The body of another victim of the Bayesian shipwreck , the fifth, has reportedly been discovered by firefighter divers.
Only one person is missing from the list. Three bodies have already been transferred to the dock and loaded into ambulances.
We are now waiting for the recovery operations to be completed and for the other bodies to arrive. Two of the bodies recovered are those of British tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, according to the Daily Telegraph website after hearing from Italian authorities.
After having heard the commander of the Bayesian, James Cutfield, in these hours the prosecutors of Termini Imerese and the military personnel of the Port Authority are questioning the other members of the crew and the surviving passengers.
Their testimonies to try to reconstruct what happened during the shipwreck of the sailboat in the Porticello sea. To clarify what happened that caused the ship to sink in a few minutes.
In the meantime, other divers have arrived for the search, including the divers who took part in the search for the Concordia massacre, the cruise ship that occurred on the night between 13 and 14 January 2012. In this way, dives can be intensified to try to reach the cabins located in the lower part of the hull.
The “robot” used for the research is capable of operating on the seabed up to a depth of 300 meters and has an autonomy of between 6 and 7 hours. The device deployed by the Coast Guard, equipped with advanced technology that allows the seabed to be investigated and detailed videos and images to be recorded, aims to provide useful and timely elements to reconstruct the dynamics of the accident for the benefit of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Termini Imerese.
The wreck of the yacht, owned by British tycoon Mike Lynch, who is among the missing with his daughter Hannah, the chairman of Morgan Stanley International, Jonathan Bloomer, and his wife, all four British citizens, and the American lawyer Christopher Morvillo (Lynch's lawyer) and his wife, lies on its starboard side, at a depth of about 50 meters. According to an initial external inspection, the hull does not have any leaks and the 75-meter-high aluminum mainmast is intact.
The large mobile keel of the vessel also attracted the attention of the divers, partially raised because the sailing vessel was at anchor. The draft in sailing trim of the so-called dead weight, which in the case of the Bayesian is about ten meters, aims to ensure stability to the vessel. The lifting of the keel could therefore have in some way favored the sudden sinking of the yacht, which according to the footage of some cameras on the coast, occurred in the space of a minute.
The commander of the Bayesian was interrogated for over two hours
The interrogation of James Catfield, 51, the captain of the Bayesien, the sailing vessel that sank half a mile off Porticello (Palermo) shortly before dawn last Monday while a violent whirlwind was raging, lasted over two hours.
The prosecutors of the Termini Imerese Prosecutor's Office, who opened an investigation into the shipwreck, listened to him yesterday until late evening to reconstruct the dramatic phases of the sinking and to acquire technical details useful for the investigation. The interrogations continue today, the magistrates are questioning all the survivors inside the Domina-Zagarella resort
