Lynch's 18-year-old daughter reportedly is unaccounted for as of Thursday morning. The family had been celebrating his recent acquittal on fraud charges.
Early reports indicate the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout, and sank quickly.is among those recovered off the coast of Sicily from the wreckage of a superyacht whose builders had called unsinkable.
The chief executive of The Italian Sea Group, which owns the Bayesian's manufacturer, said superyachts like these are “the safest in the most absolute sense.” The sailboat's captain, Karsten Borner, said his craft sustained minimal damage — the frame of a sun awning broke — even with winds that he estimated had reached 12 on the Beaufort wind scale, which is the highest hurricane-strength force on the scale.
“Another possibility is to heave anchor before the storm and to run downwind at open sea,” Borner said in a text message. But he said that might not have been possible for the Bayesian, given its 75-meter tall mast.
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