The small life raft up close in Porticello harbour Reuters The emergency device was used to rescue 11 people from the wreck The Bayesian sailing boat, in Palermo, Sicily Angela Bacares with her husband British tech billionaire Mike Lynch
And top New York lawyer Chris Morvillo, a solicitor at major firm Clifford Chance who worked for Mike Lynch, and his wife Neda, were also lost at sea.
The search for those feared dead entered its second day today with dramatic footage showing firefighters and divers scouring the water.
Specialist divers have been deployed from the UK government’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch to help.
Although the 184ft yacht is lying “practically intact” on its side at the bottom of the sea, rescuers have been struggling to get into it.
Diver Marco Tilotta said there was a “world of objects” including furniture and debris obstructing the narrow stairs in front of the yacht cabins.
He said of the missing on Tuesday morning: “We will do everything we can to recover the bodies.
“The weather conditions are worsening but we hope to continue the operations without problems”.
A shell-shocked Angela told Italian outlet La Repubblica that she and her husband woke up at around 4am on Monday to a sudden shift onboard the superyacht.
The mum, who suffered horrific injuries to both feet, told the Italian outlet of the “slight tilt” she felt before tragedy struck.
She reportedly told Corriere that “everything was falling” around her and she was almost “carried away” before she managed to escape to safety.
Her husband Lynch, previously dubbed “the British Bill Gates”, was hosting a party on the boat.
The business tycoon – worth an estimated £852million – was surrounded by members of his legal firm and company Invoke Capital to celebrate a US jury clearing him of fraud earlier this summer.
He was extradited to the US in 2023 over the £8.5billion sale of his software firm Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard in 2011 and was accused of inflating the company’s value.
The dad-of-two had spent a year under house arrest in the States.
He was cleared of 16 counts of wire fraud, securities fraud and conspiracy, following a trial in San Francisco in June.
Charlotte Golunski, 35, was also rescued with her one-year-old baby Rescuers at the scene of the wreckage today, hunting for the missing Reuters
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