Captain James Catfield, who piloted the 184-foot, British-flagged luxury yacht, was among the 15 crew members and passengers to survive after the tornado struck Monday before sunrise.
“We didn’t see it coming,” Catfield told Italian newspaper La Repubblica from the hospital, where he was limping due to an injury.
The captain of the doomed superyacht that sank off the coast of Italy said no one on board realized a tornado was coming. VIGILI DEL FUOCO HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
One person died and six people remain missing. Perini Navi
Morvillo, 59, helped Lynch, the owner of the capsized luxury boat, win his fraud trial earlier this year.
Lynch had invited guests from the legal firm that represented him, Clifford Chance, and Invoke Capital, his own company, on the voyage, according to the Telegraph .
The boat left the Sicilian port of Milazzo on Aug. 14 and was last tracked east of Palermo on Sunday evening, according to vessel tracking app Vesselfinder.
The six people unaccounted for will continue to be referred to as “missing” until they are located in the wreckage. ALBIT / SplashNews.com
Police divers continued their search for the missing passengers Tuesday, focusing on an area some 164 feet underwater, where officials believe people may be trapped.
The search thus far has been slow because the Bayesian sits 50 meters below the surface, where divers can only stay for 12 minutes at a time, fire rescue officials said Tuesday.
Fire officials have said the six people unaccounted for will be referred to as “missing” until they are located in the wreckage.
With Post wires
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