Final stage of operation will allow investigators to try to find cause of fatal sinking during storm
Salvage teams in Sicily are working to bring Mike Lynch’s superyacht “fully and finally out of the water” on Saturday for the first time since it sank last year during a storm, killing seven people including the tech tycoon and his teenage daughter.
The white top and blue hull of the Bayesian, which ran into trouble off the coast of the Italian island in August last year, emerged from the sea on Friday to sit the holding area of a yellow floating crane barge.
Once fully out of the water, the 56-metre (184ft) vessel will be transported to the port of Termini Imerese, where investigators are expected to examine it as part of an inquiry into the cause of the sinking.
“Pumping out of sea water will continue and it will be [Saturday] lunchtime, following a series of lifting and resting procedures to satisfy the salvage team, before Bayesian is fully and finally out of the water,” said David Wilson, a spokesperson for TMC Maritime, which is conducting the recovery operation.
