Divers resume search for 6 missing when yacht sank off Sicily, including tech magnate Mike Lynch
The Peninsula
Pooticello, Sicily: Police divers resumed searching Tuesday for six people believed trapped in the hull of a superyacht that sank in a storm off Sicil...
Pooticello, Sicily: Police divers resumed searching Tuesday for six people believed trapped in the hull of a superyacht that sank in a storm off Sicily, including a British tech magnate recently acquitted of fraud charges, his lawyer and a key defense witness at trial.
The resting place of the luxury sailboat, off Porticello, is some 50 meters (164 feet) underwater - a depth that requires special precautions: Rescue crews said they were working in 12-minute shifts, a measure that slowed down their work to reach the cramped inside of the wreck.
The Bayesian, a 56-meter (184-foot) British-flagged luxury yacht, was moored about a kilometer (a half-mile) off Ponticello 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.
Fifteen of the 22 people aboard survived, including a mother who reported holding her 1-year-old baby over the waves to save her.
