The first piece of the superyacht Bayesian which sank last summer killing billionaire tech tycoon Mike Lynch has been brought to the surface.
Footage posted on specialist marine websites show a section of the Bayesian’s boom being hauled aboard one of the salvage vessels that is currently above the yacht.
Coastguard officials and prosecutors had ordered an exclusion zone around the site of the wreck, and it is thought the clip was obtained by a drone.
The Bayesian went down last August off the coat of the Sicilian fishing village of Porticello and also killed, were 59-year-old Mr Lynch’s daughter Hannah, 18, who was due to start at Oxford University a few weeks later.
The Bayesian went down in the early hours of the morning in just 16 minutes after being hit by a fierce storm with 100 mph winds and five other passengers also drowned.
