PORTICELLO, Italy: Salvage workers on Friday (Jun 20) raised a superyacht that sank off Italy during a pre-dawn storm last year, killing UK tech mogul Mike Lynch and six others.
The luxury 56m “Bayesian” was struck by a storm on Aug 19 when it was anchored off Porticello, near Palermo in Sicily.
It sank within minutes, killing Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah and five others.
The yacht, which was hit by something akin to a mini-tornado, was raised from the seabed – some 50m below the surface – on Friday, according to an AFP photographer.
TMC Marine, the salvage company overseeing the operation, cut off the yacht’s mast before lifting the vessel using a crane barge.
The Bayesian had an exceptionally tall mast, measuring 72m.
