British tycoon Mike Lynch’s sunken Bayesian superyacht raised towards surface ahead of final lift - 10 months after tragedy

Reuters via NY Post ^ | 6/21/25

[Libloather]

Salvage experts winched Mike Lynch’s sunken superyacht towards the surface on Friday, 10 months after it went down off the coast of Sicily, killing the British tech tycoon, his teenage daughter and five others.

The vessel is scheduled to be lifted out of the water in the final phase of the recovery on Saturday, TMC Marine, the company leading the salvage operation, said.

“Accelerated progress in salvage works off the coast of northern Sicily mean that all preparations are now nearing completion, ahead of the delicate lifting procedure,” the statement said.

The work was briefly halted last month after the death of a diver involved in the operation.

The 184-foot Bayesian was moored off the small port of Porticello, near Palermo, in August last year when it sank during a sudden storm.

The yacht was vulnerable to violent winds and was probably knocked over by gusts of more than 73 miles per hour, an interim UK report said last month.

The recovery process has been made easier after the vessel’s 236-foot mast was detached using a remote-controlled cutting tool and placed on the seabed on Tuesday.

The hull of the yacht has been supported by a specially designed steel wire lifting arrangement which is, in turn, attached to a floating lifting asset.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Outdoors; Travel
KEYWORDS: bayesian; mikelynch; palermo; porticello; sicily; superyacht; tmcmarine; tragedy; tycoon; yacht

[Libloather]

Signed up for a tycoon job on Indeed. Fingers crossed.

[Ezekiel]

Well you know what they say — a rising tide lifts all boats.

[FlipWilson]

The people on it died, a diver recovering it died.

I think I know where one can purchase a super yacht on the cheap.

[from occupied ga]

Who’d want it? Obviously design flaw in that it can’t take high wind gusts. Kind of like the WWII “ducks” that one still sometimes sees giving harbor tours today. They can’t take rough water. They drowned ever soldier that got into them on D-day and they still occasionally drown people when sudden storms come up.

[BBB333]

“Who’d want it?”

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It’s called salvage.

First on the scene of the sinking/crash owns the rights to it.

[SunkenCiv]

Basically it's being lifted because it's intact, just sank because it got a bit tipsy. Even though it's a mere 184 feet long, it'll take a while to get every nook and cranny cleared of debris, dead sealife, and the leftover smells from having been submerged. Could be a bargain for someone else in the more money than brains set.