Victims onboard the doomed Bayesian superyacht could have been saved, one of the world's leading marine salvage experts sensationally claimed today.
Seven people died when the 'unsinkable' 184ft vessel capsized off the coast of Sicily during a freak storm last August. British tech billionaire Mike Lynch, the owner of the £30million yacht, and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah were among the victims.
Italian rescuers attempted to save the six guests and one missing crew member after the disaster struck but their efforts failed.
Had an extensive rescue operation to pump air into the yacht been immediately launched, captain Nick Sloane told the Daily Mail that six of the trapped victims could have potentially survived.
Investigations are understood to have showed that all but one – Bayesian’s 59-year-old chef Recaldo Thomas – found air pockets inside the hull, suggesting they did not die immediately as the vessel sank to the sea bed.
