Body from the British tech magnate Mike Lynch was recovered on Thursday from the wreck of his yacht, which sank this week off the coast of Sicily during a terrible stormMassimo Mariani, an official at the Italian Interior Ministry, confirmed to Reuters.

Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter, Hannah, is still missing, according to Mariani, who said her body may still be in the wreck or may have been swept out to sea when the yacht sank. The bodies of four other people which was lost when the ship sank They were recovered from the cruise ship on Wednesday.

Bayesian, a 56-metre British-flagged superyacht with 22 passengers and crew, was anchored in the port of Porticello, near Palermo, when it sank.It appeared beneath the waves in a matter of minutes. after the passage of a strong storm.

Lynch, 59, is one of Britain’s best-known tech entrepreneurs and invited friends to join him on a yacht to celebrate recently. acquittal in a massive fraud trial in the United States.

His body was brought ashore in a blue bag and taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital mortuary.

Apart from Lynch and his daughter, another person who did not manage to escape from the ship was Judy and Jonathan Bloomer, non-executive chairman of Morgan Stanley International, and Clifford Chance attorney Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda.

Fifteen people, including Lynch’s wife, survivedwhile the body of the cook, Canadian-Antiguan Recaldo Thomas, was found near the wreck several hours after the incident.

Italian authorities have not announced an official identification of the body and the family has not commented on the matter.

Fire brigade spokesman Luca Cari warned against this It may take time, even days, before the last missing person is found, Considering that it is difficult for divers to access all areas of the ship which is located at an angle as deep as 50 meters.

A judicial investigation has been opened into the incident, which has baffled naval oceanographers, who claim that a ship like the Bayesian, built by Italian high-end cruise ship manufacturer Perini, should have been able to withstand the storm.

Giovanni Costantino, CEO of the Italian Sea Group, which includes Perini, stated that Bayesian It is “one of the safest ships in the world” and essentially unsinkable.

The ship’s captain, James Cutfield, and his eight surviving crew members have not commented publicly on the disaster.

Difficult conditions

Special rescue teams have been searching inside the hull for three days. the cruise ship sank in very difficult conditions because of the depth and narrowness of the places visited by divers.

Firefighters compared the efforts to those undertaken, on a larger scale, in the case of the Costa Concordia, the luxury cruise ship that capsized off the Italian island of Giglio in January 2012, killing 32 people.

After the last body was found, Experts must decide whether or how to save the ship.

Constantino claimed that the cruise ship’s automatic tracking system showed that 16 minutes had passed from the time the storm hit until the ship sank.

“It is proven that the ship absorbed large amounts of water,” he said, adding Investigators need to see what doors or holes may have been left openwith a special focus on the main door located on the port side of the yacht.

“A Perini boat survived Category 5 Hurricane Katrina. Don’t you think anyone could survive a tornado here?” he told the Corriere della Sera newspaper, referring to the type of tornado that Bayesians believe struck.