British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been confirmed as among the dead after a superyacht sank off Sicily this week.
The Italian coastguard also said the bodies of Morgan Stanley chairman Jonathan Bloomer and US lawyer Christopher Morvillo had been recovered, along with their wives, Judy Bloomer and Neda Morvillo.
Mr Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah remains missing.
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Recaldo Thomas, the yacht’s chef, also died and was found in the hours after Monday’s early morning sinking.
The confirmation of identities comes as another body was brought up from the wreck on Thursday morning, after divers recovered four yesterday.
Mr Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, is among 15 survivors, as is a woman who survived with her one-year-old daughter.
Six people were originally missing when the UK-flagged Bayesian capsized during a storm, with a waterspout being cited as a likely cause.
The ship is now at a depth of around 50m (163ft) off Porticello near Palermo, where it had been anchored.
Jonathan Bloomer was chairman of Morgan Stanley International and Hiscox. Pic: Hiscox/Linkedin
Christopher Morvillo was a lawyer who worked on Mr Lynch’s fraud case. Pic: Clifford Chance
Divers have said navigated the wreck is hard due to a mass of debris, narrow spaces and roughly 10 minutes of useable dive time.
An underwater drone with lights is helping the operation and the search will now focus on finding the one person still unaccounted for, Hannah Lynch
Divers have recovered five bodies from the wreck in the last 24 hours. Pic: Reuters
Her 59-year-old father was nicknamed the “British Bill Gates” and had been in the headlines over a high-profile fraud case in the US.
In June, he was cleared of all charges related to the sale of his software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard in 2011.
He could have spent years in jail – but instead was celebrating his freedom along with friends including Christopher Morvillo, the lawyer who worked on his case.
As investigators look into how the sinking happened, the boss of the company that built the Bayesian told Sky News superyachts of that type are “unsinkable”.
Giovanni Costantino, CEO of The Italian Sea Group, said there were no flaws with the design and construction.
“This incident sounds like an unbelievable story, both technically and as a fact,” he said, adding their structure and keel made them “unsinkable bodies”.
Meanwhile, the brother of the man in charge of the yacht has said he is a “very good sailor” and “well respected”.
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New Zealander James Cutfield, 51, was captain of the Bayesian and previously told Italian media “we didn’t see it coming” – referring to the extreme weather.
His brother Mark said he was a “well respected” mariner who had captained luxury yachts for eight years and previously worked for a Turkish billionaire.
He told the New Zealand Herald he’d been involved in building yachts for 30 years, as well as racing dinghies in his youth.
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