A video broadcast by the RAI Sicilia news show the moment of the sinking of the luxury super yacht Bayesian in the Mediterranean Sea, hit by a devastating waterspout. Of the 22 people on board, One died, 15 were rescued and six are still missing, including British tycoon Mike Lynch and Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer.
The csurveillance cameras of a house located on the shore of the island of Sicily filmed the boat in the middle of the storm, which could be seen a short distance from the coast by the lights of its imposing 75-metre-high mast.
The intensity of the rain causes the images to become increasingly less clear and The yacht’s lights dim until they disappear completely..
It is estimated that it was the moment of the sinking, off the port of Porticello.
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Images of the Bayesian off the coast of Porticello are circulating on social media.
“In just 60 seconds the ship is seen disappearing. “By chance, after hearing the news, I looked at the cameras, my children asked me to. You can see very well what was happening. Nothing could be done, the yacht disappeared in a very short time,” the owner of the house where the video was taken told RAI.
The tragedy occurred at around 5am on Monday. The British-flagged super yacht was anchored about 200 metres from the coast when a waterspout (similar to a tornado) hit it during a storm of wind and rain. Due to the violence of the weather phenomenon, broke the main mast, which would have caused the boat to become unbalanced, which turned over and sank, according to witnesses.
“We didn’t see it coming,” “The ship’s captain, James Catfield, told the media briefly after being rescued. There were 10 crew members and 12 passengers on board.
The first to rescue the shipwrecked were the crew of a ship that was near the Bayesian. “The wind was strong, very strong. I saw the main mast of the sailboat break and the water fall. Everything happened very quickly,” “We rescued the survivors, including a little girl, and then the coastguard units arrived,” said the German commander, Karsten Börner, who rushed to the rescue after seeing an emergency flare.
Charlotte Golunski, 35, a partner in one of Lynch’s companies, was one of the survivors.
This is how he described the moment of the super-sailboat’s collapse: “It only lasted a few minutes, The ship first began to rock and then stood upright. Everything fell on top of us and suddenly I was in the sea. I lost my daughter for two seconds, but I grabbed her again in the midst of the raging waves. I held her very tightly against me. Everyone was screaming and meanwhile the ship disappeared into the black waves.“.
The Bayesian was carrying 12 passengers and 10 crew members when it sank.
Complicated search
A team of specialized divers continued this Tuesday without success with the search for the six missing. Trained to operate in tight spaces, three rescuers descended with oxygen tanks to the place where the boat lies, about 50 meters deep.
The complications are many. The divers, who only have 10 minutes to search before being forced to surface, say that “There is a world of objects” blocking access to the rooms of the 56-metre-long ship.
The bodies of the missing could be in the cabins, two American citizens and four English citizens according to official information.
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Italian rescuers are carrying out a renewed search for six people, including British technology tycoon Mike Lynch and the chairman of Morgan Stanley International, who have been missing since their yacht capsized off the Italian island of Sicily.
In addition to billionaire Mike Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah has not yet been found; Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy; and Clifford Chance’s lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda, a New York jewelry designer.
The passengers of the Bayesian were guests of Lynch, whose wife Angela Bacares is among those rescued. The 59-year-old tycoon, a technology investor considered the British Bill Gates, He had organised the pleasure trip on the super-sailboat to celebrate his acquittal in a trial In the United States, he was accused of fraud worth $11 billion, linked to the sale of his software company Autonomy.
