Divers scouring the wreckage of the superyacht that sank off the Sicilian coast have found the body of the last person missing from the luxury boat, believed to be the daughter of a British tech magnate.
The body of Mike Lynch‘s 18-year-old daughter Hannah was discovered early Friday, the Italian Coast Guard said, according to the Associated Press news agency — the culmination of a challenging five-day rescue operation.
The family had been apparently celebrating his recent acquittal on fraud charges in the United States with people who defended him at trial. But the 184-foot Bayesian went down during a freak storm while anchored off the coast of Sicily’s main city Palermo early Monday.
Fifteen people were rescued, but six others were declared missing. The bodies of five of them were brought out of the ship’s wreck by the divers on Thursday, with one of them identified as Lynch. One other body, of the ship’s cook Recaldo Thomas, was recovered shortly after the accident.
As the massive search and rescue effort neared its end Friday, attention was turning to the investigation of exactly what caused the tragedy.
The accounts of survivors that have emerged through the Italian medics who treated them have suggested the sinking took place in mere minutes and came as a shock.
The local prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation, though no cause or possible suspects had been publicly identified.
Italian prosecutors investigating the case have scheduled a news conference on Saturday.
The Associated Press contributed.
