Only one person, reported missing after the shipwreck, has yet to be found. It is already known who the recovered bodies belong to.
The bodies of five people reported missing following the sinking of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s yacht on Monday in Sicily, Italy, have already been identified. These bodies have been located and recovered over the last few days, with one person still missing.
The Italian coastguard has confirmed that Mike Lynch is among the dead. The other bodies recovered belong to Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, his wife Anne Elizabeth, lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Nada.
Bloomer, 70, is British and has served on the board of directors of several companies, while Morvillo has worked on several corruption cases and was New York district attorney from 1999 to 2005. Morvillo also took part in the criminal investigation into the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in New York.
The person who is still missing is Mike Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter, Hannah Lynch.
According to several British media outlets, tycoon Mike Lynch, who was also known as the ‘British Bill Gates’, had organized the cruise to celebrate with his family, friends and lawyers his acquittal in June in a US fraud case relating to the sale of his software company to Hewlett-Packard in 2011.
It should be noted that after the shipwreck, the first report was that seven people were missing. However, hours later the first body was found – the ship’s cook, Recaldo Thomas, a Canadian born on the island of Antigua.
The British-flagged yacht ‘Bayesian’ sank on Monday off the coast of the town of Porticello during a heavy storm when 22 people were on board, 12 passengers and 10 crew. Fifteen were rescued alive by the coastguard, including a one-year-old child.
The search for and recovery of the bodies has been hampered by the depth and position of the yacht, but also by the limited autonomy of the divers, who have been supported since Wednesday by an underwater robot.
Meanwhile, the Termini-Imerese Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation into what happened on Monday night and questioned the yacht’s captain, James Catfield, a 51-year-old New Zealander and one of the survivors, for more than two hours in a hotel.
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