(19 Aug 2024)
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Porticello, Italy – 19 August 2024
1. Various of police motorboats carrying rescue operation
2. Various of Italian coast guard approaching Porticello’s dock
3. Pan right of rescuers gathered at the dock
4. Various of Italian firefighters’ divers at the dock
5. Various of helicopter flying over Porticello dock
6. Rescuers gathered at the dock
7. Pan right of rescuers
8. Italian firefighters’ boat at Porticello dock
9. Pan right from firefighters’ boat to sea
10. Zoom out on firefighters carrying their rescue operations at sea
11. Mid of Italian Coast Guard boat
12. Wide of rescuers carrying their operations off Sicily’s coast
STORYLINE:
Rescuers were still searching Monday for missing people, after a luxury superyacht sailboat carrying foreign tourists capsized and sank off Sicily in bad weather early Monday.
Earlier on Monday, one body was found, six people were missing and 15 people were rescued, authorities said.
Among the missing is British technology magnate Mike Lynch, according to Italy’s civil protection and authorities. Lynch’s wife and 14 other people survived.
Lynch, who was acquitted in June in a big US fraud trial, was among the six people who remain unaccounted for after their chartered sailboat sank off Porticello, when a tornado over the water known as a waterspout struck the area overnight, said Salvo Cocina of Sicily’s civil protection agency.
One body has been recovered, and police divers were trying to reach the hull of the ship, which was resting at a depth of 50 meters (163 feet) off Porticello, near Palermo, where it had been anchored, rescue authorities said.
It had a crew of 10 people and 12 passengers, the Italian coast guard said.
A sudden fierce storm had battered the area overnight, and struck the place precisely where the 56-meter (184-foot) British-flagged Bayesian had been moored.
The Bayesian was notable for its single 75-meter (246-feet) mast, one of the world’s tallest made of aluminum and which was lit up at night, just hours before it sank.
Online charter sites list it for rent for up to 195,000 euros (about $215,000) a week.
Eight of the 15 people rescued and taken ashore at Porticello were hospitalised while the others were taken to a hotel.
One body believed to be the cook was found near the wreck, but six others were unaccounted for and believed inside the hull, a spokesperson for the Italian fire rescue service said.
Rescue crews located the vessel and deep-water police divers were trying to access the hull, they said.
The operations, which were visible from shore, involved helicopters and rescue boats from the coast guard, fire rescue and civil protection service.
Authorities said the crew and passengers hailed from a variety of countries: In addition to Britain and the United States, passengers and crew were from Antigua, France, Germany, Ireland, Myanmar, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Spain.
A Dutch foreign ministry spokesperson said the lone Dutch citizen on board, a man, had been rescued and was not in a life-threatening condition.
The yacht, built in 2008 by the Italian firm Perini Navi, can accommodate 12 passengers in four double cabins, a triple and the master suite, plus crew accommodations, according to Charter World and Yacht Charters.
The vessel, which previously was named Salute when it flew under a Dutch flag, featured a sleek, minimalist interior of light wood with Japanese accents designed by the French designer Remi Tessier, according to descriptions and photos on the charter sites.
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