Mike Lynch’s Daughter Among Missing After Superyacht Disaster Off Sicily

The 18-year-old daughter of tech mogul Mike Lynch is still being looked for by Italian police after a superyacht sank in a storm off the coast of Sicily. Lynch, among the five survivors, was on the Bayesian yacht when it sank Monday.

Five bodies—including Jonathan Bloomer, his wife Judith, lawyer Christopher Morvillo and his wife Neda—have been recovered according to the Italian Coast Guard. Hannah Lynch is still missing, nevertheless, and search for her is continuous using underwater vehicles and divers over the debris.

Early Monday’s capsizing of the boat resulted in the discovery of four passenger bodies by Wednesday. One of the dead was characterized as a “heavily-built man”. While fifteen other passengers survived the catastrophe, the cook of the yacht, Recaldo Thomas, was declared deceased earlier in the week.

It is yet unknown what remains of a female passenger. Head of Sicily’s civil protection service Salvatore Cocina underlined that the search for the missing sixth passenger still has first importance.

The accident has rocked Mike Lynch’s close group of friends. Given Lynch’s passing date, lastminute.com CEO Brent Hoberman—a close friend—described the occurrence as a “Shakespearean tragedy”. Lynch had lately been cleaning his name following a twelve-year court fight.

Lynch’s Autonomy co-founder David Tabizel honored his late buddy on social media by referring to him as a “genius” and a “giant of a man.”