Superyacht sinks: What do we know?
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🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Among those still lost are British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, the chairman of investment bank Morgan Stanley International Jonathan Bloomer, and Chris Morvillo, a lawyer at Clifford Chance.
It's believed the yacht was struck by a sudden and powerful storm in the early hours of Monday morning.
Mike Lynch, known by some as the "British Bill Gates", was recently cleared after a high-profile fraud trial relating to the $11bn sale of his software giant Autonomy to US company Hewlett Packard.
Niall Paterson speaks to our correspondent in Sicily, Ashna Hurynag, to hear about the causes of the yacht's sinking and the investigation into what happened.
Plus, Danny Fortson, West Coast correspondent for The Sunday Times, talks about interviewing Mike Lynch only a few weeks ago.
Producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse, Laura FitzPatrick
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Daily. I'm Neil Patterson. And every day at 5pm, we take a properly in-depth look at one of the biggest stories of the day with the help of the Sky reporters and analysts who are covering it. We want to hear from you as well. You can email me and the team Sky Newsdaily at Sky.com. You can also find me on X and Instagram at Sky News News Neal for those. Do give us a follow so you never miss an episode. |
| 0:23.3 | Today though we are off to Sicily. In the wee hours of Monday morning a multi-million pound yacht |
| 0:28.3 | with 22 people on board sank off the coast of the Italian island. It's been suggested a typhoon, |
| 0:35.0 | a water spout was responsible. Certainly we know the Bayesian sank very |
| 0:40.2 | quickly in awful weather. Fifteen were rescued. One body has been recovered, but some remain |
| 0:46.4 | missing, including British billionaire Mike Lynch. And we'll hear much more about Mike Lynch |
| 0:51.2 | a little later on when I'll be speaking to one US-based journalist who |
| 0:55.3 | interviewed them just a handful of weeks ago. But in Sicily, For us, our correspondent Ashna Hurunak, |
| 1:00.4 | Ashna, just bring us up to date with the very latest. You're in Porticello, just east of |
| 1:05.0 | Palermo, where I imagine an awful lot of the search and rescue operation has been being |
| 1:09.9 | conducted. There is an awful lot of activity here, Neil, just to paint a picture for people who are |
| 1:15.2 | listening, Porticello is a stunning, beautiful fishing village. It's only about 30 minutes |
| 1:20.6 | drive away from Palermo, the capital of Sicily. And people here, if you're visiting |
| 1:24.9 | Sicily, you might take a day trip here. There are lots of boat cruises in and out all of the time. |
| 1:31.2 | And the marina is absolutely chocker block full of not only tourist boats and yachts and cruises, |
| 1:36.7 | but more so fishermen. |
| 1:39.0 | Fishing is a huge industry here. |
| 1:41.2 | And it's pretty much a gorgeous place to come and visit during the summer. |
| 1:44.7 | And so it's no wonder that if you are taking a trip around the med, it's one of those |
| 1:49.0 | places that you would naturally pull into. And that's exactly what this particular super |
| 1:53.9 | yacht and passengers on board had been doing. You talk there about the search and rescue operation. |
| 1:59.0 | It is very much ongoing today. |
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