2024-08-21 14:46:15
A rainstorm caused “Bayesian” to sink overnight from Sunday to Monday. Four people are still missing.
Published on 08/20/2024 11:25
Updated 21/08/2024 16:58
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Search and rescue efforts by Italian Coast Guard command teams following the sinking of a boat off the coast of Palermo, Sicily (Italy), August 19, 2024. (ALBERTO LO BIANCO / ANADOLU / AFP)
Research continues. Emergency services tried on Wednesday August 21 to find those missing after the sinking of a pleasure boat on Monday off the coast of Porticello in Sicily (Italy). Twenty-two passengers and crew members were on board the ship 56 meters long baptism Bayesian and flew the British Flag. The ship was hit by a storm during the night from Sunday to Monday, according to the Italian coast guard. He left the port of Milazzo on August 14 and sailed around the Aeolian Islands. One body was recovered on Monday and two more on Wednesday. A total of fifteen people were rescued and four are still missing. Here’s what we know about what happened.
There was a shipwreck in the rain
The ship sank around 5 a.m. Sunday night, according to the Italian coast guard. Strong winds and a real flood hit the coast, causing material damage to coastal establishments. Like most media, too BBCThis area is traversed by water, a column of air and rotating water. “We didn’t see the storm coming.”told the Italian daily A republic Captain James Catfield, who was taken to the emergency room in Termini. “I was at home when I saw the stormexplained Pietro Asciutto, a fisherman from Porticello, to the Italian press Ansa. I saw the ship, which had only one mast, which was very large. I saw that it sank suddenly.”
Karsten Borner, the captain of another boat who was standing nearby during the storm, said that a small boat had arrived. “A very strong typhoon” and that he had to fight for his vehicle to stay. Suddenly, “we noticed that the boat behind us had disappeared”he told type. “We found this lifeboat (…) with a small child and the master’s wife”he added.
Several traders are missing
A total of fifteen people were rescued and seven are currently missing – one crew member and six passengers. The body of one of the seven who were lost was found in the shipwreck. The ship’s 12 passengers are from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Ireland and they occupy six suites on board. bayesian, Report the Guard. Most of the passengers are relatives of the English engineer Mike Lynch, the owner of the ship and who is among the missing, the director of the Sicilian Civil Protection, Salvo Cocina, told AFP.
This 59-year-old businessman, the founder of software developer Autonomy, is one of the most famous English technology entrepreneurs. In recent years, he has been talked about for an investigation in a fraud case linked to the sale of his software to the American group HP for 11 billion US dollars in 2011. He was acquitted in June in San Francisco (United States) . ).
His daughter Hannah, 18, was also missing, but his wife, Angela Bacares, was rescued and admitted to a local hospital with minor injuries, an AFP reporter noted. THE chairman of the board of directors of the bank International Morgan Stanley, Jonathan Bloomer, and lawyer Chris Morvillo are also missing.
The investigation is still ongoing
On Monday, the sun returned, allowing rescue teams to conduct searches on calm seas involving helicopters and translators around the shipwreck, located 50 meters deep. The emergency services found only one body, that of the ship’s cookexplained Italian public television Rai. Rescuers estimate that the rest of the missing are in the boat, reports said Ansa. But the debris prevented the ability to explore the ship further on Monday. So the search began again on Tuesday morning. Two other bodies were found early Thursday afternoon in the wreckage. At this stage, they have not been identified.
UAn investigation was opened, under the control of the Judicial Authority of Termini Imerese.
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