Lorenzo Tondo

Prosecutors in Termini Imerese, who have opened an investigation into the incident, have been examining videos and photographs taken on the night of the storm by some local residents.

The coast guard has visited all private homes and public places with surveillance cameras, seizing the clips.

In the footage, the British sailboat Bayesian is seen sinking into the stormy sea within a few minutes.

Fishers in the Sicilian village of Porticello who witnessed the Bayesian superyacht sink rapidly say that the vessel was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

But Italian prosecutors investigating the incident are focusing on whether the captain and crew took all the necessary safety measures to prevent the tragedy.

Lorenzo Tondo

The fifth body recovered this morning reportedly belonged to Mike Lynch, the state news agency Ansa has reported.

The only body still missing is that of Lynch’s eighteen-year-old daughter Hannah, who has not yet been located.

The five bodies have been taken to a morgue in Palermo.

Reuters, citing a source close to the rescue operation, is reporting that the body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch was retrieved today.

Lynch’s teenage daughter Hannah is still missing, Reuters reported.

Fifth body recovered as authorities aim to locate sixth body today

Lorenzo Tondo

The head of Sicily’s civil protection agency, Salvatore Cocina, told the Guardian this morning that the fifth body inside the yacht has been successfully recovered and transported to Porticello’s pier.

Dive teams from the fire brigade have now resumed the search for the final missing body within the Bayesian vessel this morning.

Italian media, quoting sources from the divers, confirmed the identification of Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda Morvillo, as well as Jonathan Bloomer, and his wife Judy Bloomer among the retrieved victims on Wednesday.

The bodies of Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah are still unaccounted for at this stage. The sixth body has not been located yet.

“We are still working on it,” Giuseppe Petrone, the national director of Italy’s firefighting department divers, told the Guardian. “We should be able to recover the sixth body today,” he added.

A fifth body located by Italian search teams has been recovered from the sunken Bayesian yacht, the PA news agency reported.

The body has been brought to shore.

The UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, his teenage daughter Hannah Lynch, the Morgan Stanley International chair, Jonathan Bloomer, his wife, Judy Bloomer, and the Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife, Neda Morvillo, have been missing since the vessel went down on Monday morning.