Search teams made the tragic discoveries while scouring through the ruins of the luxury sailboat in coast of Sicily. The Chief of Civil Protection have confirmed two bodies were identified as British tech billionaire Mr Lynch and his daughter.
Bayesian yacht sinking latest: Hannah Lynch remains lost at seaBritish tech tycoon Mike Lynch is among the five bodies recovered from the wreck of the £30 million superyacht that sank in a storm off the coast of Sicily.
The Italian Coastguard is working on the theory she is still on the vessel, although Mr Mariani said there is a possibility she could have been thrown into the sea as the boat sank. It brings the total number of confirmed deaths to six after the body of Recaldo Thomas was discovered on the day of the sinking
In a further twist of fate, it emerged this afternoon Mr Lynch had put the doomed vessel up for sale in March but withdrew it from the market after he was acquitted in one of the biggest ever fraud cases, according to industry sources. Nick Barke, head of salvage operations at Boats.co.uk, said that the 'only real way of knowing' why the yacht sank will be to lift it to the surface, but that would be 'expensive and complicated process', likely to involve a crane barge.
The fifth body was discovered late last night, but dive teams were unable to bring it to shore before night fell. Mr Lynch was also a member of the Create The Change fundraising board, set up by Cancer Research UK and which helped fund the building of the Francis Crick Institute. TODAY: Salvatore Cocina, the head of Sicily's civil protection agency, said searches are resuming this morning, and there will be an investigation in due courseBritish tech tycoon Mike Lynch with his wife Angela Bacares, who survived the disasterAn ambulance carries the fifth body recovered from the waters this morning off the coast of Porticello
Today, the children's charity's chairman Neil Berkett paid tribute to the 70-year-old and his wife Judy. 'It's dark. It's a platform that they've never been inside before, and they're having to recover bodies. That's huge amounts of psychological stress for those for those divers.'Body bags were seen being taken to the port of Porticello on Wednesday afternoon, with the process of bringing the fifth body to shore being described by Mr Cocina as 'ongoing'.
The head of Palermo Emergency Medical Services, Dr Fabio Genco, told the BBC that there had been 'apocalyptic' scenes in the aftermath of the sinking. Read More Heroic effort went from rescue mission to recovery operation as authorities recovered four bodies He added: 'Unfortunately in the face of death and the face of life there is no difference between rich and poor, between nobles and commoners.'
The Italian Sea Group has also dismissed speculation the enormous 264ft mast was to blame and says only a massive entry of water could have caused it to sink. Speaking to New Zealand media, Mr Cutfield's brother Mark said his sibling was a 'very good sailor' with eight years of experience working abroad on luxury yachts
He told Sky News: 'We couldn't see them any more and they disappeared from the radar, we were busy keeping our own ship sailing.He said it was only when the tender set out that they found the life raft.
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