(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 23 - The body of the seventh and last
victim of Monday's freak sinking of British tech magnate Mike
Lynch's Bayesian super-yacht, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah,
was located at the wreck near Palermo on Friday.
Divers recovered the young woman's body and brought it up to the
surface.
All seven bodies will now be taken to a morgue for autopsies
amid reports that negligent-manslaughter charges may be brought
in the incident.
Mike Lynch's body was recovered Thursday.
Four bodies were recovered by divers on Wednesday: Jonathan
Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, his wife Anne
Elizabeth, Lynch's lawyer Chris Morvillo and the latter's wife
Nada.
The body of chef Recaldo Thomas was recovered on Monday.
The Bayesian went down in a matter of minutes after being hit by
a freak water spout at dawn Monday.
Hannah Lynch had just won a place at Oxford University.
She was a model student, a lover of books and poetry, who after
graduating from one of the UK's most exclusive schools was
preparing to enter Oxford.
Mike Lynch, 59, once dubbed the British Bill Gates, had taken
friends and family on a cruise in the Bayesian in order to
celebrate the end of a 12-year legal ordeal stemming from the
billion-dollar sale of his tech company to Hewlett Packard.
The Bayesian, with 22 people on board, sank after a tornado hit
the area. Coast guards rescued 15 passengers but seven others
were reported missing.
Meanwhile the Bayesian's Kiwi captain, expert sailor James
Catfield, 51, was questioned by Termini Imerese prosecutors for
two hours earlier this week.
According to an expert engineer at Italian Sea Group - the
company that owns Perini Navi, the shipyard in Viareggio that in
2008 launched the Bayesian - who spoke on condition of anonymity
and expressing a personal opinion, several mistakes may have
been committed ahead of the accident.
Potential mistakes include the fact that the boat's engines were
off and that passengers were allowed to remain in their cabins
during the storm.
"Basic security protocols provide for always having someone on
guard duty during a storm, including when a boat is at anchor.
"Moreover, even if the tornado was about to hit, there was all
the time necessary to make it to safety, just 15 minutes would
have been necessary to activate all security measures", the
engineer said.
Former British minister Lord Deben said Wednesday that his
friend Lynch had been "set to start again" after getting through
his 12-year legal case.
Lynch had ended up at the centre of a high-profile fraud case
and in June a US jury acquitted him of all charges relating to
the sale of his software company to Hewlett-Packard in 2011. His
wife Angela Bacares was among those rescued.
The yacht's name is understood to derive from the Bayesian
theory, which Lynch's PhD thesis and the software that made his
fortune was based on. (ANSA).
Hannah Lynch's body recovered
7th and last victim of Bayesian yacht disaster found