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Lynch Yacht Sinking Off Sicily Proves as Baffling as It Is Tragic

As bodies were recovered, the authorities and experts wondered how a $40 million, stable and secure vessel could have sunk so quickly.

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By Emma Bubola and Michael J. de la Merced

Emma Bubola reported from Porticello, Italy, and Michael J. de la Merced from London.

Two months after being cleared in a bruising legal battle over fraud charges, the British tech mogul Mike Lynch celebrated his freedom with a cruise. He invited his family, friends and part of his legal team on board his luxury sailing yacht, a majestic 180-foot vessel named Bayesian after the mathematical theorem around which he had built his empire.

On Sunday night, after a tour of the Gulf of Naples, including Capri, and volcanic islands in the Eolian archipelago, the boat anchored half a mile off the Sicilian coast in Porticello, Italy. It chose a stretch of water favored by the Phoenicians thousands of years ago for its protection from the mistral wind and, in more recent times, by the yachts of tech billionaires. The boat was lit “like a Christmas tree,” local residents said, standing out against the full moon.

But about 4 a.m., calamity unfolded. A violent and fast storm hit the area with some of the strongest winds locals said they had ever felt. Fabio Cefalù, a fisherman, said he saw a flare pierce the darkness shortly after 4.

Minutes later, the yacht was underwater. Only dozens of cushions from the boat’s deck and a gigantic radar from its mast floated on the surface of the sea, fishermen said.

In all, 22 people were on board, 15 of whom were rescued. Six bodies — five passengers and the ship’s cook — had been recovered by Thursday afternoon, including that of Mr. Lynch, an Italian government official said, adding that the search was continuing for his daughter.

It was a tragic and mystifying turn of events for Mr. Lynch, 59, who had spent years seeking to clear his name and was finally inaugurating a new chapter in his life. Experts wondered how a $40 million yacht, so robust and stable could have been sunk by a storm near a port within minutes.

“It drives me insane,” said Giovanni Costantino, the chief executive of the Italian Sea Group, which in 2022 bought the company, Perini, that made the Bayesian. “Following all the proper procedures, that boat is unsinkable.”

The aura of misfortune only deepened when it emerged that Stephen Chamberlain, 52, a former vice president of finance for Mr. Lynch’s former company and a co-defendant in the fraud case, was killed two days earlier, when he was hit by a car while jogging near his house in England.

Since June, the two men had been in a jubilant mood. A jury in San Francisco had acquitted both on fraud charges that could have sent them to prison for two decades. There were hugs and tears, and they and their legal teams went for a celebratory dinner party at a restaurant in the city, said Gary S. Lincenberg, a lawyer for Mr. Chamberlain.

The sea excursion was meant as a thank-you by Mr. Lynch to those who had helped him in his legal travails. Among the guests was Christopher J. Morvillo, 59, a scion of a prominent New York family of lawyers who had represented Mr. Lynch for 12 years. He and his wife, Neda, 57, were among the missing.

So, too, was Jonathan Bloomer, 70, a veteran British insurance executive who chaired Morgan Stanley International and the insurer Hiscox.

The body of the ship’s cook, Recaldo Thomas, was recovered. All the other crew members survived. Among them was Leo Eppel, 19, of South Africa, who was on his first yacht voyage working as a deck steward, said a friend, who asked not to be identified.

Since the sinking, the recovery effort and investigation have turned the tiny port town of Porticello, a quiet enclave where older men sit bare-chested on balconies, into what feels like the set of a movie.

Helicopters have flown overhead. Ambulances have sped by with the sirens blaring. The Coast Guard has patrolled the waters off shore, within sight of a cordoned-off dock that had been turned into an emergency headquarters.

On Wednesday afternoon, a church bell tolled after the first body bag was loaded into an ambulance, a crowd watching in silence.

The survivors were sheltering in a sprawling resort near Porticello, with a view of the shipwreck spot, and had so far declined to comment.

Attilio Di Diodato, director of the Italian Air Force’s Center for Aerospace Meteorology and Climatology, said that the yacht had most likely been hit by a fierce “down burst” — when air generated within a thunderstorm descends rapidly — or by a waterspout , similar to a tornado over water.

He added that his agency had put out rough-sea warnings the previous evening, alerting sailors about storms and strong winds. Locals said the winds “felt like an earthquake.”

Mr. Costantino, the boat executive, said the yacht had been specifically designed for having a tall mast — the second-tallest aluminum mast in the world. He said the Bayesian was an extremely safe and secure boat that could list even to 75 degrees without capsizing.

But he said that if some of the hatches on the side and in the stern, or some of the deck doors, had been open, the boat could have taken on water and sunk. Standard procedure in such storms, he said, is to switch on the engine, lift the anchor and turn the boat into the wind, lowering the keel for extra stability, closing doors and gathering the guests in the main hall inside the deck.

12 guests occupied the yacht’s six cabins. There were also 10 crew members.

Open hatches, doors and cabin windows could have let in water during a storm, according to the manufacturer.

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The New York Times attempted to reach the captain, James Cutfield, who had survived, for comment through social media, his brother and the management company of the yacht (which did not hire the crew), but did not make contact.

So far none of the surviving crew members have made a public statement about what happened that night.

Fabio Genco, the director of Palermo’s emergency services, who treated some of the survivors, said that the victims had recounted feeling as if the boat was being lifted, then suddenly dropped, with objects from the cabins falling on them.

The Italian Coast Guard said it had deployed a remotely operated vehicle that can prowl underwater for up to seven hours at a depth of more than 980 feet and record videos and images that they hoped would help them reconstruct the dynamics of the sinking. Such devices were used during the search and rescue operations of the Titan vessel that is believed to have imploded last summer near the wreckage of the Titanic.

After rescuers broke inside the yacht, they struggled to navigate the ropes and many pieces of furniture cluttering the vessel, said Luca Cari, a spokesman for Italy’s national firefighter corps.

Finally, as of Thursday morning, they had managed to retrieve all but one of the missing bodies, and hopes of finding the missing person alive were thin. “Can a human being be underwater for two days?” Mr. Cari asked.

What was certain was that Mr. Lynch’s death was yet another cruel twist of fate for a man who had spent years seeking to clear his name.

He earned a fortune in technology and was nicknamed Britain’s Bill Gates. But for more than a decade, he had been treated as anything but a respected tech leader.

He was accused by Hewlett-Packard, the American technological pioneer that had bought his software company, Autonomy, for $11 billion, of misleading it about his company’s worth. (Hewlett-Packard wrote down the value of the transaction by about $8.8 billion, and critics called it one of the worst deals of all time .) He had been increasingly shunned by the British establishment that he sought to break into after growing up working-class outside London.

He was extradited to San Francisco to face criminal charges, and confined to house arrest and 24-hour surveillance on his dime. In a townhouse in the Pacific Heights neighborhood — with security people he jokingly told associates were his “roommates” — he spent his mornings talking with researchers whom he funded personally on new applications for artificial intelligence. Afterward, he devoted hours to discussing legal strategy with his team.

Despite his persistent claims of innocence, even those close to Mr. Lynch had believed his odds of victory were slim. Autonomy’s chief financial officer, Sushovan Hussain, was convicted in 2018 of similar fraud charges and spent five years in prison.

During Mr. Lynch’s house arrest, his brother and mother died. His wife, Angela Bacares, frequently flew over from England, and she became a constant presence in the San Francisco courtroom during the trial.

After he was finally acquitted, Mr. Lynch had his eye on the future. “I am looking forward to returning to the U.K. and getting back to what I love most: my family and innovating in my field,” he said.

Elisabetta Povoledo contributed reporting from Pallanza, Italy.

Emma Bubola is a Times reporter based in Rome. More about Emma Bubola

Michael J. de la Merced has covered global business and finance news for The Times since 2006. More about Michael J. de la Merced

Yard & Co. | Cafe Near Desaru with a Sea View

Cuti-Cuti Malaysia is on with the new norms!

My friends and I planned a trip to Desaru, Johor this long weekend, where we went to Yard & Co. ( 야드 & 커) – a cafe in Sungai Rengit with a sea view. 🏝️

The interior is aesthetically pleasing, and they served coffee, food, and dessert. Take note that the cafe only accepts cash and Maybank QR Pay.

We ordered desserts and coffee only since we ate our lunch beforehand. Here’s what we tried:

@aqaliliazizan 📍Yard & Co. , Kampung Sungai Rengit, Johor, Malaysia. #cafe #cafehunting #desaru #fyp #travel #malaysia #desaru #johor ♬ ily (i love you baby) – Surf Mesa

After we finished everything, I would like to recommend Creme Brulee, Lychee Oolong, Chao-Ta Cheesecake & Rose Latte for you to try!

My husband ordered Berries Black, which he didn’t recommend, same goes to Lychee Cold Brew. But, if you’re an adventurous eater, go for it!

If you visit this cafe in the future, let me know on the comment down below or tag me on Instagram ! 😘

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Here's what to know about Mike Lynch, the tech tycoon missing in the Sicily yacht disaster

By Aimee Picchi

Edited By Anne Marie Lee

Updated on: August 21, 2024 / 12:05 PM EDT / CBS News

Mike Lynch, once hailed as "Britain's Bill Gates," is now among the six people missing after his luxury yacht sank in a violent storm off the coast of Sicily. At the time of the disaster, Lynch had been trying to shake more than a decade of legal entanglements that ended in June when he was cleared of fraud and conspiracy charges . 

On Wednesday, two bodies had been brought to shore in Porticello, near Palermo, and two more were in the process of being brought ashore. Britain's Telegraph newspaper reported that the bodies of Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter were among the remains recovered Wednesday, but the civil protection chief would not confirm that report to CBS News. 

Lynch, 59, rose to prominence in the late 1990s with the development of his software company, Autonomy, which helped businesses quickly find information buried in email and other digital documents. In 2011, Lynch sold the business to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion, giving him a $800 million payday and cementing him as one of the U.K.'s richest people. 

But the acquisition was later called one of the "most notorious failed mergers and acquisitions" after HP discovered alleged accounting issues, leading to Lynch's firing by HP's then-CEO, Meg Whitman. HP claimed that Autonomy had used accounting improprieties to bolster its underlying financials ahead of the acquisition, charges that Lynch steadfastly denied. 

The case stretched into a 12-year legal fight that ended in June 2024 when a federal court jury in San Francisco delivered not-guilty verdicts.

"I am looking forward to returning to the U.K. and getting back to what I love most — my family and innovating in my field," Lynch said in a statement after the verdict.

Here's what to know about Lynch. 

What company did Mike Lynch start?

Lynch, who earned a PhD in mathematical computing from the U.K.'s Cambridge University, first cofounded a company called Cambridge Neurodynamics, based on the cofounders' work with pattern recognition. The firm used the tech to match fingerprints and car license plates, according to a 1997 article in The Guardian.

From there, Lynch cofounded Autonomy in 1996, which relied on a statistical model called Bayesian inference, named after a theorem developed by the 18th century statistician Thomas Bayes. (Lynch's luxury yacht was christened the "Bayesian.")

The company tapped into the growing need of businesses to sort through and find information within the vast reams of data created by the increasing use of computers and digital documents.

Autonomy's steady growth during its first decade resulted in Lynch being awarded one of the U.K's highest honors, the Office of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2006.

Lynch told The Guardian in 1997 that people didn't quite believe that a growing tech business could emerge from the U.K. 

"I have actually heard the comment, 'England, software? I thought you made bone china,'" he told the newspaper. 

What happened after Autonomy's acquisition by HP?

At first, HP celebrated the purchase as a huge coup that would propel the Palo Alto, California, company down a promising new path, but then quickly came to regret it under then-CEO Meg Whitman.

HP claimed it found accounting irregularities, and the company ended up recognizing $8.8 billion in losses in the Autonomy deal. Whitman eventually fired Lynch in 2012, while also laying off thousands of workers as HP's fortunes sagged. 

Throughout the past 12 years, Lynch rejected the allegations. He told the Wall Street Journal in 2012 that he was "ambushed" by the claims, which he described as "completely and utterly wrong."

What happened with Mike Lynch's legal case?

Lynch maintained his innocence while testifying earlier this year before a jury during a 2 1/2 month trial in San Francisco. U.S. Justice Department prosecutors called more than 30 witnesses in an attempt to prove allegations that Lynch engaged in accounting duplicity that bilked billions of dollars from HP.

The jury, as noted above, delivered not-guilty verdicts in June, vindicating Lynch, who pledged to return to the U.K. and to find new ways to innovate. 

Who is Mike Lynch's wife? 

Mike Lynch is married to Angela Bacares, who is one of the people rescued from the Mediterranean after the yacht sank. Lynch and Barares have two daughters. One of them, Hannah, 18, is among the missing, according to the BBC. 

Bacares, 57, owns shares in Darktrace, a British cybersecurity company she and Lynch co-founded, the Sun noted . She sat in the front row of the courtroom during her husband's trial, but generally has preferred to stay out of the public eye, the Times of London reported in July.

"We made the decision that Angela would not be involved in the case. She stayed completely separate. Her focus was the family and children," Lynch told the Times last month.

— With reporting by the Associated Press.

Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets including USA Today and Consumer Reports.

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Yard & Co: Seaside Johor Cafe That Serves Milk Mochi & Has Outdoor Seats To Enjoy The Views

Yard & Co in Johor

There’s something about the sea that makes us go into relaxation mode. As we don’t get to see long stretches of calming blue waters often, it’s always a treat to find a place that lets us kick back with a serene sea view. 

Over in Johor, there’s a cosy seaside cafe called Yard & Co that’s about a 30-minute drive from Desaru. Here, you can order massive breakfast plates and desserts like milk mochi, while enjoying a view of the sea.

A seaside cafe with al fresco dining

There aren’t many aesthetic cafes by the sea. But Yard & Co is a gem you’ll find facing the South China Sea, at the tip of Sungai Rengit which comprises several fishing villages – leading locals to liken it to the setting of the popular K-Drama, Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha .

Once you find the cafe, you’ll be greeted by a charming, low-lying building next to a deck with tables and chairs where you can enjoy uninterrupted views of the calming open waters and clear skies. 

This al fresco dining space on the deck is one of the highlights of this cafe. Aside from that, there is a long concrete bench by the cafe’s entrance that’s great for those who are stopping to sip on some coffee and enjoy the serene sea view. 

Inside the cafe, find a variety of seating options to enjoy the view too, as the space is surrounded by large glass windows that makes the most of its location by the sea. Choose to spend a laidback afternoon on a rattan sofa, or at long wooden tables that’s great for larger groups.   

If you’re lucky, you might get a seat by the window with a direct view of the sea.

Milk mochi and fresh lobster

If the cafe’s ambience and surroundings aren’t enough to entice you, their menu will do the trick.

Find hearty all-day brunch staples, such as the Snooze Button (RM21.90) which is a plate of creamy egg benedict on bagel, and Yard Breakfast (RM29.90) – a big breakfast plate with seven brekkie favourites such as beef bacon, baked beans, and sourdough toasts.

Those swinging by for lunch or dinner with their pals can opt for heartier meals, such as the Sunbathing In The Midday (RM31.90) which is pan-seared barramundi fillet served on roasted pumpkins, and drizzled with salted egg sauce. Else, the Lobster & Lobster (RM108) is another fancy dish comprising lobster, mixed salad, fries, and mentai mayo.

They also serve Asian-inspired dishes such as Laksa Pasta (RM26.90) , which is a creamy Johor-style laksa pasta served with prawns, fish cake, and taufu-pok .

Their desserts are a highlight. For starters, the Milk Mochi (RM15.90) is a popular order among customers, with doi-doi milk mochi served on a bed of peanuts, black sesame powder, and brown sugar syrup.

Finish your meal with their sweet and aromatic Rose Latte (RM12) or earthy Gula Melaka Latte (RM15) .

If you’re not a coffee drinker, there are beverages such as Pearl Milk Tea (RM11) and their fizzy nitro-infused kombucha, Pineapple Green Tea Kombucha (RM15) .

Yard & Co, a seaside cafe in Pengerang, Johor

Yard & Co is a popular cafe that boasts a wide array of breakfast to dinner options, with almost every corner of its space having a view of the sea. For extra photo ops while you’re visiting this cafe, we recommend coming during the evening to catch the sun setting over the sea. 

Address : Lot4785, 1, Jalan Siakap, Kampung Sungai Rengit, 81600 Pengerang, Johor Opening hours : Mon-Fri 12pm-7pm | Sat & Sun 11am-7pm Contact : 011-5583 3319 | Yard & Co’s Facebook | Instagram

Check out these places nearby:

• Soil, a cottage-style cafe in a foliage-covered building
• Keijometo, an industrial-themed cafe serving Japanese food
• Sea Horizon Resort, a glamping resort with bubble dome tents

Cover image adapted from: @jasminehia via Instagram , @kathy_chinchin via Instagram, @sinlly.ksl via Instagram Additional reporting by Janet Cho. 

This article was first published on 30th June 2022, and updated on 26th September 2023.

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Yacht Sank in Sicily Due to ‘Endless Chain of Errors,' Ship Maker's Owner Speculates: ‘Everything Was Predictable’

"A series of activities should have been done to avoid finding oneself in that situation," argues Giovanni Costantino, who owns the firm that built the vessel in 2008

• Giovanni Costantino — who is the CEO of The Italian Sea Group, the company that now owns Perini Navi, which built the  Bayesian  in 2008 — blames an "endless chain of errors" for the luxury yacht’s sinking on Monday, Aug. 19
• "Everything was predictable. I have the weather charts in front of me here," Constantino told Italian newspaper  Corriere della Sera  of the storm the boat was caught in
• "An unsinkable ship but from the crew an endless chain of errors," the CEO claimed to the outlet

The sinking of the luxury Bayesian  yacht off the coast of Sicily this week  resulted from an "endless chain of errors" by the crew, the ship maker's CEO is speculating.

"This episode sounds like an unbelievable story, both technically and as a fact," Giovanni Costantino — who leads The Italian Sea Group, the company that now owns Perini Navi, which built the  Bayesian  in 2008 — said,  according to CNN .

While speaking to  Italian newspaper  Corriere della Sera , Costantino said he believes those on board should not have been in their cabins, as he claims they were, when the Bayesian sank in the early hours of Monday, Aug. 19. 

Many details of why the yacht went into the water so quickly remain unclear and it's not yet known what the passengers and crew were doing before tragedy struck.

The 183-foot British vessel sank around 5 a.m. local time on Monday after a "violent storm" while near Porticello, the Italian coast guard said in a statement that was previously obtained by PEOPLE.

"Everything that has been done reveals a very long sum of errors. The people should not have been in the cabins, the boat should not have been at anchor. And then why didn't the crew know about the incoming disturbance?" Costantino said in his interview, translated from Italian.

Related: Italian Authorities Currently Don’t Have Anyone ‘Under Investigation’ over Luxury Yacht Sinking

"The passengers reported an absurd thing, namely that the storm came unexpected, suddenly. It's not true. Everything was predictable. I have the weather charts in front of me here. Nothing came suddenly ... Ask yourself, why was no fisherman from Porticello out that night? A fisherman reads the weather conditions and a ship doesn't? The disturbance was fully readable in all the weather charts. One could not not know," he argued.

"An unsinkable ship but from the crew an endless chain of errors," the CEO asserted.

The coast guard has said 22 people were aboard the  Bayesian  when it sank — 12 passengers and 10 crew — and that 15 of those were subsequently rescued.

The body of the yacht's chef, Recaldo Thomas, was recovered nearby. 

Costantino's comments came as it was reported that five bodies had been found in the search for the missing six people as of Wednesday, Aug. 21, a source close to the rescue operations confirmed to PEOPLE. Authorities have said that their work is ongoing. 

An Italian government official, Massimo Mariani, reportedly named one of the dead as British tech tycoon Mike Lynch . The other bodies have not yet been publicly identified by authorities. 

Lynch was celebrating with family and friends on the yacht following his acquittal in a fraud trial in June, PEOPLE previously reported.

Related: 'We Are in Shock,' Prominent N.Y.C. Attorney's Firm Says After He and His Wife Go Missing in Yacht Sinking

Costantino offered his view of how the tragedy could have been avoided: "To begin with, in a weather alert situation it was inappropriate to have, as I read, a party. Not that evening. The hull and deck needed to be secured by closing all doors and hatches, after putting the guests at the ship's meeting point as per emergency procedure. Then start the engines and pull up the anchor or release it automatically, put the bow to the wind and lower the keel.

"The next morning they would have departed with zero damage." 

When discussing whether the crew were at fault, Costantino reiterated to the Italian outlet that he believes "errors were made."

"A series of activities should have been done to avoid finding oneself in that situation," he said. "I as the ship's captain would have moved, but even if for some reason I had to stay there, I would have managed those weather conditions which then, let's face it, weren't so crazy."

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Costantino contended that there would have been "a zero risk if the correct maneuvers had been made and if situations that compromised the ship's stability had not occurred," adding to the newspaper that reports that the boat went down in seconds is "nonsense." He believes the yacht would have "went down" after water "started to enter" within "six minutes."

The remaining missing  Bayesian  passengers are Lynch's daughter Hannah as well as Chairman of Morgan Stanley International  Jonathan Bloomer, his wife, Judy , and New York City-based lawyer  Christopher Morvillo and his wife, Neda , sources have said.

Lynch's wife, Angela Bacares, was among those rescued, PEOPLE previously reported.

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Bayesian Yacht: Sixth Body Found In Italy, Reports Say

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A sixth body has been found after luxury yacht Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily earlier this week, multiple outlets reported Friday, after divers recovered the bodies of British tech entrepreneur Michael Lynch and four others, including the chairman of Morgan Stanley International.

A body bag is brought ashore at the harbor in Porticello by rescue workers on Thursday, Aug. 22, ... [+] 2024.

The Italian Coastguard told media they had found another body, believed to be that of 18-year-old Hannah Lynch, the daughter of Michael Lynch and his wife, Angela Bacares, in the search for missing people, and the head of Sicily’s civil protection agency Salvatore Cocina reportedly said efforts to recover the body are “in progress.”

The bodies of Lynch, Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy, and attorney Chris Morvillo and his wife, Neda, were all recovered from the sunken Bayesian yacht Wednesday, according to Reuters .

Bacares was rescued alive from the vessel.

Rescuers were able to breach the main hull of the sunken yacht Wednesday for the first time and recovered the five bodies, multiple outlets reported.

One person, believed to be the yacht's chef, Recaldo Thomas , was confirmed early on in the search to have died, and 15 others were rescued.

A spokesperson for the Italian coast guard on Tuesday said those missing were presumed dead.

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“It looks like we’ve lost our dear Dr Mike Lynch. RIP,” David Tabizel, who co-founded at Autonomy with Lynch, posted to X. “The world has lost a genius. His family have lost a giant of a man.”

Who Was On Board The Bayesian Yacht?

Lynch, 59, and his daughter, Hannah, were among the first to be identified as among the missing. Lynch is a founder of the software company Autonomy Corporation, Invoke Capital and cybersecurity company Darktrace. His daughter was reportedly set to attend Oxford University in the fall. Lynch's wife is the legal owner of the ship and was among those rescued. Others onboard were guests of the Lynch family, including Morvillo, Lynch’s lawyer, and his wife and jewelry designer Neda. Bloomer, 70, is reportedly a close friend of Lynch's. Among those resued were Charlotte Golunski, a partner at Lynch's Invoke Capital, her partner and her baby daughter. Lawyer Ayla Ronald and her partner were also rescued.

Key Background

The Bayesian, a 184-foot luxury sailing yacht, was anchored near the port of Porticello overnight Sunday with 12 crew members and 10 guests onboard. A storm that hit the coast reportedly included a waterspout , effectively a tornado over water, which tipped the boat into the sea. The ship's massive sail and mast dragged the vessel underwater and it sank—it had the tallest aluminum mast in the world at 246 feet. Fifteen people were rescued from the vessel. Of those, eight were treated at local hospitals and have since been released.

Surprising Fact

The ship’s sinking comes two months after Lynch, a one-time billionaire, was acquitted in a fraud trial after Hewlett-Packard accused him and his colleagues of artificially inflating the value of software company Autonomy before HP purchased it in 2011. Bloomer testified for the defense at Lynch’s trial, according to the Associated Press , and Morvillo was one of the lawyers on the case. The same weekend the ship sank, Lynch’s co-defendant Stephen Chamberlain was hit by a car while jogging and died Monday after being put on life support at a U.K. hospital.

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