking: 4 Bodies Recovered From the Wreckage By Divers

Two days after a superyacht was sunk by a storm off the coast of sicily, four bodies have been recovered from the wreckage. .

There’s been a heartbreaking update in the Sicily yacht tragedy. 

After a superyacht sank off the coast of Palermo, Italy, during a violent storm Aug. 19, divers have discovered four bodies among the ship’s wreckage, a source familiar with the rescue operations told NBC News . 

The identities of the recovered bodies have not yet been determined, but the discovery comes shortly after the names of the six missing passengers were shared . 

British tech mogul Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah , Morgan Stanley International Chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife, and Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife have yet to be accounted for, the Director of Sicily’s Civil Protection Agency Salvatore Cocina told NBC News. 

Per the outlet, Morvillo and Bloomer’s employers later identified their missing wives as Judy Bloomer and Neda Morvillo .

It is believed the passengers were located in the ship’s hull, which remains over 150 feet underwater. Divers continue to search among the wreckage, but the depth, along with other obstructions and narrow passageways have made it an ordeal.  

While the aforementioned six people remain unaccounted for, Lynch’s wife Angela Bacares , the ship’s cook Ricardo Thomas as well as nine other crew members and two other passengers were recovered from the shipwreck . Eight of those rescued were brought to a hospital, while the rest were brought to a nearby hotel. Despite being rescued, Thomas later died, NBC News reported. 

Among the other extricated passengers, Charlotte Golunski Emsley recounted her and husband James Emsley ’s saga of survival, along with their 12-month-old Sophie after they were woken up by the storm—which could have included a waterborne tornado known as a waterspout, meteorologists told NBC News.

Golunski described the family’s search for a lifeboat, which later safely stowed themselves and 11 other passengers, as “the end of the world.”

“It was all dark,” she recalled to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica , per the BBC . “In the water I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I screamed for help but all I could hear around me was the screams of others.”

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Dramatic video shows 130ft superyacht sinking off Italy coast after being battered in storm

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Dramatic footage has captured the moment a 40-metre superyacht sank into the Mediterranean sea after being battered in a storm.

The 40-metre-long luxury vessel was sailing from Gallipoli to Milazzo overnight on Saturday when it got into trouble around 15km from Italy’s Catanzaro Marina.

Footage shows the yacht, named My Saga, rapidly disappearing beneath waves, as lifeboats appear to float beside it.

The captain sent out a distress call to the Port Authority of Crotone, with officials told the yacht was taking on a significant amount of water from the stern.

The Italian coastguard dispatched two patrol vessels and rescued all four passengers and five crew members on board.

A tugboat sent out at dawn was unable to save the superyacht from sinking because of worsening weather conditions, the Super Yacht Times reports. The Saga finally sank at around 1pm on Sunday.

The outlet reports the yacht, which was built in Monaco back in 2007, was flying under the Cayman Islands flag with an all-Italian crew when it sunk.

An investigation has been launched into the cause.

It comes after a £6 million superyacht sunk after it went up in flames in the UK on the Torquay harbourside.

The 85ft vessel was consumed by fire , with thick black smoking billowing into the sky.

The yacht reportedly drifted out into the harbour after the fire burnt through ropes securing it to the pier, but the vessel was later secured by the fire service.

A fire service statement revealed that the vessel contained approximately 8000 litres of diesel fuel.

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En Sicile, les plongeurs ont récupéré le corps de Mike Lynch dans l’épave du superyacht

Les plongeurs ont récupéré jeudi matin le corps du dernier homme porté disparu à la suite du naufrage lundi, en Sicile, du superyacht du magnat britannique de la tech Mike Lynch.

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Les plongeurs ont récupéré jeudi le corps du magnat britannique de la tech Mike Lynch dans l'épave du yacht qui a fait naufrage lundi en Sicile, et poursuivaient les recherches pour retrouver sa fille.

Au total, trois hommes et trois femmes étaient portés disparus depuis lundi matin et le naufrage du Bayesian, au large de l'île italienne. Il ne reste plus désormais dans l'épave que le corps d'une femme, cinq dépouilles ayant été remontées depuis mercredi, selon les gardes-côtes.

Ces cinq dépouilles portent le bilan provisoire à six morts, un membre de l'équipage ayant été retrouvé décédé lundi.

Une source proche de l'enquête avait indiqué que les corps de Mike Lynch et de sa fille de 18 ans, Hannah, ne faisaient pas partie des quatre premiers récupérés mercredi. La dernière victime dans l'épave, une femme, devrait donc être Hannah.

Une source proche de l'enquête avait indiqué que les corps de Mike Lynch et de sa fille Hannah ne faisaient pas partie des quatre premiers récupérés . La dernière victime dans l'épave, une femme, devrait donc être Hannah.

Mike Lynch, un richissime homme d'affaires surnommé le Bill Gates britannique , fêtait avec ses amis, collaborateurs et avocats son acquittement en juin dans un procès pour fraude aux États-Unis qui aurait pu lui coûter de longues années de prison.

Mike Lynch, magnat britannique de la technologie comparé à Bill Gates, manquait à l'appel à la suite du naufrage de son supervoilier, lundi. (Photo d'archives)

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Outre le milliardaire et sa fille, les quatre autres personnes qui manquaient à l'appel depuis lundi étaient Jonathan Bloomer, le président du conseil d'administration de Morgan Stanley International (une division de la banque américaine) et de l'assureur Hiscox, ainsi que son épouse, et Chris Morvillo, un avocat qui a défendu Mike Lynch dans son procès aux États-Unis, avec son épouse.

Jonathan Bloomer et sa femme Judy étaient des personnes incroyables et une source d'inspiration pour beaucoup, mais avant tout, ils se concentraient sur leur famille et l'aimaient , a déclaré jeudi leur famille dans un communiqué.

Ensemble pendant cinq décennies, notre seul réconfort est qu'ils sont toujours ensemble aujourd'hui , a conclu la famille.

Un naufrage qui soulève des questions

Le navire a sombré en quelques minutes lundi à l'aube après le passage d'une tornade. Quinze personnes ont été sauvées, dont six passagers.

Jeudi, un caisson hyperbare, pour la décompression, a été installé dans le port.

Je pense que le caisson hyperbare a été mis en place par précaution, car les plongeurs qui fouillent le yacht descendent à une grande profondeur , a déclaré à l' AFP Matthew Schanck, du Conseil de recherche et de sauvetage maritime.

Les premiers témoins avaient raconté que le mât de 75 mètres s'était rompu, mais les informations disponibles mercredi semblaient indiquer que ce n'est pas le cas.

La vitesse à laquelle le yacht a coulé et le fait que les autres bateaux autour de lui n'ont pas été touchés soulèvent des questions, notamment celle de savoir si la quille lestée, qui fait contrepoids à l'imposant mât, était abaissée ou relevée au moment de la tempête.

Une longue série d'erreurs

Le patron du groupe naval The Italian Sea Group , propriétaire du chantier naval Perini Navi qui a construit le Bayesian, ne décolère pas et pointe du doigt l'erreur humaine.

Tout ce qui s'est passé révèle une longue série d'erreurs. Les passagers ne devaient pas être dans les cabines, le navire ne devait pas être à l'ancre , déclare Giovanni Costantino dans une entrevue jeudi au Corriere della Sera . Regardez, un navire Perini a résisté à l'ouragan Katrina, de catégorie 5 qui a dévasté les États-Unis en 2005, dit-il.

Est-ce qu'il a l'air de ne pas pouvoir résister à une trombe d'air locale? Il est d'usage, lorsque le navire est à l'ancre, d'avoir un garde sur le pont et, s'il était là, il n'aurait pas pu ne pas voir la tempête arriver. Une citation de Giovanni Costantino, patron du groupe naval The Italian Sea Group

Au lieu de cela, il [le yacht, NDLR ] a pris l'eau alors que les invités étaient encore dans leurs cabines. Un angle de 40 degrés suffit pour que ceux qui se trouvent dans une cabine se retrouvent avec la porte au-dessus d'eux : pouvez-vous imaginer un homme de 60 à 70 ans grimper pour sortir? s'interroge le patron du constructeur naval.

Ils sont tombés dans un piège, ces pauvres gens ont fini comme des souris , a conclu M. Costantino.

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Body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch recovered from sunken superyacht as search enters final stages

PORTICELLO, Italy — The body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch was recovered from the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily , a source familiar with the matter told CNBC on Thursday.

The source said rescuers were still searching for Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter, Hannah, the l ast p er son missing from the luxury boat , which went down in what authorities said was a freak storm early Monday.

A massive search effort was launched, and four bodies were recovered from the 180-foot Bayesian on Wednesday after an operation hampered by the depth to which the wreck had sunk and the debris that blocked divers’ path through its narrow passages.

Salvatore Cocina, head of Sicily’s civil protection agency, confirmed to NBC News on Thursday morning that a fifth body had been recovered. And hours later, CNBC reported that the body of Lynch, regularly described in U.K. media as “Britain’s Bill Gates,” was among them.

The U.K.'s Royal Academy of Engineering said Thursday morning that it was “deeply saddened to learn of the death of Mike Lynch,” who is one of its fellows. “Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this time,” the academy said in a statement on X .

The others missing were Lynch's associates, who had successfully defended him in a blockbuster U.S. fraud trial earlier this summer: Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International and the British insurance firm Hiscox, and his wife, Judy; and a well-known New York City defense attorney, Christopher Morvillo, and his wife, Neda.

The body of Recaldo Thomas, a Canadian Antiguan national who was the ship’s cook, was recovered shortly after the accident Monday. 

Fifteen of the 22 people onboard survived.

Waves gently crashed against the rocks of Porticello, a port near the Italian island’s main city, Palermo, with the sea calm as rescuers brought ashore green body bags Wednesday — a stark contrast to just three days ago, when officials believe the yacht was hit by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout.

The vessel was anchored about a half-mile offshore when it sank, leaving divers to search its hull on the seabed 164 feet underwater.

The dock has swarmed for days with journalists, photographers and curious onlookers taking photos with their smartphones as rescue teams traveled to and from the site of the wreck.

Claudio Lavanga reported from Porticello and Yuliya Talmazan from London.

Claudio Lavanga is Rome-based foreign correspondent for NBC News.

Yuliya Talmazan is a reporter for NBC News Digital, based in London.

Mike Lynch: Everything we know more than 24 hours after yacht sinks leaving tech tycoon missing

The Cambridge University graduate was cleared of charges in a 13-year fraud case in June this year

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Cambridge University graduate and technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch is still missing more than 30 hours on from the sinking of a luxury yacht off the coast of Sicily. The superyacht capsized at around 5am local time after it was battered by strong storms.

Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah are among six tourists on board that remained missing as the search resumed on Tuesday morning (August 20). Angela Bacares, Mike Lynch's wife, was one of 15 people rescued from the yacht, and she is now recovering from injuries. Read live updates from the search here.

One body, reportedly belonging to the ship’s chef, was recovered at the scene. The yacht was carrying ten crew members and 12 passengers.

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Mr Lynch founded software giant Autonomy in 1996. After an $11 billion (£8.64 billion) sale of the company to Hewlett Packard, he was accused of fraud.

As part of a 13-year legal saga, the tycoon spent 13 months under house arrest, before being cleared of all charges in June this year. His co-defendant in the case, Stephen Chamberlain, died after being hit by a car while out running in Cambridgeshire on Saturday.

The yacht was moored around half a mile off the coast of Porticello when it sank. Civil protection officials believe it was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout.

It is now on the seabed, 50 metres underwater. Italy’s fire brigade Vigili del Fuoco said searches of the wreck on Monday were unsuccessful because furniture was in the way of passages.

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According to BBC reports, Morgan Stanley International Bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer and Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo are among those missing. The Financial Times reported that Mr Bloomer appeared as a defence witness for Mr Lynch.

Ayla Ronald, a New Zealand national working at Clifford Chance, was rescued. Her father told the Telegraph that she had been invited on the yacht as a result of her help in Mr Lynch’s recent court case.

Four of those who remain missing are British and two are American. The Il Giornale di Sicilia newspaper reported that the vessel had mostly British passengers on board, but also people from New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Ireland and British-French citizens.

British tourist Charlotte Emsley, who survived, reported to la Repubblica that she held her one-year-old daughter afloat with "all her strength" to ensure she did not drown.

A spokesman for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said on Monday: “We are in contact with the local authorities following an incident in Sicily, and stand ready to provide consular support to British nationals affected.”

The Marine Accident Investigation Branch said four of its inspectors were being deployed to Palermo.

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WATCH: Superyacht Capsizes and Sinks Off the Coast of Southern Italy in Shocking Video

It is unknown what caused the 40-meter-long vessel called "My Saga" to go under

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A 40-meter-long (131-foot) superyacht capsized nine miles off the coast of Catanzaro, Italy on Saturday.

Shocking footage released by the Italian coast guard shows the vessel, named My Saga, sinking stern-first near the Catanzaro Marina.

According to the BBC , "the Italian coast guard rescued all nine people on board – four passengers and five crew. The outlet reported the ship was heading from Gallipoli to Milazzo.

An investigation of the incident is ongoing and it is still unclear what caused the yacht to sink.

In the video tweeted by the Italian coast guard, the yacht is seen floating on its side amid rough waters before its rear starts dipping into the Ionian Sea.

The footage cuts to the vessel then halfway submerged in the water before it quickly vanishes beneath the surface.

Along with the video, the coast guard wrote a caption. Translated from Italian it reads, "In recent days, the #GuardiaCostiera of #Crotone coordinated rescue operations for passengers and crew of a 40m yacht, which sank 9 miles off the coast of #CatanzaroMarina. Administrative investigation was launched to identify the causes."

My Saga was designed by Tim Heywood and Jean-Marc Achy. It was equipped "with a teak deck, a steel hull, and aluminum superstructure," according to the London-based luxury lifestyle publisher, BOAT International .

The superyacht boasted six cabins that could accommodate up to 12 guests and eight crew members.

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M/Y My Saga sank around 1 p.m. on August 22 in the Gulf of Squillace, about nine nautical miles from the coast of Catanzaro Marina, according to local media Il Messaggero . The yacht was sailing from Gallipoli to Milazzo, and she ended up taking on water. There were no reported injuries.

In the early morning hours of August 20, the Port Authority of Crotone was notified that My Saga was taking on water from the stern. A Romanian patrol boat and a patrol boat from Crotone, Italy, were sent to the scene, and four guests and a crewmember were evacuated and taken to the port of Catanzaro Marina.

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At dawn, tugboat Alessandro Secondo arrived and began towing the yacht toward Crotone with four crewmembers, including the captain, on board the tug. However, due to the weather conditions and the vessel’s heavy listing, the salvage efforts became more difficult and then impractical, the Guardia Costiera reports. Unfortunately, the water invaded the hull, causing My Saga to sink.

An investigation into the cause of the incident is being conducted by the Catanzara Coast Guard Command.

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Ce que l’on sait du naufrage du super-voilier « Bayesian » dans les eaux siciliennes

Le voilier stationnait au large du port de Porticello lorsqu’il a été touché par une trombe marine. Une personne est morte et six étaient encore portées disparues, mardi soir, dont l’entrepreneur britannique Mike Lynch.

Un super-voilier de luxe battant pavillon britannique a fait naufrage dans la nuit de dimanche 18 à lundi 19 août, près de Palerme (Sicile), surpris par une tempête soudaine, selon les secours. D’après le dernier bilan communiqué par les autorités, une personne est morte, six sont portées disparues et quinze ont été secourues.

Le propriétaire du yacht, Mike Lynch, avait organisé la croisière comme une célébration avec des membres de sa famille, certains de ses employés et de ses avocats après avoir été relaxé en juin dans une affaire de fraude aux Etats-Unis. Douze passagers et dix membres d’équipage en majorité britanniques se trouvaient à bord.

Le yacht de 56 mètres de long a coulé au large de Porticello, une ville côtière à environ 15 kilomètres à l’est de Palerme, dont la baie abrite, à cette période de l’année, une nuée de luxueux bateaux de plaisance.

Le Bayesian, qui avait jeté l’ancre à environ 700 mètres au large de la commune de Porticello, s’est trouvé sur la route d’une trombe marine, un phénomène de plus en plus observé en Europe ces dernières années, qui l’a littéralement renversé et fait couler en quelques minutes.

« L’enfer s’est déchaîné, on ne comprenait rien, le vent est arrivé, puis l’eau, c’était certainement une tornade », a raconté à l’AFPTV [Agence France-Presse reportages télévisés] Giovanni Lococco, un pêcheur de Porticello, commune au large de laquelle était ancrée l’embarcation. Des caméras de sécurité d’un établissement balnéaire montrent des tables, des chaises et même un conteneur voler dans les airs.

« C’est plutôt sans précédent. C’est un événement extraordinaire (…) qui a un impact très fort, mais une faible probabilité de se produire », a déclaré à l’Agence France-Presse Matthew Schanck, patron de Maritime Search and Rescue Council, une entreprise spécialisée dans les secours maritimes. « On ne l’a pas vu venir », a témoigné le capitaine rescapé du bateau, James Catfield, cité dans la presse.

Karsten Borner, le capitaine d’un autre yacht ancré à proximité au moment de la tempête, a fait état d’une « très forte rafale d’ouragan » et expliqué qu’il avait dû se battre pour maintenir son bateau stable avant de porter secours aux passagers du Bayesian.

Mike Lynch est porté disparu, ainsi que sa fille de 18 ans, Hannah. Parfois surnommé le « Bill Gates britannique », parce qu’il était l’un des rares entrepreneurs du Royaume-Uni à avoir réussi dans les nouvelles technologies, Mike Lynch avait aussi été au centre d’une longue saga judiciaire, accusé d’une complexe et large fraude comptable, avant de remporter, contre toute attente, son procès en juin.

Un seul corps a été récupéré. Selon la presse, il s’agit du cuisinier de bord, né au Canada mais citoyen d’Antigua, dont le nom n’était pas confirmé en fin de journée, mardi.

Jonathan Bloomer, président du conseil d’administration de Morgan Stanley International, une branche de la banque américaine du même nom, et de l’assureur Hiscox, ainsi que son épouse comptent parmi les disparus, selon un communiqué d’Hiscox.

Chris Morvillo, un avocat associé du cabinet Clifford Chance qui a défendu Mike Lynch dans son procès aux Etats-Unis, ainsi que son épouse, sont également portés disparus, a confirmé le cabinet. M. Morvillo avait défendu Mike Lynch dans son procès contre le groupe américain Hewlett-Packard qui a racheté son entreprise Autonomy, un éditeur de logiciels, en 2011 pour 11 milliards de dollars.

L’épouse de M. Lynch, Angela Bacares a, elle, été secourue, de même, que quatorze autres personnes. Il s’agit principalement des collaborateurs de Mike Lynch et du cabinet Clifford Chance. Parmi eux, Charlotte Golunski, une passagère britannique de 35 ans du voilier et membre de la direction de Luminance, une entreprise créée par M. Lynch, a raconté avoir perdu sa fille de 1 an « pendant deux secondes » dans l’eau avant de la récupérer.

« Je l’ai immédiatement serrée dans mes bras au milieu de la fureur des vagues. Beaucoup criaient. Heureusement, le canot de sauvetage a été gonflé et nous avons été onze à monter à son bord », a-t-elle confié à l’agence de presse italienne Ansa.

Des pompiers formés aux plongées en eau profonde sont arrivés lundi soir dans le but de localiser et récupérer les six disparus potentiellement piégés dans l’épave. Mais les plongeurs n’ont pu pénétrer immédiatement à l’intérieur de l’épave « en raison de la présence de mobilier qui en obstrue l’entrée », ont écrit les pompiers sur le réseau social X.

Les plongeurs ne disposent d’aucune autre voie d’accès, le voilier reposant, intact, à environ 50 mètres de fond, sur son flanc droit. Une fois à l’intérieur, « les espaces sont très restreints, et si vous rencontrez un obstacle il est très difficile d’avancer, et de trouver des chemins alternatifs », a expliqué à l’AFP un porte-parole des pompiers, Luca Cari.

Compte tenu de la profondeur, chaque plongée est limitée à seulement douze minutes et mardi en milieu de journée la houle forcissait, rendant les opérations plus compliquées encore, selon une journaliste de l’AFPTV.

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Les impressionnantes images du naufrage du "My Saga", un super-yacht de luxe, au large de l'Italie

Le navire de luxe avait été construit en 2007. Dans la nuit du 20 au 21 août, il a été pris dans une tempête au large des côtes italiennes. L'équipage et les passagers ont été secourus, mais le bateau a coulé à pic.

Pris dans une violente tempête au large des côtes italiennes dans la nuit du 20 au 21 août, le super-yacht de luxe My Saga a coulé à pic, comme le montre une vidéo. Les cinq membres d'équipage et les quatre passagers ont tous été sauvés par les garde-côtes, mais les conditions météo n'ont pas permis de remorquer le navire.

Le immagini dello yacht di 40 metri affondato nel golfo di Squillace, a circa 9 miglia marine dalle coste di Catanzaro Marina. Gli occupanti sono stati salvati dalla Guardia costiera. #ANSA https://t.co/DFgdok6hsk pic.twitter.com/4XIRGCIaWS — Agenzia ANSA (@Agenzia_Ansa) August 23, 2022

Un super-yacht de luxe construit en 2007

Ce dernier appartenait à une société monégasque. D'une longueur de 39,4 mètres, il avait été construit en 2007 selon des critères très luxueux. Pouvant héberger jusqu'à 12 personnes et 7 membres d'équipage, l'intérieur de My Saga avait été conçu par l'architecte marseillais Jean-Marc Archy.

Selon Le Parisien, une enquête a été ouverte par les garde-côtes de Catanzaro, ville du sud du pays, pour tenter de comprendre les raisons exactes du naufrage.

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Naufrage d’un yacht de luxe en Sicile : « Pendant deux secondes, j’ai perdu ma fille dans la mer », témoigne une rescapée

Charlotte Golunski a maintenu Sophia, sa fille âgée d’un an, « à flot de toutes ses forces, les bras tendus vers le haut pour l’empêcher de se noyer », alors que le « Bayesian » sombrait au large de Porticello en Sicile.

« C’était la fin du monde. » Une rescapée britannique du « Bayesian » , Charlotte Golunski, a raconté dans la presse le naufrage du luxueux voilier dans lequel elle était avec sa fille, Sophia, âgée de tout juste un an, dans la nuit de dimanche à lundi , au large de Porticello en Sicile. Ce mercredi, cinq corps ont été retrouvés , en plus du premier corps qui avait été retrouvé peu de temps après le naufrage. Une personne était toujours disparue mercredi soir.

« Le tonnerre, les éclairs et les vagues faisaient danser » le navire, explique Charlotte Golunski, 35 ans, au quotidien italien Corriere della Sera . D’emblée, elle et son mari, James Emsilie, ont compris que les éléments déchaînés pouvaient les engloutir. Il fallait fuir à tout prix et gagner le pont du navire avec leur fille. « Une course vers le désastre parce que c’était l’enfer et que mon mari et moi luttions pour subvenir à nos besoins… Et dans ce désastre, je ne sais pas comment il a été possible de rester en vie », a-t-elle expliqué.

« Les cris des autres »

« Pendant deux secondes, j’ai perdu ma fille dans la mer, puis je l’ai rapidement serrée dans mes bras au milieu de la fureur des vagues », a-t-elle expliqué à la Repubblica , un récit repris par la BBC . Charlotte Golunski, a ensuite maintenu Sophia « à flot de toutes ses forces, les bras tendus vers le haut pour l’empêcher de se noyer ».

'For two seconds I lost my baby in the sea' - Sicily yacht survivor. Charlotte Golunski used all her strength to hold her baby above the surface of the water after the Bayesian yacht sank. https://t.co/7H9Vx07K0u pic.twitter.com/VM0EGLXJqi — Neo News and Sports (@LivCreativ2024) August 19, 2024

« Il faisait noir. Dans l’eau, je ne pouvais pas garder les yeux ouverts. J’ai crié à l’aide, mais tout ce que j’entendais autour de moi, c’étaient les cris des autres », a-t-elle raconté, la gorge nouée. Puis des cordes et des gilets de sauvetage sont arrivés du bateau voisin, celui de Néerlandais. Tous trois ont été sauvés, comme douze autres. Mardi Charlotte Golunski, son mari James Emsilie et leur fille d’un an Sophie ont pu quitter ensemble l’hôpital Di Cristina de Palerme.

Quelques heures avant la tornade survenue lundi à l’aube, la fête battait son plein sur le « Bayesian », le bateau à bord duquel se trouvaient 12 passagers et 10 membres d’équipage. Mike Lynch, un richissime homme d’affaires surnommé le « Bill Gates britannique » , fêtait avec ses amis, collaborateurs et avocats sa relaxe en juin dans un procès pour fraude aux États-Unis qui aurait pu lui coûter de longues années de prison. Le navire a sombré en quelques minutes et 15 personnes ont été sauvées.

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Video: 39m superyacht MY Saga sinks off coast of Italy

BY APB Staff on 23 Aug 2022

MY Saga had been travelling from Turkey to Sicily when it started taking on water at the stern

Image: Guardia Costiera

A superyacht sunk off the coast of northern Italy, after the crew reported the vessel taking on water at the stern.

Dramatic footage of the scene shared by the coast guard  shows the 39.4-metre superyacht MY Saga  tilting heavily to starboard, as the waves crash against the decks.

Reports say the incident occurred around eight nautical miles from Catanzaro Marina in the Gulf of Squillace. Everyone on board has been safely rescued from the vessel with no injuries reported.

The sinking comes after the crew reported taking on water via the stern in the early hours of August 20 (Saturday). The crew were evacuated and a tug was in the process of towing Saga  to Crotone when the yacht sank, at around 1pm Italian time. 

A statement issued by the Italian Coast Guard says that worsening weather conditions and the angle of the yacht’s incline made it challenging for the tug boat to bring Saga to port.

The area where the yacht sank is believed to be around 200 metres deep. 

Nei giorni scorsi, la #GuardiaCostiera di #Crotone ha coordinato operazioni di salvataggio di passeggeri ed equipaggio di uno yacht di 40m, affondato a 9 miglia al largo di #CatanzaroMarina . Avviata inchiesta amministrativa per individuarne le cause. #SAR #AlServizioDegliAltri pic.twitter.com/kezuiivqsM — Guardia Costiera (@guardiacostiera) August 22, 2022

Marine traffic data indicates the yacht had been attempting to travel between Gallipoli in Turkey to Milazzo on the northern coast of Sicily when the sinking took place. 

Originally delivered in 2007 as  Yuko, MY Saga  was built by now-defunct shipyard Cantieri San Marco, and designed by Tim Heywood. The yacht, which sailed under the Cayman Islands flag, had a range of up to 4,606 nautical miles could accommodate up to 12 guests in six staterooms, with eight crew members.

An investigation into the incident will take place in the coming weeks. 

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Deep sea impedes search for 6 missing after yacht sinks off Sicily

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Police divers resumed searching Tuesday for six people believed trapped in the hull of a superyacht that sank in deep seas off Sicily, including British tech magnate Mike Lynch, who was celebrating his recent acquittal on fraud charges with the people who had defended him at trial.

The luxury sailboat, off Porticello near Palermo, was some 50 meters (164 feet) underwater — far deeper than most recreational divers are certified for and a depth that requires special precautions. Recovery crews could only stay for 12-minute shifts, a measure that slowed efforts to reach the cramped inside of the wreck.

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Divers tag-teamed the shifts and were using a remote-controlled underwater vehicle, or ROV, to help in the search. They hadn’t been able to access the below-deck cabins because they were blocked by furniture that shifted during the violent storm that struck the vessel early Monday. Rescue crews said they assume the missing six are in those cabins because the storm struck when most would be sleeping, but the teams haven’t verified their presence there through portholes.

The Bayesian, a 56-meter (184-foot) British-flagged yacht, was moored about a kilometer (a half-mile) offshore when a storm rolled in before 4 a.m. Monday. Civil protection officials said they believed the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout, and sank quickly.

Grainy film from closed-circuit cameras from shore, broadcast on the website of the Giornale di Sicilia, showed the majestic, illuminated 75-meter (246-foot) mast of the Bayesian weathering the storm and then disappearing over the course of a minute.

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Fifteen of the 22 people aboard survived, including a mother who reported holding her 1-year-old baby over the waves to save her. One body was recovered, identified by officials as Recaldo Thomas, the Canadian-Antiguan on-board chef. The rest of the 10-person crew survived, including the captain whom prosecutors reportedly sought to interview.

“He knew everybody and was friends with everybody. He’d always ask how you were doing, how your family was – he was always positive” a friend of Thomas, Eli Fuller, told BBC .

“Personality was very important in his job. The world’s richest people want to hang out with someone social. He was sought after.”

“He would come over to mine over the weekend and he would sing. He had the deepest, most sultry voice in the world, and a smile that lit up the room,” said Gareth Williams, who had known Thomas for 30 years.

“He told me just the other day that he needed to work two more seasons to fix up his late parents’ house. He loved yachting, but he was tired.”

Survivors were rescued by a nearby sailboat after getting into a lifeboat.

Lynch, who was once hailed as Britain’s king of technology, was cleared in June of fraud and conspiracy charges in a U.S. federal trial related to Hewlett Packard’s $11 billion takeover of his company, Autonomy Corp. His wife, Angela Bacares, survived the sinking. Hannah Lynch, the couple’s 18-year-old daughter, is reportedly unaccounted for.

Also unaccounted for are Christopher Morvillo, one of Lynch’s lawyers, and his wife, Neda; and Jonathan Bloomer, a chairman at Morgan Stanley International and the former head of the Autonomy audit committee who testified in Lynch’s defense, and his wife.

Karsten Borner, the captain of the Sir Robert Baden Powell, which rescued the survivors, said he was close enough to see the Bayesian as the storm came in.

“A moment later, she was gone,” he said.

“It’s a great, great tragedy,” said Britain’s ambassador to Italy, Edward Llewellyn, who visited Porticello on Tuesday. Britain sent four investigators to the scene, given the disaster involved a British-flagged ship and British citizens were among the missing.

Luca Cari, a spokesman for the rescue teams, said the search was proceeding much more slowly than another big shipwreck in Italy, the 2012 Costa Concordia cruise ship that flipped on its side off Tuscany’s coast, because of the depth of the wreck and the limited space divers have to maneuver.

“That was much simpler. Here everything is more tight,” he said.

The outing was intended at least in part as a celebration of Lynch’s acquittal and a “looking forward to what was coming next,” said Reid Weingarten, a Washington attorney and a member of Lynch’s defense team who was not on the yacht.

“A lot of people went, a lot of people were planning to go and then, of course, this happened,” Weingarten said.

Weingarten worked with Morvillo and said he “was like a brother.”

Aki Hussain, CEO of international insurer Hiscox Group, where Bloomer was chairman, said the company was “deeply shocked and saddened by this tragic event.”

“Our thoughts are with all those affected, in particular our Chair, Jonathan Bloomer, and his wife Judy, who are among the missing, and with their family as they await further news from this terrible situation,” he added.

Among the survivors, the Emslie family was released from Palermo’s pediatric hospital on Tuesday. Charlotte Golunski had reported that she momentarily lost hold of her 1-year-old daughter, Sofia, in the water but then managed to hold her up over the waves until they were both pulled to safety, doctors said.

The father, identified by ANSA news agency as James Emslie, also survived.

“They don’t talk much, primarily because they consider themselves survivors and they don’t understand why they survived given what they went through,” said Dr. Domenico Cipolla, head of the emergency room at Di Cristina pediatric hospital.

Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Cipolla said the parents had been in touch with other survivors, who are being housed at a nearby hotel and were waiting for other family members to arrive in Sicily.

The Bayesian, built in 2008 by the Italian firm Perini Navi, is registered to Revtom Ltd., according to online maritime database Equasis. Bacares, Lynch’s wife, is listed as Revtom’s sole owner, according to corporate registration documents from the Isle of Man.

According to online charter companies, it had been available for charter for 195,000 euros (about $215,000) a week and was notable for its massive 75-meter-tall (246-foot-tall) aluminum mast, one of the tallest in the world.

The coast guard said to date there was no trace of fuel leaks from the wreckage.

In an unrelated event, Lynch’s co-defendant in the Autonomy trial who was also cleared, Stephen Chamberlain, was killed Sunday when he was hit by a car while running in Cambridgeshire, England, said Chamberlain’s lawyer, Gary Lincenberg.

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MY SAGA is a 39.4 m Motor Yacht, built in Italy by Cantieri San Marco and delivered in 2007.

Her top speed is 12.5 kn and she boasts a maximum range of 4000.0 nm when navigating at cruising speed, with power coming from two Caterpillar diesel electric engines. She can accommodate up to 12 guests in 6 staterooms, with 8 crew members waiting on their every need. She has a gross tonnage of 376.0 GT and a 8.4 m beam.

She was designed by Tim Heywood , who also completed the naval architecture. Tim Heywood has designed 61 yachts and created the naval architecture for 0 yachts for yachts above 24 metres.

Her interior was designed by Jean-Marc Achy - she is built with a Teak deck, a Steel hull, and Aluminium superstructure.

When delivered, MY SAGA will join a fleet of 1168 motor yachts in the 35-40m size range. Compared to similarly sized motor yachts, her volume will be 108.51 GT above the average.

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The 39.4m/129'3" motor yacht 'My Saga' (ex. YuKo) was built by Monaco Yachting & Technologies in Monaco. Her interior is styled by design house Jean-Marc Achy architecte dplg and she was completed in 2007. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Tim Heywood Design.

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My Saga is built with a steel hull and aluminium superstructure, with teak decks. Powered by twin diesel Caterpillar (C-18) 503hp engines, she comfortably cruises at 11 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 14 knots with a range of up to 4,606 nautical miles from her 48,400 litre fuel tanks. Her water tanks store around 8,840 Litres of fresh water. She was built to RINA (Registro Italiano Navale) classification society rules.

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37m | Heesen

from $100,000 p/week ♦︎

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38m | Gulf Craft

from $118,000 p/week ♦︎

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