Superyacht that sank with British tech magnate Mike Lynch on board recovered by salvage crews

A luxury superyacht with a British pavilion which Sicily flow Last year, kill Magnant of British technology Mike Lynch And six others, resurfaced on Saturday while the rescue recovery teams finalized the complex operation to bring it back to the ground for a more in -depth investigation.

The white top and the Bayesian blue hull of 184 feet were visible on the surface, but were not yet away from the sea in a zone of maintaining a yellow floating crane bar.

“The pumping of sea water will continue and it will be lunch time, following a series of lifting and rest procedures to satisfy the rescue team, before Bayessian is fully and finally out of the water,” said David Wilson, spokesperson for Maritime TMC, who leads the recovery operation.

The local coastal guard has said that the lifting operation should be concluded by the early afternoon and will be followed by certain technical tests on the hull. On Sunday, the ship will be transported to the Sicilian port of Termini Imerese, where it will be made available for investigators to determine the cause of the sinking.

The Bayesian flows on August 19 of Porticello, near Palermo, During a violent storm While Lynch dealt with friends to a cruise to celebrate her acquittal two months earlier in the United States On the accusations of fraud. Lynch, his daughter And five others died. Fifteen people survived, including the captain and all the crew members with the exception of the chief. A survivor said he had held his 1 year old child above the waves.

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TMC Maritime said that the ship had been slowly raised from the seabed, 165 feet low, in the last three days to allow straps, slings and steel uprising harnesses under the keel. The depth of the wreckage requires special precautions. It is much deeper than most recreational divers are certified. A diver deceased during a previous operation To try to raise the ship. In the the immediate consequences of the sinkingThe recovery teams could only stay for a quarter of 12 minutes. Specialized caves divers have been used to help Look for the wreckage.

Steel lifting hinges are used to support the vertical shell and to be part of a steel wire lifting system that started to raise the ship out of the water on Saturday. As it is raised, sea water is pumped out of the hull.

TMC Maritime said the ship will be held standing, out of the water, for the controls and preparations for its last trip.

The floating crane platform will then move the Bayesian towards Termini Imerese, where a special steel cradle awaits it.

The Bayesian is missing his 236 -foot mast, which was cut and left on the seabed for a future move. The mast had to be detached to allow the shell to be brought to an almost vertical position which would allow the craft machine.

British investigators declared in an interim report published last month that the yacht had been overthrown by an “extreme wind” and could not recover.

The report indicates that the Bayesian had chosen the site where he sank as shelter of the planned thunderstorms. The wind speeds exceeded 70 knots, 81 miles per hour, at the time of the sinking and “violently” overthrew the ship at an angle of 90 degrees in less than 15 seconds.

Karsten Borner, the captain of the Sir Robert Baden Powell who saved the 15 survivors who managed to enter a rescue canoe, said He was close enough to be able to see the Bayesian as the storm entered.

“A moment later, she left,” he said.

Lynch, who sold Autonomy, a software manufacturer he founded in 1996 in Hewlett-Packard for $ 11 billion in 2011, was acquitted for fraud in June 2024 by a jury of the Federal Court in San Francisco.