How Did the Super Yacht Sink?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at the rescue operation following the sinking of a luxury yacht off the coast off Sicily.

Six people are still missing, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, after the Bayesian sank on Monday. Why are rescue divers struggling to reach the yacht’s cabins? What freak weather conditions caused the ship to sink?

Mark Lowen, BBC Rome correspondent, joins Adam from Sicily where he’s reporting on the rescue efforts. Katie Prescott, technology business editor at The Times, discusses Mike Lynch’s technology career. And, Matt Taylor explains the storm conditions in Sicily that led to the tragedy.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, we've learned more details about the sinking of the super yacht
0:09.2	off the coast of Sicily, which was owned by the British technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch, and we've also
0:15.8	learned more about the search for survivors.
0:19.0	So we're going to focus on that in this episode of Newscast. Newscast.
0:22.8	Newscast from the BBC.
0:24.8	The exit poll is predicting a labor landslide.
0:28.2	We did it!
0:29.2	And before you know it, you have a bright future behind you.
0:32.1	I really don't know what he said at the end of their sentence.
0:34.0	Joe, you did such a great job.
0:36.0	You answered every question.
0:38.0	Take me down to Downey Street.
0:40.0	Let's go have a tour.
0:41.0	Blimey.
0:42.0	Hello, it's Adam in the studio, and we are recording this episode. Let's go have a tour. Blimey.
0:43.0	Hello, it's Adam in the studio and we are recording this episode of newscast just after six o'clock on Tuesday,
0:48.0	so it reflects the situation as we know it at this point.
0:52.0	And as I said, we're going to focus on the details we've learned around
0:56.7	the sinking of the super yacht, the Bayesian, which was owned by the British tech entrepreneur
1:02.3	Mike Lynch, who is still missing along with his
1:05.2	18 year old daughter and several other members of the party who were on the boat with him.
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