The 56-metre superyacht Bayesian has been salvaged from the seabed off Sicily, ten months after it sank with the loss of seven lives.
Mike Lynch’s superyacht, Bayesian, has been resurfaced for the first time since it sank during a violent storm off the coast of Sicily in August last year, killing seven people including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah.
As The Guardian reports, the recovery operation was handled by TMC Maritime at a cost of around 30 million US dollars.
The yacht’s 72-metre high mast was first detached with a remote-controlled cutting tool before the hull was raised and loaded on to a crane barge.
It took three days to haul it up from 50 metres below, the newspaper reports.
It says the hull will be transported to the port of Termini Imerese, where investigators are expected to examine it as part of several inquiries into the cause of the sinking.
A diver died during preliminary operations several months ago which has involved up to 70 people.
The 56-metre yacht had been anchored 300 metres (980 ft) off the port of Porticello, about 15 km east of Palermo, Sicily, when it was hit by a storm on August 19th last year.
A total of 15 people survived. The seven who died were British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, whose parents were from Cork and Tipperary, and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah; his lawyer Chris Morvillo who represented him during a recent trial and his wife Neda Morvillo; Morgan Stanley International Bank chair Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy Bloomer; and the yacht’s chef Recaldo Thomas.
A number of investigations were initiated by the Italian authorities and by the British Marine Accident Investigation Branch - the yacht was registered in Britain.
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