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5-KR yacht "Kleine Brise" : Wooden beauty modelled on a plastic boat

Lasse Johannsen

 ·  28.04.2024

5-KR yacht type "Götz

The model for "kleine brise" is bill tripp's favourite yacht - a grp boat, still a strong regatta participant today, nothing is missing below deck, the interior has furniture quality, you can't tell that "kleine brise" is 55 years old, technical data of the 5-kr yacht "kleine brise".

"That's my most favoured yacht!" - that's my most favourite yacht! When designer William H. Tripp Jr., known as "Bill", says this, he is praising an early GRP production boat that has been built in Holland for a New York general importer since the early 1960s and has been marketed overseas with great success. It epitomises an entire era of yachts that still look the same in terms of design, but are already made from the then newly emerging boatbuilding material.

Glass fibres bonded with synthetic resin - not every sailor is comfortable with the idea of entrusting their life to this still completely untested material. In those early days, it was hard to imagine that "glass resin" would rapidly revolutionise traditional boatbuilding and eventually almost replace it. And so there are still new boats on the market made of plywood, moulded or traditionally planked wood - albeit with a decreasing tendency.

The "Kleine Brise", a 5-KR yacht of the "Götz" type, a shipyard class that was first built by Joh. de Dood & Sohn from Bremen in 1966, bears particularly impressive witness to this period of unprecedented upheaval. At the time, the "Kleine Brise" was the last new yacht to be built from solid wood at the Hamburg Boat Show. And her role model is - of all things - a plastic boat.

The collaboration between the Bremen yacht shipyard Joh. de Dood & Sohn and the American designer Bill Tripp led to the first of a whole series of sister ships being built in 1966. The nine-metre "Götz", named after the shipyard manager Henry Rosskamp, cut a fine figure on the regatta course and, as a true cruiser/racer, was equipped with a furniture-like interior on the shipyard side. The model was a construction that had been manufactured in GRP since the early 1960s, which was modified for timber construction at de Dood - exactly the opposite of what was customary at the time.

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"A ship drawn by Tripp with an overall length of nine metres was currently being built in Holland from plastic," recalls De-Dood operations manager Henry Rosskamp in his memoirs of the design quoted at the beginning, "the so-called Tripp-Lentsch 30. I personally liked the ship very much, but it was out of the question as a plastic ship either in terms of material or cost. Bill allowed me to redraw the ship in conventional timber construction and build it for myself."

The American was 45 years old at the time and already a star designer. Tripp subscribed to cruisers/racers, his signature style was restrained superstructures, a pronounced deck step, which led to a high bow with an already high freeboard. As much attention as Tripp devotes to fast underwater boats, the aesthetic appearance of his designs, which are characterised by balanced proportions and a classic look, is just as important to him. With the Hinckley Bermuda 40, he had already presented his best-known design years earlier. The fact that he allowed Rosskamp to modify his design at the time is testament to his greatness.

• Neptune cruiser: classic skerry cruiser with trident - made of wood or GRP

And so the unbelievable happens. While moulds of wooden boats were being accepted for GRP construction everywhere, the opposite approach was taken on the Weser - back to the future. Rosskamp's yacht is launched in 1967 as the "Götz IV" and gives its name to the future shipyard class; although, according to the list of construction numbers, the first yacht of the new type was actually delivered to a Hamburg customer a year earlier. The "Kleine Brise" was completed in spring 1969 with the construction number 518. She makes her first journey overland - to the halls of the Hamburg Boat Show.

"Little breeze" is an orchid in the daisy field

Its ninth edition is the occasion for a page-long report in YACHT 5/1969 entitled "Glanz ist Trumpf". The "Kleine Brise", still unchristened as the "Götz" type, is also mentioned. What's more, the reporter literally gushes: "At this GRP show, the 'Götz' looked like an orchid in a field of daisies. Her workmanship, African mahogany on glued oak frames and teak decks, represents the optimum in yacht building quality. The 'Götz' already proved her excellent sailing qualities in the regattas of the Kieler Woche 1968."

In fact, Rosskamp had already shown the speed potential of his small sea cruiser in the first season. At the Weser-Jade Week in 1967, he sailed to four first prizes and five special prizes in four races.

It was the era of the KR formula that gave the domestic yacht fleet its conventional character at a time when the split lateral plan and lightweight construction had long been invented. The 1949 formula goes back to a suggestion by Henry Rasmussen and ensured a supply of long keels with S frames right into the seventies. The inhabitants of the German coasts of the North Sea and Baltic Sea have long regarded them as the ideal cruising yacht, and so it is taken for granted that they are also used on the regatta course.

The "Kleine Brise" will also be at the start of the 30th German Classics 2018. The atmosphere on board is one of ambitious anticipation. Two long-serving co-sailors and the skipper form a well-rehearsed crew, the handholds are in place and the friends cheer each other on with pithy remarks.

The "Kleine Brise" makes it easy for her crew. The dimensions of nine by 2.74 metres are manageable, the sail area of 30 square metres is easy to handle, and the three and a half tonne displacement is extremely low for a traditionally built wooden boat of this size. The weight is well distributed throughout the boat, the engine is under the saloon table and the overhangs are empty. In the large cockpit, everyone has their own workstation, with the helmsman sitting close behind the superstructure bulkhead at the tiller and the main and foresail skipper behind.

The wind is blowing strongly on this sunny day, and the short, steep wave on Kiel's outer fjord is challenging. But the "Kleine Brise" copes well with this and crosses the start line under main and genoa II and fights her way to windward. Many of the competitors stay astern. On the downwind course, the spinnaker is set with the curt comment "Fun is a must". The wind has picked up again, it's close to the limit. Twice the "Kleine Brise" almost shoots into the sun - but only almost. At no point does the helmsman lose control of his ship. In the end, "Kleine Brise" finished third in its group according to the calculated time.

The owner at the time, Arnulf Dahm, bought the "Kleine Brise" primarily for extended trips on the Baltic Sea (editor's note: this article first appeared in YACHT 06/2019, "Kleine Brise" has since been sold). He then sits at the tiller, which ends far forward in the cockpit, protected under the sprayhood. Dahm goes on summer holidays with his wife, friends or even single-handed, preferably to places where other classic boat enthusiasts meet. In 2012, he attended the anniversary regatta "100 Years Summer Olympics Stockholm" and was present at all the Classic Weeks organised by the Circle of Friends.

Dahm remembers well that the suitability for cruising sailing in particular immediately struck him when he stepped aboard his boat for the first time. "What really fascinated me was the size and utilisation of the available interior space," he says. Because although his gem is a small yacht by today's standards, it lacks nothing below deck. In the saloon, there is a navigation station, galley, sofa berths and folding table as well as various lockers and drawers; an enclosed toilet room and a large cupboard are fitted in front. The interior is still in top condition with high-quality furniture. The atmosphere below deck is dignified, with numerous details such as the elegant saloon floor or the elaborately crafted stanchions testifying to the shipyard's claim to set standards in boatbuilding.

It was in December 2010 that Dahm succumbed to this charm. At the time, he had just sold his old boat. But he knew the "Kleine Brise", and she had long haunted his dreams as the ideal successor. When the previous owner actually expressed his intention to sell, he took up the scent, with the familiar result.

Modesty is the trump card at the Bremen shipyard

"My previous owner loved his boat and had a lot done to it in the ten years we spent together," says Dahm, "I was totally taken with its condition." Then there are the dimensions and the extremely low weight. "For me, who does a lot of travelling alone, it was so tempting that I said, this is exactly my boat."

And there is something else that will delight wooden boat fans: the legendary quality workmanship of the Bremen shipyard. "Construction: solid wood on glued frames", the brochure states succinctly. Alongside praise for the design and regatta suitability, there is not a word about the selection of high-quality wood or the elaborate glued construction method that ensures that the "Kleine Brise" still has a dust-dry bilge today. Not a word about the bronze floor cradles or the stainless steel diagonal stringers in the mast area, where competitor boats have often had problems over the years.

Even missing words say something. At de Dood, the term yacht building was narrowly defined. In the early seventies, owner Cornelius de Dood was quoted in YACHT as saying that 90 per cent of the shipyards that had tried their hand at building wooden ships did not have the operational prerequisites for this. These included air-conditioned halls and drying chambers for the wood.

Cornelius de Dood rebuilt the shipyard founded by his father in 1921 after the war. When the keel of the "Kleine Brise" was laid here, the business had reached its zenith. More than half of the newbuildings were built for American account, with big names such as Olin Stephens coming to approve them.

Regatta yachts with names such as "Esprit", "Wappen von Bremen", "Hamburg", "Diana", "Inshallah" or "Carina" are built here; however, the industrialisation of yacht building has overtaken the conventional business like an avalanche. New materials were only half-heartedly accepted and a labour cost share of 50 to 70 percent was standard, but no longer in keeping with the times. The last new build was launched in the mid-seventies.

In the years before Dahm's ownership, the "Kleine Brise" was a regular guest at the shipyard of a former master boat builder from de Dood, who had many of these jewels in his care. "The outer skin was planed through and rebuilt, the superstructure was given a new thick veneer and the teak deck was completely replaced," says Dahm. His aim was to maintain this good condition. "I need about eight weekends in the winter season for this," says Dahm.

All wooden parts are then finished. "The surface is now so fantastic that you only have to sand it very lightly with 320-grit paper, then I can paint it with a roller and finishing brush," explains Dahm, adding that the effort involved is not much greater than an intensive gelcoat polish.

Unexplained history of the small yacht

In most cases, however, there would also be a larger project. Sometimes it was the ageing electrics, then the engine needed a cure and new foundations. The rigging was also overhauled as part of one of these winter projects. Dahm had the mast and boom powder-coated.

His current project is researching the history of his yacht, the trail of which is lost in the wake of its previous owner. According to the construction number book, the "Kleine Brise" was built exactly 50 years ago by the shipyard on its own account and completed in time for the Hamburg Boat Show. It is unclear who bought her there and which hands she passed through.

But what does it matter - after all, the "Kleine Brise" sails in the here and now. She will be 55 years old this summer, but you wouldn't know it by looking at her. Neither on the water, where she is as agile as ever, writing her nautical miles in the wake, nor in the harbour - where she actually looks a little like an orchid in a field of daisies.

• Design engineer: Bill Tripp
• Building yard: de Dood
• Total length: 9,00 m
• LWL: 8,30 m
• Width: 2,74 m
• Depth: 1,35 m
• Displacement: 3,6 t
• sail area: 32 m2

The article first appeared in YACHT 06/2019 and has been updated for the online version.

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The current position of KINGDOM 5-KR is in Ligurian Sea with coordinates 43.81683° / 7.78777° as reported on 2024-08-23 02:15 by AIS to our vessel tracker app. The vessel's current speed is 0 Knots and is currently inside the port of SANREMO .

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5 bodies reportedly found off Sicily coast, 1 still missing after luxury superyacht sank in freak storm. Here's what we know about the incident.

Passengers from the bayesian, which costs $215,000 to rent for a week, were reportedly found on wednesday..

Four bodies were reportedly recovered off the coast of Sicily on Wednesday by divers searching for passengers who were aboard the luxury superyacht that sank earlier this week, the Italian coast guard said. A fifth body has been spotted and will be recovered on Thursday, while one person still remains missing.

The diving crews brought body bags to the port in Porticello, Italy, but none of the deceased have been identified yet.

The yacht sank on Monday after it was caught in the middle of an unexpected and violent storm. One person, the ship's chef, was recovered Monday.

Among the six passengers unaccounted for on Monday were British tech magnate Mike Lynch, sometimes referred to as the “British Bill Gates,” and his daughter, Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer and American lawyer Chris Morvillo.

What happened?

The Bayesian capsized while about half a mile off the coast of Porticello, a small fishing village. There were 22 people on board — 12 passengers and 10 crew members. The City Council of Bagheria said in a statement that seven adults were taken to the emergency room following the rescue, but “it seems that none are in serious conditions.”

While crews searched for the remaining bodies, others are trying to confirm why the boat sank in the first place. According to a BBC report , a heavy storm hit the coast of Sicily and created waterspouts , which are tornadoes that form over water. The waterspout winds were so powerful that they broke the boat’s mast in half, causing the ship, which was anchored, to lose its balance and sink.

The U.K.’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch plans to send a team of four investigators to make a preliminary assessment of why the Bayesian sank and why people were still on board.

As the ship was going down, 15 people were able to make it to safety and were rescued by a nearby boat.

The crew on a Dutch-flagged vessel nearby noticed the yacht had disappeared and saw flares being set off in the sea. They went to help survivors before the Italian coast guard could arrive.

One British passenger, Charlotte Golunski, told reporters she kept her 1-year-old daughter alive by holding her up above the water until they got on a lifeboat.

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Charter sites list the yacht’s weekly rent as $215,000, the Associated Press reported .

Boat International , a superyacht and luxury yacht guide, reported that the Bayesian had the tallest aluminum mast in the world at over 240 feet, making it one of the 50 largest sailing yachts in the world.

Who is Mike Lynch?

Lynch, 59, founded the software firm Autonomy and recently faced a legal battle with U.S.-based Hewlett-Packard after the tech company accused him of inflating Autonomy’s value in an $11 billion sale in 2011.

Lynch was acquitted of multiple fraud charges in June after a three-month trial, avoiding a potential 20-year jail sentence.

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5th body recovered from Mike Lynch's family yacht off Sicily as questions mount over luxury vessel's sinking

By Anna Matranga

Updated on: August 22, 2024 / 10:48 AM EDT / CBS News

Rome — Divers recovered the body of a fifth victim of the Bayesian superyacht wreck Thursday morning, Sicily Civil Protection Chief Salvo Cocina confirmed to CBS News, and the Reuters news agency cited Italian Interior Ministry official Massimo Mariani as saying it was the body of Mike Lynch, the British tech magnate whose wife owned the vessel.

Italian Coast Guard spokesperson Vincenzo Zagarola told CBS News that teams were still working to recover the body of the sixth and final person left missing when the boat went down. The six bodies had remained stuck inside the 184-foot luxury yacht for days after it sank early Monday morning off the coast of Palermo, Sicily in a severe thunderstorm.

Four bodies were retrieved Wednesday from the Bayesian, which was resting on the seafloor at a 90 degree angle at a depth of over 160 feet. The vessel's position and items that moved around inside the ill-fated yacht made recovery efforts slow and hazardous.

Italian authorities have not officially identified the remains recovered from the Bayesian, which belonged to Lynch's wife Angela Bacares. She was among the 15 people who managed to escape from the boat as it sank quickly on Monday morning, but Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah were among those left missing.

Another victim, the Bayesian superyacht's chef, was found dead soon after the boat capsized. 

Along with Lynch and his daughter, the technology mogul's American lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda, and British banker Jonathan Bloomer and his wife, were believed to have been trapped in the yacht when it sank.

Questions as to how the state-of-the-art boat could have gone down so quickly have mounted steadily since the accident. 

Italian media were reporting Thursday that, after questioning survivors and witnesses, Italian prosecutors had opened an official investigation into a possible "culpable shipwreck." No individuals had been named as potential suspects.

On Thursday, Giovanni Costantino, head of the Italian Sea Group, which owns the company Perini Navi, which built the Bayesian in 2008, blamed human error.

"A Perini ship resisted Hurricane Katrina, a Category 5 [hurricane]. Does it seem to you that it can't resist a tornado from here?" he remarked to the newspaper Corriere della Sera. "It is good practice when the ship is at anchor to have a guard on the bridge, and if there was one he could not have failed to see the storm coming. Instead, it took on water with the guests still in the cabin. ... They ended up in a trap, those poor people ended up like mice."

One possible factor could have been that the ship's keel — a fin-like structure that sticks out from the bottom of the boat, designed to provide stability and counterweight to the huge mast — was not fully deployed. The yacht had a retractable keel that could be raised for entry into shallow harbors. But a raised keel at sea would have made the ship much more vulnerable to instability in the strong winds that struck early Monday morning.

When asked whether divers had seen the ship's keel in a raised position, a spokesman for the Italian Coast Guard told CBS News that only the prosecutor investigating the incident could confirm such information but that the Coast Guard "was not denying" it. 

The ship's captain, 51-year-old New Zealand national James Cutfileld, was questioned for two hours by prosecutors on Thursday, according to Italian media.

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Sicily yacht sinking: Five bodies found with one passenger still missing as search continues

Bayesian, owned by the wife of british tech entrepreneur mike lynch, was carrying 22 passengers and crew when it sank.

Divers scouring the wreck of the luxury yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily on Monday have found the bodies of five of the six missing persons.

The UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch; his 18-year-old daughter Hannah Lynch; the Morgan Stanley International chair Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy; and the Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda, have been missing since the vessel went down.

The 56-metre yacht, named Bayesian and sailing under a British flag, was carrying 22 people and had anchored just off shore near the port of Porticello when it was hit by what was believed to be a tornado or waterspout.

The body of the yacht’s chef, Recaldo Thomas, was located shortly after the vessel sank.

Sicily yacht sinking: Tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch confirmed to be among those killed

Sicily yacht disaster: relief in north Sligo as Irish woman alive after Bayesian tragedy

Sicily yacht sinking: Bodies of Mike Lynch and others may be trapped in vessel, coastguard says

Mr Lynch is of Irish heritage – his father was a fireman from Co Cork, and his mother was a nurse from Co Tipperary.

The director-general of Sicily’s civil protection agency, Salvo Cocina, has confirmed that four bodies have been recovered by divers with the fifth having been found but not yet brought back to shore.

Cocina said: “On behalf of myself and my colleagues, I would like to express my deepest sympathy to the families of the victims and express our condolences to them at this difficult time”.

One person remains unaccounted for. It was earlier reported that all six bodies had been found.

Fifteen of the 22 passengers and crew on board – including Mr Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares – were rescued after escaping on to a lifeboat.

Body bags were seen being brought into the harbour aboard a fire brigade boat and lifted up on to the quayside.

The Italian Coastguard previously did not rule out the possibility that those missing may still be alive, with experts speculating air pockets could have formed as the yacht sank.

Sasha Murray (29), from Co Sligo, was among those rescued. She is staying with the other survivors at a resort in the small town of Santa Flavia.

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The search has been challenging for the rescue teams, who have struggled to get to the yacht, which is resting on the seabed off the coast at a depth of 50m. Once they breached the hull further investigation was obstructed by furniture and debris.

Fire crews described the rescue operation as “complex”, with divers limited to 12-minute underwater shifts.

Investigators are questioning witnesses and survivors. The yacht’s captain, James Cutfield, was reportedly interrogated for more than two hours.

The port authority has opened a separate investigation from that of the public prosecutor in the town of Termini Imerese, Sicily, to determine whether all adequate safety measures were taken by the crew. - Agencies

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6 dead after Mike Lynch's yacht sinks during storm in Sicily; search continues for 18-year-old daughter

Seven people are believed to have died in the shipwreck, according to multiple reports. lynch's 18-year-old daughter, hannah, has not been found, interior ministry official massimo mariani told reuters..

Video shows Bayesian yacht sinking in ferocious storm off Italian coast

Video footage obtained by Giornale Di Sicilia shows a view from Porticello, Sicily facing the sea as the storm unfolds and the moment the Bayesian superyacht went under the waves.

Italian authorities have identified the six bodies recovered from the wreckage of the Bayesian yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily on Monday, including those of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch .

Authorities recovered all but one of the missing persons who were last seen on the yacht in the pre-dawn hours on Monday when a dangerous storm swept through the area near Porticello . One body was recovered on Monday, and divers found five more after searching the sunken yacht. 

Seven people are believed to have died in the shipwreck, according to multiple reports. Lynch's 18-year-old daughter, Hannah, has not been found, interior ministry official Massimo Mariani told Reuters .

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Reuters reported that divers had difficulty accessing the cabins to recover the victims inside the yacht, which is lying on its side about 165 feet under the sea. 

Fifteen people were rescued by the Italian Coast Guard and local boaters early Monday after the yacht sank in the ferocious thunderstorm . CCTV video shows the 180-foot yacht going under the waves over a period of minutes during the severe weather . Some in the area have reported seeing a waterspout at the time of the incident. 

A dive team from the Italian Fire and Rescue Service leaving the site of the Bayesian on the fourth day of the search for the six tourists missing after the luxury yacht sank in a storm on Monday whilst moored around half a mile off Porticello on the Sicilian coast. The body of a fifth missing person has been recovered this morning, following the recovery of four others on Wednesday. (Photo by Jonathan Brady/PA Images via Getty Images)

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On Thursday, Italian authorities identified the recovered remains as belonging to Lynch and two couples: Judy and Jonathan Bloomer and Chris and Neda Morvillo.

The ship's chef, Ralcado Thomas, was found near the wreckage and identified on Monday. 

Lynch's wife, Angela Bacares, is among the 15 survivors. 

‘Unsinkable’ yacht built to survive a Category 5 hurricane

Mystery still surrounds how the Bayesian, which was built to withstand hurricanes , went down so easily in the storm when smaller sailboats nearby survived the severe thunderstorm. The superyacht was built by Italian manufacturer Perini Navi, a company under the Italian Sea Group luxury yacht brand. 

Italian Sea Group CEO Giovanni Costantino told the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera that the ship was "one of the safest boats in the world" and "unsinkable." He also told the news outlet that another Perini ship survived Category 5 Hurricane Katrina .

An investigation into the disaster is underway. 

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World News | Divers recover 5 bodies from wrecked superyacht off Sicily; 1 still missing

PORTICELLO, Sicily (AP) — Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily found the bodies of five passengers Wednesday, leaving one still missing as questions intensified about why the vessel sank so quickly when a nearby sailboat remained largely unscathed.

Rescue crews brought four body bags ashore at Porticello. Salvatore Cocina, head of the Sicily civil protection agency, said a fifth body had been located. Divers on-scene said they would try to recover it on Thursday while continuing the search for the sixth.

The discovery made clear the operation to search the hull on the seabed 50 meters (164 feet) underwater had quickly turned into a recovery one, not a rescue, given the amount of time that had passed and with no signs of life over three days of searching.

The Bayesian, a 56-meter (184-foot) British-flagged yacht, went down in a storm early Monday as it was moored about a kilometer (a half-mile) offshore. Civil protection officials said they believed the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout.

Fifteen people escaped in a lifeboat and were rescued by a nearby sailboat. The body of the ship’s chef, Recaldo Thomas of Antigua, was recovered Monday.

Thomas was born in Canada, according to his cousin David Isaac, but visited his parents’ homeland of Antigua as a child, and moved permanently to the tiny eastern Caribbean island in his early 20s. Italian officials previously listed Antigua and Canada as the nationality of people on board.

The fate of six missing passengers had driven the search effort, including British tech magnate Mike Lynch , his 18-year-old daughter and associates who had successfully defended him in a recent U.S. federal fraud trial.

Lynch’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Termini Imerese Public Prosecutor’s Office investigators were acquiring evidence for their criminal investigation, which they opened immediately after the tragedy despite no formal suspects having been publicly identified.

Questions have abounded about what caused the superyacht, built in 2008 by Italian shipyard Perini Navi, to rapidly sink, when the nearby Sir Robert Baden Powell sailboat was largely spared and managed to rescue the survivors.

Giovanni Costantino, head of The Italian Sea Group, which owns the ship maker, blamed human error for the disaster, which he said took 16 minutes. “The ship sank because it took on water. From where, the investigators will say,” he told RAI state television after he met with prosecutors.

Costantino cited AIS ship tracking data which he said showed the Bayesian had taken on water for four minutes when a sudden gust of wind flipped it and it continued taking on water. The ship straightened up slightly and then went down, he said.

But was it merely the case of a freak waterspout that knocked the ship to its side and allowed water to pour in through open hatches? What was the position of the keel, which on a large sailboat like the Bayesian might have been retractable to allow it to enter shallower ports?

“There’s a lot of uncertainty as to whether it had a lifting keel and whether it might have been up,” said Jean-Baptiste Souppez, a fellow of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects and the editor of the Journal of Sailing Technology. “But if it had, then that would reduce the amount of stability that the vessel had, and therefore made it easier for it to roll over on its side,” he said in an interview.

The captain of the sailboat that rescued survivors said his craft sustained minimal damage — the frame of a sun awning broke — even with winds that he estimated reached 12 on the Beaufort wind scale, which is the highest hurricane-strength force on the scale.

He said he had remained anchored with his engines running to try to maintain the ship’s position as the forecast storm rolled in.

“Another possibility is to heave anchor before the storm and to run downwind at open sea,” Karsten Borner said in a text message. But he said that might not have been possible for the Bayesian, given its trademark 75-meter (246-foot) tall mast.

“If there was a stability problem, caused by the extremely tall mast, it would not have been better at open sea,” he said.

Yachts like the Bayesian are required to have watertight, sub-compartments that are specifically designed to prevent a rapid, catastrophic sinking even when some parts fill with water.

The underwater search continued in dangerous and time-consuming conditions. Because of the wreck’s depth, which requires special precautions, divers working in pairs could only spend about 12 minutes at a time searching, though reinforcements outfitted with special equipment to enable longer dives were on the wreck Wednesday.

In all, some 27 divers took rotations, including four who helped with recovery after the 2012 Costa Concordia disaster off Tuscany. They called the Porticello wreck a “little Concordia,” fire crews said in a statement.

The limited dive time was aimed in part at avoiding decompression sickness, also known as the “bends,” which can occur when divers stay underwater for long periods and ascend too quickly, allowing nitrogen gas dissolved in the blood to form bubbles.

“The longer you stay, the slower your ascent has to be,” said Simon Rogerson, the editor of SCUBA magazine. He said the tight turnaround time suggested the operation’s managers were trying to limit the risks and recovery time after each dive.

“It sounds like they’re operating essentially on no decompression or very tight decompression, or they’re being extremely conservative,” he said.

Divers were also working with debris floating around them, limited visibility and air tanks on their backs.

“We are trying to advance in tight spaces, but any single thing slows us down,” said Luca Cari, spokesman for the fire rescue service. “An electric panel could set us back for five hours. These aren’t normal conditions. We’re at the limit of possibility.”

Winfield reported from Rome and Kirka from London. Associated Press journalists Trisha Thomas in Rome; Andrea Rosa in Porticello; and Anika Kentish in St. John’s, Antigua, contributed to this report.

This story has been corrected to reflect that Thomas was born in Canada, not Antigua.

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Italienische Feuerwehrtaucher haben fünf Leichen aus der am Montag vor Palermo gesunkenen Luxusjacht Bayesian geborgen. Sie befanden sich laut Medienberichten hinter zwei Matratzen. Damit wird nur noch eine weitere Person gesucht.

Die Leichen wurden nach Palermo gebracht, um sie zu identifizieren. An der Aktion beteiligten sich Taucher, die bereits Leichen aus dem 2012 gesunkenen Kreuzfahrtschiff Costa Concordia geborgen hatten. Die Bayesian liegt auf der Seite in 50 Metern Tiefe, was die Arbeiten erschwert, berichtete die Feuerwehr von Palermo. Bisher hatten die Tauchereinheiten lediglich einige Räume unterhalb der Kommandobrücke durchsuchen können. Zahlreiche Hindernisse versperrten ihnen den Weg und die engen Räume behinderten sie.

Auch Tauchroboter im Einsatz Bei der Suche nach den Vermissten erhielten die Taucher am Mittwoch technische Unterstützung. So wurde ein ferngesteuerter Tauchroboter eingesetzt, der Objekte und Strukturen näher untersuchen kann. Mit einer möglichen Tauchtiefe bis zu 200 Metern erreicht das Gerät das Wrack problemlos. Der Roboter lieferte dank Videokameras Bilder, die bei der Suchaktion nützlich sein können.

Zu den Opfern zählen der britische Technologie-Unternehmer Mike Lynch und seine 18-jährige Tochter Hannah, der Präsident von Morgan Stanley International, Jonathan Bloomer, sowie der CEO von Lynchs Gesellschaft, Chris Morvillo, und seine Frau Nada. Lynch war im Juni in den USA von Betrugsvorwürfen rund um den Verkauf seiner Software-Firma Autonomy freigesprochen worden. Ihm war unter anderem angekreidet worden, den Umsatz seines Unternehmens falsch angegeben zu haben. Die „Sunday Times“ schätzte das Vermögen des ehemaligen Beraters der britischen Regierung auf rund 587 Millionen Euro.

15 Menschen gerettet Bei dem Unglück vor der Küste Siziliens konnten Montagfrüh 15 Menschen gerettet werden, acht von ihnen wurden in Krankenhäuser eingeliefert. Unter ihnen war auch eine britische Familie mit einer kleinen Tochter, die sich retten konnte. Das 50 Meter lange Schiff mit 22 Menschen an Bord war gegen 5 Uhr vor Porticello nahe Palermo untergegangen. Die Überlebenden wurden von Patrouillenbooten der Küstenwache und der Feuerwehr gerettet.

Kapitän stundenlang befragt Warum das Schiff bei den schwierigen Wetterverhältnissen eine halbe Seemeile vor der Küste vor Anker lag, ist unklar. Der Kapitän der Bayesian, James Catfield, wurde von den im Fall ermittelnden Staatsanwälten zwei Stunden lang befragt.

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Den britiske milliardær mike lynch er blandt de savnede efter forliset af en super-yacht i italien.

Tech-milliardæren Mike Lynch er en af de personer, der er savnet, efter en superyacht med en række turister er sunket, da båden blev ramt af en kraftig skypumpe ud for Sicilien.

Det skriver Sky News .

God for mange milliarder Briten er manden bag software-firmaet Autonomy, som han endte med at sælge til giganten HP for et kæmpe beløb. I dag skulle Mike Lynch være god for adskillige milliarder og er nu kendt som 'Storbritanniens Bill Gates'.

Mike Lynch blev dog for alvor et kendt ansigt i Storbritannien, da han af de amerikanske myndigheder blev anklaget for svindel i forbindelse med salget af Autonomy. De mente, at han bevidst havde overdrevet firmaets værdi inden salget til giganten.

Derfor endte han med at være 14 måneder i husarrest i San Francisco, men det endte med, at han blev frikendt for alle anklager. 

Flere savnede En person er død, og seks savnes stadig, efter en såkaldt super-yacht med overvejende britiske passagerer er sunket, da båden blev ramt af en kraftig skypumpe ud for Sicilien. 

Det rapporterer italienske medier. 

Det er lykkedes den italienske kystvagt at samle 15 op af havet i live.

Blandt de overlevende er et etårigt barn og moren til barnet, skriver avisen Corriere della Sera ifølge Sky News.

Den 56 meter lange yacht Bayesian sejlede under britisk flag. Fire briter, to amerikanere og en canadier blev meldt savnet efter forliset ud for Porticello ifølge AFP. Porticello ligger lige øst for Palermo.

Yachten var sejlet ud søndag aften og lå for anker 700 meter fra Porticello, da den blev ramt af en tornado.

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- Cirka klokken 4.30 så var den ikke længere der. Det var en smuk båd, og der var en fest om bord. Det var en normal glad feriedag på havet, der blev til en tragedie, siger vedkommende.

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The body of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been recovered from the Bayesian yacht off the coast of Sicily , a source close to the family says

The search is continuing for one person who's still missing - it's believed it is Mike's 18-year-old daughter, Hannah

Five bodies have been brought ashore but they have not been formally identified

One body - that of Recaldo Thomas, the yacht's chef - was recovered from the sea on Monday

In total, 15 people survived, with six bodies recovered, and one person still missing

Live Reporting

Edited by Johanna Chisholm and Sophie Abdulla

Only a matter of time until rescue teams locate sixth body published at 08:04 British Summer Time 22 August 08:04 BST 22 August

One by one, the last of the missing are being retrieved from the wreckage: passengers who boarded their luxury summer yacht but didn’t come off alive.

The fifth body found by divers yesterday is expected to be brought ashore this morning and the rescue teams believe it’s only a matter of time until they locate the sixth and final one inside the Bayesian, which lies 50m underwater.

The bodies are being taken to mortuaries for formal identification and post-mortems.

Investigators questioned the captain, James Cutfield, for two hours. There are huge questions over whether he took necessary measures amid weather warnings, before a violent storm hit and prompted a waterspout, or mini tornado, which led the vessel to capsize within minutes.

Coastguard heads towards site of sunken yacht published at 07:48 British Summer Time 22 August 07:48 BST 22 August

The Italian coastguard set off early this morning towards the site of the Bayesian on the fourth day of the search operation for those missing.

Remotely controlled underwater vehicles are being used, with naval units and cave divers also taking part in the search, the coastguard said yesterday.

Six things to know this morning published at 07:37 British Summer Time 22 August 07:37 BST 22 August

• Five bodies have been found on the wreck of the Bayesian, with four of them brought to shore by specialist dive teams
• One person is still missing and search efforts are continuing this morning
• The three-day search operation has been complicated by the depth the wreck has sunk to, as well as debris from the yacht obstructing the divers
• The deceased have not been formally identified by Italian authorities so far
• The six people confirmed missing are Mike Lynch, Hannah Lynch, Jonathan Bloomer, Judy Bloomer, Chris Morvillo and Neda Morvillo
• The first confirmed victim of the tragedy, the boat's chef Recaldo Thomas , was found on Monday

Sicily search operation enters fourth day published at 07:32 British Summer Time 22 August 07:32 BST 22 August

Welcome back to our live coverage as the search resumes for one person still missing in the wreck of a luxury yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily on Monday.

Yesterday four bodies were recovered from the Bayesian and brought to shore. Another body was discovered yesterday evening but could not be brought back to shore before night fell.

Italian authorities are yet to formally identify those found in the vessel but we know that UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch, his daughter and four of his associates are missing.

Our teams in London and correspondents on the ground in Sicily will bring you live updates as we get them today, so stay with us.

Search to resume in the morning with one person still missing published at 20:20 British Summer Time 21 August 20:20 BST 21 August

With the search operation over for the evening, here's what we've learned from Sicily today:

• One person is still missing and search efforts are due to continue in the morning

We're going to be pausing our coverage for the day - you can read more on the Sicily tragedy here .

This page was written by Adam Durbin, Sophie Abdulla, Barbara Tasch, Matt Spivey, Thomas Copeland and was edited by Emily Atkinson, Sam Hancock, Johanna Chisholm and Sean Seddon.

An unsettling calm descends on port as third day of search comes to a close published at 20:05 British Summer Time 21 August 20:05 BST 21 August

The deep blue sea in Porticello harbour looks calm and serene this evening, but it has been a grim few hours here.

Through the strong lens of a camera, I watched as rescue teams at sea pulled what appeared to be the first body from the water.

Boats carrying green body bags then began arriving at the quayside where emergency workers had gathered.

The bags were placed in ambulances in a zone of the port that has been cordoned off for the public.

The sound of sirens filled the air as the ambulances, escorted by police cars, left the port.

Journalists and locals gathered on the shore watching as more coastguard vessels left the quayside and headed to the site of the wreck.

As helicopters circled over our heads, one man pointed out the divers to his small sons.

"Not easy," he said.

Search and recovery operation will resume tomorrow - Italian authorities published at 19:38 British Summer Time 21 August 19:38 BST 21 August

The search operation in Porticello has finished for the day and will resume tomorrow, the head of Sicily's civil protection agency has told the PA news agency.

Salvatore Cocina confirmed that five bodies have been found, but only four have been recovered from the water.

One person remains missing, Cocina adds.

Search teams appear to be packing up as sun sets published at 19:17 British Summer Time 21 August 19:17 BST 21 August

It's just after 20:15 in Sicily (19:15 BST) and the sun has set, with the search operation looking to be closed for the day.

Cameras in the harbour in Porticello show search teams packing up, loading diving gear onto vehicles or placing equipment inside tents erected on the quayside.

But we haven't had official confirmation that it's ended for the day - we will update you if that changes.

Crowds gather as bodies return to shore published at 19:01 British Summer Time 21 August 19:01 BST 21 August

This is what the scene at the harbour in Porticello looks like this evening.

Members of the public alongside journalists from international media are all watching on as a series of body bags are brought ashore.

The sinking of the Bayesian has brought unprecedented attention to this small coastal town.

When will victims of yacht tragedy be formally identified? published at 18:33 British Summer Time 21 August 18:33 BST 21 August

Stefano Fasano Live reporter

The Italian authorities have been promptly communicating with the BBC, and other media, as five of the six victims have been found, reporting almost on a minute-by-minute basis as they were brought ashore.

However, they have so far declined to identify the bodies, despite reports from local and international media on some of their names.

This is likely because the authorities are waiting to recover all six bodies before contacting the victims' families.

According to Italian law, the bodies must be formally identified by a family member, or a person close to the victims, before the deaths can be officially certified.

It is possible that the authorities will hold a news conference once all the bodies have been retrieved and brought ashore.

At present, four bodies have been brought ashore, and rescuers are working to recover a fifth from the Bayesian shipwreck.

Fifth body found on wreck published at 18:14 British Summer Time 21 August 18:14 BST 21 August Breaking

Sicilian authorities tell the BBC that divers have found a fifth body inside the Bayesian.

They are working to retrieve it from the wreck.

This leaves one person of the six they were looking for still missing.

How underwater teams used 'robots' to search sunken yacht published at 17:52 British Summer Time 21 August 17:52 BST 21 August

As we reported earlier, the search and rescue team has deployed remote controlled underwater vehicles to help access the yacht.

Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) can operate on a seabed at a depth of up to 300m (984ft) for between six and seven hours.

In comparison, divers are only able to search the wreck for about 8-10 minutes per dive.

The devices are equipped with advanced technology that allows it to search the seabed and can record detailed videos and images using its camera and lights.

Divers will be traumatised, says rescue expert published at 17:25 British Summer Time 21 August 17:25 BST 21 August

Thomas Copeland Live reporter

The team of divers searching for bodies on the sunken Bayesian yacht will be deeply traumatised, an expert has told the BBC.

"For myself and for my team of divers, it's always very difficult if you have to do this job," says Bertrand Sciboz, who runs a company specialising in shipwreck research and salvage.

"It's always a big trauma," he adds, even if the divers are used to recover missions like this one.

Sciboz says it will be especially challenging to recover any missing passengers who were in the lower decks when the yacht sank.

"The worst thing in this case will be taking off all the debris just floating everywhere in the yacht."

Divers involved in the Bayesian operation have been pictured going to and from the Porticello harbour throughout the day

Four bodies brought to shore from boat wreckage published at 17:00 British Summer Time 21 August 17:00 BST 21 August Breaking

Four bodies have now been brought to shore from the sunken yacht, the BBC has confirmed.

The search continues for the two remaining passengers who are still unaccounted for.

Italian authorities have not confirmed the identities of those recovered this afternoon.

Search and rescue team return with another body bag published at 16:57 British Summer Time 21 August 16:57 BST 21 August

Images are coming through of another body bag being brought to shore at the harbour in Porticello, Sicily where the search and rescue operation is based.

As we've been reporting, four bodies have been found on the wreck of Bayesian this afternoon and their identities have not yet been revealed.

Another body - of the boat's chef, Recaldo Thomas - was found on Monday.

Two people remain missing.

Divers make their way back to shore as another body bag recovered

Four more bodies have been recovered from the luxury yacht

The search continues for two still missing published at 16:28 British Summer Time 21 August 16:28 BST 21 August

Four bodies may have been found in a relatively short space of time this afternoon, but the search continues for the two people still missing after the Bayesian luxury yacht sank on Monday.

We're yet to be told the identities of those who've been found today.

Italian officials are likely informing families and loved ones before releasing information to the wider public, and the media.

As soon as we hear an update, we'll let you know.

If you'd like to be reminded of the names of the six people divers were searching for when they went back in the water this morning, they're here .

Two more bodies found on sunken yacht published at 16:06 British Summer Time 21 August 16:06 BST 21 August Breaking

Two more bodies have been found inside the wreck of the Bayesian yacht, Sicily's civil protection agency has confirmed to the BBC. They are still inside the boat.

Earlier, two other bodies were located inside the sunken vessel - they have now been brought ashore.

The identities of the four people found this afternoon have not yet been confirmed.

This means two passengers, onboard the yacht when it sank on Monday, remain missing.

What we know so far published at 15:48 British Summer Time 21 August 15:48 BST 21 August

While we wait to hear more about developments in Porticello harbour, here's a quick summary of what we know has happened in the last hour or so:

• Divers have discovered two bodies inside the wreck of the Bayesian
• One of them has been brought to shore in a body bag, and efforts to recover the second are under way
• Specialist divers have been searching the wreck for the six people missing since the yacht sank off the coast of Sicily on Monday
• Italian authorities have not confirmed the identities of those found in the last hour, but reports in local media indicate one is male
• The first person to be recovered was the boat's chef, Recaldo Thomas, on Monday

Body bag transported to shore published at 15:10 British Summer Time 21 August 15:10 BST 21 August

Images have just come through showing search and rescue personnel transporting what appears to be a green body bag to shore.

You can see them here:

Who have divers been searching for? published at 15:06 British Summer Time 21 August 15:06 BST 21 August

With the news that two more bodies have been found, here's a reminder of the six people who were still missing when divers re-entered the Mediterranean Sea today:

• UK businessman Mike Lynch, who helped establish Cambridge Neurodynamics and co-founded the firm Autonomy
• His daughter, Hannah Lynch , an 18-year-old student
• Jonathan Bloomer , the chairman of Morgan Stanley Bank International
• His wife Judy Bloomer
• Chris Morvillo , a partner at the law firm Clifford Chance
• His wife Neda Morvillo, a jewellery designer

The Italian coastguard has not yet confirmed the age or sex of the two bodies that've just been found.

The body of the yacht's chef, Canadian-Antiguan national Recaldo Thomas , was found on Monday.

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Divers recover 5 bodies from wrecked superyacht off Sicily; 1 still missing

Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily found the bodies of five passengers Wednesday, leaving one still missing as questions intensified about why the vessel sank so quickly when a nearby sailboat remained largely unscathed.

By NICOLE WINFIELD, DANICA KIRKA and SILVIA STELLACCI

PORTICELLO, Sicily — Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily found the bodies of five passengers Wednesday, leaving one still missing as questions intensified about why the vessel sank so quickly when a nearby sailboat remained largely unscathed.

Rescue crews brought four body bags ashore at Porticello. Salvatore Cocina, head of the Sicily civil protection agency, said a fifth body had been located. Divers on-scene said they would try to recover it on Thursday while continuing the search for the sixth.

The discovery made clear the operation to search the hull on the seabed 50 meters (164 feet) underwater had quickly turned into a recovery one, not a rescue, given the amount of time that had passed and with no signs of life over three days of searching.

The Bayesian, a 56-meter (184-foot) British-flagged yacht, went down in a storm early Monday as it was moored about a kilometer (a half-mile) offshore. Civil protection officials said they believed the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout.

Fifteen people escaped in a lifeboat and were rescued by a nearby sailboat. The body of the ship's chef, Recaldo Thomas of Antigua, was recovered Monday.

Thomas was born in Canada, according to his cousin David Isaac, but visited his parents' homeland of Antigua as a child, and moved permanently to the tiny eastern Caribbean island in his early 20s. Italian officials previously listed Antigua and Canada as the nationality of people on board.

The fate of six missing passengers had driven the search effort, including British tech magnate Mike Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter and associates who had successfully defended him in a recent U.S. federal fraud trial.

Lynch's spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Termini Imerese Public Prosecutor's Office investigators were acquiring evidence for their criminal investigation, which they opened immediately after the tragedy despite no formal suspects having been publicly identified.

Questions have abounded about what caused the superyacht, built in 2008 by Italian shipyard Perini Navi, to rapidly sink, when the nearby Sir Robert Baden Powell sailboat was largely spared and managed to rescue the survivors.

Giovanni Costantino, head of The Italian Sea Group, which owns the ship maker, blamed human error for the disaster, which he said took 16 minutes. ''The ship sank because it took on water. From where, the investigators will say,'' he told RAI state television after he met with prosecutors.

Costantino cited AIS ship tracking data which he said showed the Bayesian had taken on water for four minutes when a sudden gust of wind flipped it and it continued taking on water. The ship straightened up slightly and then went down, he said.

But was it merely the case of a freak waterspout that knocked the ship to its side and allowed water to pour in through open hatches? What was the position of the keel, which on a large sailboat like the Bayesian might have been retractable to allow it to enter shallower ports?

''There's a lot of uncertainty as to whether it had a lifting keel and whether it might have been up,'' said Jean-Baptiste Souppez, a fellow of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects and the editor of the Journal of Sailing Technology. ''But if it had, then that would reduce the amount of stability that the vessel had, and therefore made it easier for it to roll over on its side,'' he said in an interview.

The captain of the sailboat that rescued survivors said his craft sustained minimal damage — the frame of a sun awning broke — even with winds that he estimated reached 12 on the Beaufort wind scale, which is the highest hurricane-strength force on the scale.

He said he had remained anchored with his engines running to try to maintain the ship's position as the forecast storm rolled in.

''Another possibility is to heave anchor before the storm and to run downwind at open sea,'' Karsten Borner said in a text message. But he said that might not have been possible for the Bayesian, given its trademark 75-meter (246-foot) tall mast.

''If there was a stability problem, caused by the extremely tall mast, it would not have been better at open sea,'' he said.

Yachts like the Bayesian are required to have watertight, sub-compartments that are specifically designed to prevent a rapid, catastrophic sinking even when some parts fill with water.

The underwater search continued in dangerous and time-consuming conditions. Because of the wreck's depth, which requires special precautions, divers working in pairs could only spend about 12 minutes at a time searching, though reinforcements outfitted with special equipment to enable longer dives were on the wreck Wednesday.

In all, some 27 divers took rotations, including four who helped with recovery after the 2012 Costa Concordia disaster off Tuscany. They called the Porticello wreck a ''little Concordia,'' fire crews said in a statement.

The limited dive time was aimed in part at avoiding decompression sickness, also known as the ''bends,'' which can occur when divers stay underwater for long periods and ascend too quickly, allowing nitrogen gas dissolved in the blood to form bubbles.

''The longer you stay, the slower your ascent has to be,'' said Simon Rogerson, the editor of SCUBA magazine. He said the tight turnaround time suggested the operation's managers were trying to limit the risks and recovery time after each dive.

''It sounds like they're operating essentially on no decompression or very tight decompression, or they're being extremely conservative,'' he said.

Divers were also working with debris floating around them, limited visibility and air tanks on their backs.

''We are trying to advance in tight spaces, but any single thing slows us down,'' said Luca Cari, spokesman for the fire rescue service. ''An electric panel could set us back for five hours. These aren't normal conditions. We're at the limit of possibility.''

Winfield reported from Rome and Kirka from London. Associated Press journalists Trisha Thomas in Rome; Andrea Rosa in Porticello; and Anika Kentish in St. John's, Antigua, contributed to this report.

This story has been corrected to reflect that Thomas was born in Canada, not Antigua.

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