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The betterment of a superyacht that sank a twelvemonth agone disconnected nan Sicilian coast was temporarily halted Saturday pursuing nan decease of a master diver while moving underwater, a spokesperson for nan institution overseeing nan cognition said.
U.K. tech magnate Mike Lynch, his daughter, and five others died successful August after a powerful storm slammed nan Bayesian and h2o submerged nan luxury alloy that had lain astatine 49 meters (160 feet) beneath nan surface.
“We are saddened to corroborate nan tragic decease of a master diver while doing underwater activity earlier coming (Friday),” said David Wilson, spokesperson for nan British-based TMC Marine, successful an emailed statement.
He besides said authorities started an investigation and “all parties are offering their afloat cooperation.”
The Palermo Port Authority, successful complaint of nan investigation, declined to remark connected nan origin of nan diver’s decease erstwhile contacted by The Associated Press.
The section prosecutor’s agency has besides sealed disconnected nan area wherever nan 39-year-old Dutch diver died, section media reported.
Marine salvage experts began activity successful early May to refloat nan vessel from nan seabed disconnected nan Sicilian larboard of Porticello, importing 1 of nan astir powerful maritime cranes successful Europe from Rotterdam.
The scheme was to trim nan yacht’s 75-meter (246-foot) aluminum mast — nan 2nd tallest successful nan world — to let nan hull to beryllium brought to nan aboveground much easily.
It was thought initially that nan cognition would return from 20 to 25 days to salvage nan yacht, but now it is unclear when nan Bayesian’s analyzable betterment could beryllium resumed.
What to cognize aft a tornado sank nan yacht Bayesian disconnected nan seashore of Sicily:
- A superyacht capsized disconnected nan seashore of Sicily aft a tornado deed nan area early Monday, sidesplitting 7 passengers.
- British tech tycoon Mike Lynch was identified arsenic 1 of nan bodies pulled from nan wreckage. His teenage daughter, Hannah, was nan last 1 to beryllium recovered.
- Lynch — known arsenic “Britain’s Bill Gates” — had invited guests from Clifford Chance, a ineligible patient that represented him, and Invoke Capital, his ain company, connected nan voyage, according to the Telegraph.
- Security camera footage changeable from 650 feet from wherever the Bayesian sank Monday shows it disappearing.
- A rare and unexpected “black swan” upwind arena may person led to the Bayesian’s speedy demise, maritime experts say.
Dutch-based companies HEBO, a maritime services institution from Rotterdam, and SMIT Salvage lead nan salvage cognition connected tract pinch support from Italian specialists.
The 56-meter (183-foot)-long, 473-ton yacht sank during what appears to person been a abrupt downburst, aliases localized powerful upwind from a thunderstorm that spreads quickly aft hitting nan surface.
Prosecutors are investigating the skipper and 2 unit members for imaginable work successful nan sinking.
In summation to Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, Morgan Stanley International Chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife, Judy, lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife, Neda, and nan ship’s cook, Recaldo Thomas, died successful nan shipwreck.
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