- Search focuses on missing teen Hannah Lynch
- Superyacht sinking claims six lives
- Survivors include Mike Lynch’s wife
The hunt will now focus on Mr Lynch’s adolescent daughter, who has yet to be found following the tragedy.
Mike Lynch, a British IT entrepreneur, has been confirmed as one of the dead after a superyacht sank off Sicily this week.
The Italian coastguard also reported that Morgan Stanley chairman Jonathan Bloomer and US lawyer Chris Morvillo, as well as their wives Judy Bloomer and Neda Morvillo, had been found dead.
Mr Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah is still missing.
The yacht’s cook, Recaldo Thomas, also died and was discovered shortly after the vessel sank early Monday morning.
The confirmation of names comes after another fatality was found from the disaster on Thursday in a blue body bag, following the discovery of four the day before.
Mr Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, is among the 15 survivors, as is a British woman who survived with her baby while resting on deck.
Six individuals were reported missing after the UK-flagged Bayesian overturned during a storm.
The ship is lying at a depth of about 50 metres (164 feet) off Porticello, near Palermo, where it was anchored.
Divers have reported difficulty navigating the wreck due to debris, darkness, tiny areas, and only a 12-minute window for each drop.
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The search will now focus on finding Hannah Lynch, the only person remaining unaccounted for.
Her 59-year-old father was known as the “British Bill Gates” and had recently made news in the United States for a high-profile fraud case.
In June, he was exonerated of all charges stemming from the 2011 sale of his software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard.
He could have spent years in jail but instead celebrated his release with pals, including Christopher Morvillo, a lawyer who worked on his case.
Mr Lynch’s co-founder at Autonomy, David Tabizel, remarked, “It appears that we have lost our dear Dr Mike Lynch.” RIP. The world has lost a genius. His family has lost a behemoth of a man.
As investigators enquire into how the sinking occurred, the CEO of the firm that constructed the Bayesian told that superyachts of that sort are “unsinkable”.
The Italian Sea Group’s CEO, Giovanni Costantino, stated that the design and construction were flawless.
“This incident sounds like an unbelievable story, both technically and as fact,” he added, adding that their structure and keel made them “unsinkable bodies”.
Meanwhile, the yacht’s captain’s brother has stated that he is a “very good sailor” and “well respected”.
New Zealander James Cutfield, 51, was the Bayesian’s captain and earlier told Italian media that “we didn’t see it coming” in regard to the severe weather.
His brother Mark described him as a “well respected” mariner with eight years of experience captaining luxury yachts and previously working for a Turkish millionaire.
He told the New Zealand Herald that he’d been building boats for 30 years and had previously raced dinghies competitively.
