Bodies flown again to households after Bayesian superyacht sinking | EUROtoday

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The our bodies of those that died after the billionaire Mike Lynch’s Bayesian superyacht sunk off the coast of Sicily have been flown again to their households by personal jet.

Italian publication Sicilian Newspaper reported autopsy examinations have been accomplished at a Palermo hospital and the our bodies have now been returned.

Fifteen of the 22 passengers and crew survived the incident by clambering onto an inflatable liferaft.

But the our bodies of Mr Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah and 4 different folks have been discovered by divers on board. Post-mortem examinations counsel they’d been trapped in a room beneath deck.

Jonathan Bloomer, the worldwide chairman of Morgan Stanley Bank; his spouse Judith, a psychotherapist; Christopher Morvillo, a US lawyer; and his spouse Neda, a jewelry designer, additionally died within the sinking.

The physique of the yacht’s chef, Recaldo Thomas, was additionally recovered floating close to the wreckage.

The Bayesian was hit by a suspected “downburst” of sturdy wind early on 19 August. The 56m-long, £30 million yacht drifted for about 400 metres from its anchorage close to the fishing port of Porticello earlier than sinking.

It was additionally reported Italian Navy divers have recovered video surveillance tools from the wreckage of the Bayesian superyacht that might clarify the way it sank.

Several extremely specialised divers from the Italian navy’s particular forces Comsubin unit are actually combing the wreckage, which is round 50 metres underwater, on behalf of prosecutors investigating the sinking.

They recovered components of the deck, pc materials, video surveillance methods, arduous drives and varied different tools on Thursday.

The electronics faraway from the yacht will now be despatched to a laboratory exterior Italy to infer whether or not they’re nonetheless readable after sitting for weeks underwater.

A prosecutor in Termini Imerese in Sicily has additionally positioned the captain of the yacht and two British crew members underneath investigation. This doesn’t essentially imply fees will observe.