Work to raise a Superyacht flowing In Sicily, last year, killing a magnate of British technology and six others, was suspended on Saturday after the death of a specialized diver, according to local reports.
The diver was part of a team working to raise the 185 -foot “Bayesian” yacht which was struck by a storm before dawn in August from last year when he was anchored off Porticello, near Palermo.
The yacht sank a few minutes after being struck by something similar to a mini-tornado, killing the British technology magnate Mike LynchHis teenage daughter and five others – the president of Morgan Stanley International Bank Jonathan Bloomer and his wife, Judy, American lawyer Chris Mornvillo, his wife Neda Morto -Menvillo and the chief of the Yacht Recaldo Thomas, the BBC reported. Fifteen people managed to escape on a rescue canoe, including a one -year -old child and Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares.
The authorities suspended work on the breeding of the ship after the prosecutors opened an investigation on the death of a 39 -year -old diver on Friday, according to Italian media.
According to the first reports, the diver was part of a team working to cut and remove the 75-meter mast, a first step before recovery of the yacht himself, which is on the seabed about 50 meters.
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TMC Marine, the British company working to raise the Superyacht, did not immediately respond to an AFP request for more information.
In a statement quoted on Friday by reports, TMC Marine said that he was cooperating in the investigation and that “the circumstances of the accident were currently under investigation by the authorities”.
The work to raise the yacht started last week, the Italian coast guard saying that it would take up to 25 days.
Surveys of the death of the four British victims of the shipwreck of the yacht are currently underway in Ipswich, in eastern England.
In Italy, the Termini Imerese prosecutors have opened investigations to the captain and three other people suspected of guilty manslaughter and the crime of negligent sinking.
Lynch, the 59 -year -old founder of the Autonomy software company, had invited his friends and family to the boat to celebrate his recent acquittal In a huge case of American fraud.
Who was Mike Lynch?
Lynch, once praised as “Bill Bill Gates”, took importance in the late 1990s with the development of his software company, Automy, which helped companies quickly find information buried in email and other digital documents. In 2011, Lynch sold the company in Hewlett-Packard for $ 11 billion, giving it a salary of $ 800 million and cementing it as one of the richest people in the United Kingdom.
But the acquisition was later called One of the “most notable mergers and acquisitions stranded” after HP discovered alleged accounting problems, leading to the dismissal of Lynch by the CEO of then HP, Meg Whitman. HP said that autonomy had used accounting irregularities to strengthen its underlying finances before the acquisition, a charge that Lynch firmly denied.
The case extended to a 12 -year legal struggle which ended in June 2024 when a jury of the Federal Court in San Francisco made non -mourning verdicts.
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Lynch, who obtained a doctorate in mathematical computer science from the British University of Cambridge, first co -founded a company called Cambridge Neurodynamics, based on the work of co -founders with the recognition of models. The company used technology to match fingerprints and automotive license plates, according to a Article 1997 in the goalkeeper.
From there, Lynch co -founded autonomy in 1996, which was based on a statistical model called Bayesian inference, named after a theorem developed by the 18th century statistician Thomas Bayes. (Lynch’s luxury yacht was baptized the “Bayesian”.)
The company has exploited the growing business need to sort and find information in the large data trains created by the growing use of computers and digital documents.
Regular growth in autonomy during its first decade led to the allocation of Lynch one of the highest honors in the United Kingdom, the most excellent office of the British Empire in 2006.
Lynch told the Guardian in 1997 that people did not believe very well that an increasing technological enterprise could emerge from the United Kingdom
“I actually heard the comment,” England, software? I thought you did bone China, “he told the newspaper.
Aimee Picchi contributed to this report.
