On Friday morning, divers located the final missing body after a five-day search effort to find the six passengers reported missing after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Italy on Monday morning, bringing the official death toll of the incident to seven. Hannah Lynch—the 18-year-old daughter of British tycoon Mike Lynch—was the only body unaccounted for when the search resumed this morning. Now, efforts to recover the final missing body are “in progress.” The body of tech tycoon Mike was recovered on Thursday. His wife, Angela Bacares, survived the yacht-sinking incident. The Bayesian yacht was the Lynch family boat, a source close to the matter told TIME. The yacht’s ownership is tied to Bacares.
Bodies were previously found in the search for the other missing passengers: Morgan Stanley chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife, Judy Bloomer. Along with lawyer Christopher Morvillo and his wife, Neda Morvillo. They were guests of the Lynch family. One body recovered from the scene on Monday, the day the yacht sank, has since been identified as yacht chef Recaldo Thomas.
TIME has reached out to the Sicilian civil protection agency and the Italian Coast Guard for further information.
The accident occurred during a storm on Monday, Aug. 20. The yacht had 22 people aboard—15 of whom were successfully rescued and survived the incident. The youngest passenger was a 1-year-old child, who was rescued alongside her mother.
The Italian Coast Guard told TIME in a statement on Aug. 20 that a 56-m yacht named Bayesian that was flying the U.K. flag sank around 5 a.m. local time following a violent storm.
Italian media reported that the yacht was struck by a waterspout, a miniature version of a tornado, during the storm, causing the boat to capsize. Waterspouts are most common in Italy in the late summer, and rising sea temperatures due to climate change could be making them even more common, according to the BBC.
Specialist divers have spent the last five days inspecting the shipwreck for bodies, which is located at a depth of approximately 160 feet. The public prosecutor in the Italian city of Termini Imerese has reportedly opened an investigation into the incident.
The yacht was built in 2008 by the Italian shipmaker Perini, according to the website Yacht Charter Fleet. It was designed to carry up to 12 passengers and 10 crew members. The vessel was capable of reaching speeds of up to 15 knots and comfortably cruising at speeds of 12 knots. The ship had set sail from the Italian port of Milazzo on Aug. 14 and was headed toward another Sicilian port called Bagheria, where it was expected to arrive on Sep. 18 according to the website Vessel Finder.
In June, Mike was found not-guilty of fraud after a nearly 13-year-long saga where he faced the possibility of up to 25 years in prison. Mike, who sold his company Autonomy to Hewlett Packard (HP) for $11.1 billion in 2011, was accused of serious accounting improprieties by HP after the acquisition. HP executives went on to write down $8.8 billion of the company’s value and accused Mike of fraud. Mike faced legal battles for over a decade before being acquitted by a California jury in June. His co-defendant, Steve Chamberlain, who was also acquitted in June, was killed after being hit by a car while jogging on Saturday Aug. 17.
“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,” Mike had said when he was acquitted earlier this summer, per the Guardian.
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