Six people were missing after a yacht sank in a storm while anchored in front of Porticello, in the Palermo area of Sicily.
The Italian Coast Guard said the body of the final missing person who was onboard a superyacht that sunk off the coast of Sicily has been found in the wreckage.
The woman’s body was detected on Friday. She has not been identified, but Hannah Lynch, the 18-year-old daughter of British tech magnate Mike Lynch, is reportedly unaccounted for. They were aboard The Bayesian, a 56-metre British-flagged yacht, when it went down in a storm early Monday.
Civil protection officials said they believe the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout, and sank quickly.
Mike Lynch’s body was recovered on Thursday. He had been celebrating his recent acquittal on fraud charges with his family and the people who had defended him at trial in the United States.
His wife Angela Bacares was among the 15 survivors.
The ship, owned by Lynch’s family, overturned around 5 am on Monday off the port of Porticello, where it was apparently anchored.
It had a crew of 10 people and 12 passengers, including British, American and Canadian nationals, the Italian coast guard said. Local media said a sudden fierce storm, including tornados over water known as waterspouts, had battered the area overnight but skies were clear and seas calm by Monday morning.
The 56-metre British-flagged “Bayesian” was known for its unusually single 75-metre mast, one of the world’s tallest made of aluminium.
