Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht owned by the family of a British tech mogul that sank Monday off the coast of Sicily in southern Italy were working Wednesday to recover the remains of most of the six people left missing after the accident, Sicily’s civil protection agency confirmed to CBS News. Two bodies...
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Sicily yacht sinking: live update
UPDATES with more details on the search and coastgard. Divers and an underwater drone searched Wednesday for six people, including a British tech tycoon and international banker, believed trapped when a luxury yacht sank off Sicily. The six people still currently missing following the accident are: British technology tycoon Mike Lynch Hannah Lynch, Mike’s 18-year-old...
Bayesian yacht live updates: Body of UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch recovered from Sicily yacht
Waterspouts could become more common because of climate changepublished at 12:01 British Summer Time 12:01 BST Matt TaylorBBC Weather Witnesses describe seeing a waterspout form during the storm before the Bayesian yacht sank. Most of us are aware of what tornadoes are – rotating columns of destructive winds, protruding from the base of clouds down...
Body of UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch recovered from Sicily yacht
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How a waterspout may have sunk a UK tech tycoon’s yacht
The marine weather phenomenon blamed for sinking a British tech tycoon’s yacht off Sicily, known as a waterspout, may have been strengthened by unusually warm waters in the Mediterranean, experts said. The 56-metre (183-foot) “Bayesian”, being used by Mike Lynch and his wealthy guests to celebrate a court victory, disappeared into the sea within minutes...
Divers search Sicily yacht wreck with UK tech boss among the six missing
British tycoon Mike Lynch was among the 22 onboard, celebrating his recent acquittal on fraud charges in the US. Divers and an underwater drone are searching for six people, including a tech tycoon from the United Kingdom and an international banker, believed trapped when a luxury superyacht sank off Sicily. Among the six missing were...
Search continues for British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and Morgan Stanley International boss after superyacht Bayesian sinks in Sicily tornado
British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter are among six tourists missing after a luxury yacht sank in a tornado off the coast of Italy. One person is already known to have died following the yacht’s sinking off the coast of Palermo, Sicily, as the body of the vessel’s Canadian-Antiguan chef, Recaldo Thomas,...
Search continues for British tech mogul after yacht capsizes in Sicily
[KARAH RUCKER] DIVERS ARE CONTINUING THEIR SEARCH FOR SIX MISSING PEOPLE, INCLUDING BRITISH TECH ENTREPRENEUR MIKE LYNCH, AFTER A LUXURY YACHT SANK OFF SICILY’S COAST DURING A FIERCE STORM. THE 184-FOOT BRITISH-FLAGGED SUPERYACHT, CAPSIZED ON MONDAY WHILE ANCHORED NEAR PORTICELLO. THE YACHT WAS CARRYING 22 PEOPLE, INCLUDING LYNCH, HIS 18-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, AND OTHER PROMINENT FIGURES...
Son of British tech tycoon’s business partner Stephen Chamberlain vows to finish jog in his honour after he was fatally mown down by car while running
The son of a businessman who was partners with missing tech tycoon Mike Lynch has vowed to finish the run his father was doing when he was mowed down in car crash. Stephen Chamberlain, 52, was six miles into a morning run when he was hit by a vehicle on Newmarket Road in the Cambridgeshire...
Search On To Find UK Tech Tycoon, Morgan Stanley Chief After Yacht Sinks
“We didn’t see it coming,” the captain of the yacht, James Catfield, said of the storm Divers scoured the wreck of a luxury yacht off Sicily’s coast on Tuesday to find six missing people, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and a Morgan Stanley executive, following an intense storm that sank the vessel on Monday....
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Hours after it was reported that the UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch was one of the people missing in Monday’s superyacht sinking off the coast of Sicily, news of a tragic coincidence emerged. Stephen Chamberlain, 52, Lynch’s former co-defendant in a US fraud trial, in which they were both acquitted, had died in hospital after...
‘Britain’s Bill Gates’: Who is Mike Lynch, the UK tech entrepreneur missing after superyacht sinks?
Mike Lynch, 59, is the founder of enterprise software firm Autonomy. He was acquitted of fraud charges in June after defending himself in a trial over allegations that he artificially inflated Autonomy’s value in an $11.7 billion sale to tech giant Hewlett Packard. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — British technology entrepreneur...