Posted on 08/19/2024 12:01:39 PM PDT by dynachrome
British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch is missing after the sinking of a superyacht off the coast of Sicily, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC.
The sources, who preferred not to be named due to the sensitivity of the situation, said that Angela Bacares, Lynch’s wife, was confirmed as having been rescued.
The superyacht, called the Bayesian, capsized at around 5 a.m. local time while anchored off the coast of Porticello, a small fishing village located in the province of Palermo in Italy, according to various media reports. The vessel was reportedly struck by an unexpectedly violent storm.
At least one man has died and six others were reported missing, while 15 people were rescued including a 1-year-old baby, NBC News reported, citing local officials.
The yacht “suddenly sank” most likely “due to the terrible weather conditions,” the City Council of Bagheria said, according to NBC.
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Agreed. All my kids swam almost before they could walk. You never know when you might fall in!
My father loved boats and took our family out on his cabin cruisers into the Chesapeake Bay. Worked fine for our family of 11, even when one of us was still in diapers.
Tijeras_Slim wrote:
Things that make you go hmmmm...
Uh-huh. My first thought was she was scuttled at anchor to cover his “disappearance”. Must have been quite a storm to sink that boat at anchor. I don’t see how that was even possible. Such a waste. Insured I’m sure.
SS1
Note to Self... Do not F around with HP...
Mike Lynch, his wife Angela Bacares, daughter Hannah and 19 guests were on the Bayesian superyacht for a “victory” trip celebrating Lynch clearing his name after a lengthy legal battle that saw him extradited to the United States last year to stand trial on fraud charges related to the $11 billion sale of Autonomy, to Hewlett Packard.
After HP took an $8.8 billion haircut on the value of the company within a year, Lynch was accused of conspiring to inflate its value and wire fraud but after a trial lasting three months a jury in a federal court in San Francisco acquitted him and co-defendant Stephen Chamberlain in June of all 15 counts.
It emerged Monday that former Autonomy Vice President Chamberlain was killed two days before Lynch.
The 52-year-old died in a road accident while out running in Stretham, 76 miles northeast of London, in rural Cambridgeshire.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/08/22/italy-mike-lynch-body-recovered/8051724329822/
The chief engineer and a deckhand of Mike Lynch’s superyacht that capsized and sank off the coast of Sicily with the loss of seven lives are being investigated by Italian prosecutors for manslaughter.
Tim Parker Eaton, the ship engineer, is under suspicion of failing to protect the engine room and operating systems while Matthew Griffith, the deckhand, is being looked at because he was on night watch duty when the 184-foot Bayesian went down in a freak storm in the early hours of Aug. 19, according to a judicial source quoted by The Independent and The Guardian.
The two Britons join the captain, 51-year-old New Zealander James Cutfield, who was placed under investigation Monday, a day after prosecutors questioned him for two hours about how the vessel sank when experts said it should have been unsinkable if operated correctly.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/08/28/Italy-more-Bayesian-crew-probed/3041724853029/
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