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Superyacht sinking: The 6 missing tourists rescuers are looking for – National

Search efforts resumed Tuesday for six people who went missing off the coast of Sicily when the luxury superyacht they were travelling in sank in the early hours of the morning Monday.

Divers in wetsuits and oxygen tanks returned to the site off Porticello, near Palermo, to tag-team in 12-minute underwater search shifts where the luxury sailboat, which was carrying 22 people, went down. ***** rescue crews reported that divers only made it to the bridge during a first search, and were unable to access the below-deck cabins because they were blocked by furniture that had shifted during the violent storm that toppled the vessel.

Fifteen people aboard the boat, named the Bayesian, were rescued, including a mother who reported swimming to safety while holding her one-year-old baby above the waves.

Divers of the Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian Corps. of Firefighters, return to Porticello on a small boat, on Aug. 20, 2024 near Palermo a day after the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian sank.

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Ten crew members and 12 tourists were onboard when the boat sank.

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One body has been recovered from the scene, The Associated Press reports, and the Italian coast guard confirmed to NBC News that it was the

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. Global Affairs Canada told Global News that it is aware of reports that a ********* citizen had *****, but did not confirm the news and said that due to privacy considerations no further information would be disclosed.

Global News also reached out to the Embassy of Canada in Rome and the Embassy of Italy in Ottawa for more information about the incident and the missing *********, but has not received confirmation as of press time.

However, the six missing passengers have been revealed.

Mike ****** and his daughter, Hannah

Mike ******, 59, is one of the U.K.’s best-known tech entrepreneurs and was sailing on the Bayesian with his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah. Reuters reports that ******’s wife, Angela Bacares, owns the Bayesian and was one of the 15 passengers rescued.

****** built the country’s largest software firm, Autonomy, and was referred to as “Britain’s Bill Gates.”

FILE – British tech magnate Mike ****** walks into federal court in San Francisco, March 26, 2024.

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He sold the firm to Hewlett-Packard for US$11 billion in 2011, after which the deal spectacularly unravelled, with the U.S. tech giant accusing him of ******, resulting in a lengthy trial. ****** was eventually acquitted by a jury in San Francisco in June.

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In an extraordinary coincidence, Stephen Chamberlain, ******’s co-defendant in the trial, ***** following a road accident in Britain over the weekend, his lawyer said on Monday.

The other missing passengers on the superyacht were ******’s colleagues and their wives.

Rescue boats operate off Porticello, on Aug. 20, 2024 near Palermo a day after the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian sank.

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Jonathan and Judy Bloomer

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Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy are also among the unaccounted for, confirmed Salvatore Cocina, head of the Italian island’s Civil Protection agency.

Bloomer is also the chairman of London-listed insurer

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, whose CEO said in a statement Tuesday that the company was “deeply shocked and saddened” by the “tragic news.”

“Our thoughts are with all those affected, in particular our chair, Jonathan Bloomer, and his wife Judy, who are among the missing, and with their family as they await further news from this terrible situation,” Aki Hussain wrote.

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Reuters reports that Bloomer

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during his lengthy trial. ****** appointed Bloomer to Autonomy’s board of directors in 2010, where he served as chairman of the audit committee at the time of the HP deal.

Judy Bloomer was described as “a brilliant champion for women’s health and medical research” by The Eve Appeal, a British ******* charity, in an

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to NBC News.

We have heard the news that an incredible former Trustee and champion for women’s health, medical research and all that The Eve Appeal stands for, Judy Bloomer, is amongst those still missing in Sicily this morning.

— The Eve Appeal (@eveappeal)

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Chris and Neda Morvillo

Chris Morvillo, an ********* lawyer at Clifford Chance, and his wife Neda are also missing. Morvillo was involved in successfully defending the case against ******.

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A spokesperson for the law firm told CNN that employees at Clifford Chance were “

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“Our thoughts are with our partner, Christopher Morvillo, and his wife Neda who are among the missing. Our utmost priority is providing support to the family as well as our colleague Ayla Ronald, who together with her partner, thankfully survived the incident,” the spokesperson added.

Italian emergency services prepare to head toward the area off the Sicilian coast where the search continues for British technology tycoon Mike ****** and his daughter Hannah, who are among six tourists missing after a luxury yacht sank in a tornado off the coast of Sicily.

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The Bayesian, a 56-metre British-flagged vessel, had been moored about a half-mile off Ponticello when a storm rolled in around 4 a.m. Monday. Civil protection officials said they believed the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout, which had passed through the area.

Storms and heavy rainfall have swept Italy in recent days after weeks of scorching heat.

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“The sea surface temperature around Sicily was around 30 degrees Celsius, which is almost three degrees more than normal,” Luca Mercalli, Italian climatologist and president of the country’s meteorological society, told Reuters.

“This creates an enormous source of energy that contributes to these storms.”

Among the survivors was Charlotte Golunski, who said she momentarily lost hold of her one-year-old daughter Sofia in the water, but then managed to

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until a lifeboat inflated and they were both pulled to safety, Italian news agency ANSA reported. The father, identified by local outlet ANSA as James, also survived.

“I immediately hugged her again amid the fury of the waves. I held her tight, close to me, while the sea was stormy,” she said. “Many were screaming. Luckily, the lifeboat inflated, and 11 of us managed to get on it.”

This picture, on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024, shows the U.K. vessel Bayesian, left, and the Dutch sailboat Sir Robert Baden Powell at anchor off the Sicilian village of Porticello near Palermo, in southern Italy, The Bayesian sank when a violent sudden storm hit the area.

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The doctor treating the survivors told the BBC that his patients said the ship “

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“They told me they found themselves in an incredible condition, let’s say of physical and psychological upheaval of their lives, and that the boat capsized within a few minutes,” Dr. Domenico Cipolla said.

Rescuers recoup the body of one of the victims of the U.K.-flagged vessel Bayesian that sank early Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, while at anchor off the Sicilian village of Porticello near Palermo, in southern Italy.

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Karsten Borner, the captain of a nearby ship that helped rescue the survivors, told reporters that there was a “strong hurricane gust, and we had to start the engine to keep the ship in an angled position,” according to Reuters.

He added that they had “watched the ship behind us not to touch them and we managed to keep the ship in position.” After the storm was over, he said, “we noticed that the ship behind us was gone.”

“Fifteen people inside. Four people were injured, three heavily injured, and we brought them to our ship,” he said. “Then we communicated with the coast guard, and after some time, the coast guard came and later picked up injured people.”

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The search effort

Because the Bayesian is resting at a depth of 50 metres underwater, divers can only stay in 12-minute shifts.

The rotating search teams, each made up of two specialized ***** divers, were working Tuesday to open up other access points to get inside the wreckage. Rescue crews said they assume the six passengers will be found in the below-deck cabins, given the time of the shipwreck, but that they have not managed to verify their presence there through portholes.

The statement referred to the six as “missing.” ***** rescue officials have said the six will be considered missing until they are located in the wreckage.

— With files from Reuters and The Associated Press

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