Sunken Superyacht: Two Bodies Recovered From Wreck

The bodies of two of the six missing people from the Bayesian shipwreck have been recovered by firefighter divers.

Divers in action
Following the briefing held this morning, the dives of the firefighters’ speleo-divers have resumed, engaged in the search for the 6 missing people from the Bayesian shipwreck, the 56-meter sailing vessel that sank at dawn on Monday in front of Porticello, in the Palermo area, following a storm. The wreck of the yacht, owned by British magnate Mike Lynch who is among the missing with his daughter Hannah, lies on its starboard side, at a depth of about 50 meters. According to an initial external inspection, the hull does not have any leaks and the 75-meter-high aluminum mainmast is intact.

The divers’ attention was also drawn by the vessel’s large mobile keel, partially raised because the sailing vessel was at anchor. The draft of the so-called dead weight, which in the case of the Bayesian is about ten meters, is in fact intended to ensure stability for the vessel. The lifting of the keel could therefore have in some way favored the sudden sinking of the yacht, which according to the footage from some coastal cameras, occurred in the space of a minute. In the meantime, the cave divers, after having managed to open a passage in the hull yesterday, have already inspected the owner’s cabin but without any results. They should now continue the checks in the passenger cabins, where the six missing people could likely have been trapped. A complex operation also due to the short time available, about 12 minutes between the dive and the resurfacing, due to the necessary decompression period.

The commander was questioned
According to what the Ansa agency has learned, the interrogation of James Catfield, 51, the commander of the Bayesian, lasted over two hours. The prosecutors of the Termini Imerese Prosecutor’s Office, who have opened an investigation into the shipwreck, listened to him yesterday until late evening to reconstruct the dramatic phases of the sinking and to acquire technical details useful for the investigation. The interrogations continue today, the magistrates are questioning all the survivors inside the Domina-Zagarella resort.

“Air bubble” the last hope of the relatives
The relatives of the 6 missing in the sinking of the mega yacht Bayesian, off the coast of Sicily, are clinging to the residual hope of “an air bubble” inside the hull that could have saved the lives of their relatives. This is reported by the British media, taking up a hypothesis evoked as possible in their reconstructions by the “Italian rescuers”.
A hypothesis considered unlikely by some experts, in a climate of prevailing resignation regarding the fate of the six: the tycoon Mick Lynch, owner of the yacht, and his daughter, as well as the president of Morgan Stanley International, Jonathan Bloomer, and his wife, all four British citizens, and the American lawyer Christopher Morvillo (Lynch’s lawyer) and his wife.
A brother of Bloomer, Jeremy, interviewed by the BBC, refuses in any case to give up on the worst, at least until the bodies are recovered.
The divers’ operation is an inevitably “slow” procedure, Jeremy Bloomer acknowledged. “There may have been air pockets, but we don’t know,” he added. “That’s why it’s still time to wait and hope, keeping our fingers crossed.”