Body of tech mogul Mike Lynch among 4 recovered after superyacht sank off coast of Italy

21 days ago

Italy news, US news.

British tech tycoon Mike Lynch was among four victims recovered from the ocean Wednesday after their superyacht sank off the coast of Italy.

Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah remained unaccounted for as of Thursday.

The 59-year-old’s superyacht the Bayesian went down shortly before sunrise Monday when a powerful storm swept across the coast of Porticello, near Palermo.

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  • Fifteen passengers were pulled alive from the wreck, including Lynch’s wife.

    A massive search for the six missing passengers was launched before the bodies of Lynch; Judy and Jonathan Bloomer; Chris Morvillo, and his wife Neda Morvillo, were recovered.

    Bloomer, a non-executive chair of Morgan Stanley International, and Morvillo, a Clifford Chance lawyer, were among those invited on the yacht to celebrate his acquittal of fraud charges.

    Lynch, 59, was the co-founder of Britain’s leading enterprise software Autonomy.