2024-08-20 15:24:44
The prosecutor will hear the survivors this afternoon
The chief prosecutor of Termini Imerese, Ambrogio Cartosio, is expected to go to the Domina-Zagarella resort in Santa Flavia (Palermo) this afternoon to hear the survivors, guests of the facility, of the sinking of the sailing ship Bayesian, which sank shortly before dawn yesterday due to a violent whirlwind that caused damage along the coastal strip. The Termini Imerese prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation to ascertain the dynamics of the shipwreck.
2024-08-20 14:22:39
British Ambassador: ‘A particularly touching situation’
“I spoke to the survivors. The investigations are being conducted by the Italian authorities, we have sent our officials from the United Kingdom. The situation is particularly touching.” This was told to journalists by the British ambassador to Italy Ed Llewellyn after meeting the survivors.
2024-08-20 13:45:46
Divers open a hole in the hull
Divers from the Fire Department and the Port Authority have managed to open a hole in the hull of the Bayesian. Not an easy task at 50 meters deep. Through this hole, the divers should be able to enter the vessel where the bodies of the six people who are still missing are believed to be trapped.
2024-08-20 13:00:55
Firefighters: «Complex operations, obstacles and narrow passages»
The fire brigade’s cave divers resumed their dives this morning around 8 am to search for the six missing people following the sinking of the vessel yesterday off the coast of Porticello in Palermo. In the last dive carried out late yesterday evening, the fire brigade’s divers managed to access the inside of the wreck, inspecting some rooms located under the control bridge. The operations were complex due to the presence of numerous obstacles and the narrowness of the access points. The fire brigade’s diving teams are made up of two specialized cave divers who have a time at depth of 12 minutes before surfacing and continuous change with a subsequent team. Operations are being planned to open easier access points on the wreck for penetration inside, while access to the cabins is proceeding with difficulty, where it is possible to assume, given the time of the shipwreck, the presence of the missing people. It is impossible to verify their presence inside through the portholes. In parallel, surface searches continue in the area of the shipwreck, also with a helicopter and a firefighter’s boat.
2024-08-20 11:37:03
Firefighters: Sailing vessel appears intact and without tears
«The sailing ship lies on its side on the bottom, it appears intact and without any tears».
Thus the inspector of the Palermo Fire Brigade diving unit Marco Tilotta speaking about the search for the missing. “Our primary objective is to be able to penetrate the vessel, but it will not be easy given the depth of 50 meters”. 2024-08-20 09:47:02
The names of the missing
The six missing in the sinking of the sailboat Bayesian are Jonathan Bloomer, the chairman of Morgan Stanley International, his wife Anne Elizabeth Judith Bloomer, British entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter Hanna, Lynch’s lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Nada.
2024-08-20 09:38:00
Doctor: Little Sophie had a peaceful night
Peaceful night for little Sophie, the one-year-old girl who survived the sinking of the British sailing ship in Porticello (Palermo). The little girl is hospitalized, as a precaution, at the children’s hospital in Palermo. “She slept all night,” explains to Adnkronos Dr. Domenico Cipolla, who heads the department. Yesterday the little girl spent the whole day in her mother Charlotte’s arms. Even the President of the Sicilian region, Renato Schifani, wanted to greet the mother and the little girl yesterday afternoon to check on their health. Yesterday the woman said she managed to pull the little girl from the waves, immediately after the shipwreck. Charlotte Golunsky, 35, was on the sailing ship with her husband James Emsilie, 35, and their little daughter. Her husband was also saved, even though he has wounds and various abrasions on his body.
2024-08-20 09:33:11
Three teams of divers in action
Three teams of divers are engaged in the search for the six missing from the shipwreck of the Bayesian sailing vessel, which sank at dawn yesterday in Porticello. Two from the coast guard and one from the fire brigade. Some helicopters and patrol boats are also engaged in searching the area of the shipwreck to search for the six missing, three men and three women.
2024-08-20 09:32:55
Search for six missing persons resumed
The search for the six missing people from the wreck of the Bayesian sailing ship, which sank at dawn yesterday in Porticello, resumed this morning. The teams of speleo-divers from the fire brigade, who arrived yesterday from Rome, Sassari and Cagliari, are preparing their equipment to resume inspections of the wreck, which lies at a depth of about 50 metres. Yesterday, the divers recovered the body of a member of the crew, the cook Ricardo Tomas, but were unable to go beyond the bridge due to the presence of furnishings that obstructed the passage. The bodies of the missing people may have remained trapped inside the vessel. Among them are the British tycoon and owner of the yacht Mike Lynch, his eighteen-year-old daughter Hannah, the president of Morgan Stanley International Jonathan Bloomer with his wife and Lynch’s lawyer, Chris Morvillo with his wife Nada. Another 15 people, including passengers and crew, were rescued immediately after the shipwreck.