Sicily divers seek last missing from UK tycoon shipwreck

PORTICELLO: Searches resumed Thursday for the last person missing after a superyacht carrying UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch sank off Sicily, with divers recovering a fifth body from the wreck.

Specialist divers working with an underwater robot on Wednesday pulled up four bodies from the wreck of the “Bayesian”, while another was pulled up on Thursday morning, according to AFP reporters.

The grim discovery brings the death toll so far to six, after the body of a man believed to be the yacht’s chef was found shortly after the ship went down in a storm before dawn on Monday.

There was no official identification of the bodies, but Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah were among the six passengers missing.

The 56-metre (185 feet) British-flagged sailing boat had been anchored some 700 metres off Porticello, near Palermo on the north of the Italian island, when it was struck by a waterspout — akin to a mini-tornado.

It sank within minutes.

Fifteen people were rescued, including Lynch’s wife and a woman with a one-year-old baby.