The search for those missing in the shipwreck that occurred yesterday morning in Palermo, in the sea of Bagheria, resumed this morning with the help of the firefighters of Cagliari and Sassari, where the Bayesian, a 56-meter sailing boat flying the flag of the United Kingdom, sank in a flash dragging into the water the 12 passengers and 10 crew members, some of whom did not have time to leave their cabins. The firefighters' divers have opened a passage in the wreck, the boat is located at a depth of over 50 meters.
15 people were rescued, one man, the ship's cook Ricardo Thomas, died and his body was recovered, six other people are missing: four British and two Americans . Among them also the British tycoon Mike Lynch, 59 years old with his eighteen-year-old daughter Hannah and the president of Morgan Stanley International Jonathan Bloomer .
Lynch is co-founder of the multinational IT company Autonomy, founder of Invoke Capital and the cybersecurity company Darktrace and is known as the 'British Bill Gates'. The sailing yacht is reportedly registered to the company Revtom, registered on the Isle of Man, whose director is said to be the tycoon's wife, Angela Bacares, who is among those rescued. The guests are said to be employees of Lynch's companies on a prize trip . The search for the missing has begun from above, with some aircraft, while the divers of the Coast Guard of Messina and the speleo divers of the Fire Department from Rome, Sassari and Cagliari will go to the seabed at a depth of 50 meters, where the Bayesian lies.
A British passenger, Charlotte Golunski, 35 , managed to grab her one-year-old daughter Sofia in the sea and save her. Both are fine, as is the child's father, James Emsilie, 35. The woman recounts those terrible moments: " For two seconds I lost my child in the water, then I immediately hugged her again amid the fury of the waves. I held her tightly, close to me, while the sea was stormy. Many were screaming. Luckily the lifeboat inflated and 11 of us managed to get on board. It was terrible. In a few minutes the boat was hit by a very strong wind and sank shortly after."
