Four of the seven victims of the sinking of millionaire Mike Lynch’s yacht who were found trapped in the wreck did not drown, autopsies have confirmed. The bodies of millionaire Mike Lynch and his daughter have yet to be examined.
The air pocket in which they had found refuge was not enough to save their lives. Four of the seven victims of the Bayesianthe yacht of British millionaire Mike Lynch that sank off the coast of Sicily in mid-August, did not drown but died of asphyxiation, authorities said after their autopsy, according to Italian media. The shipwreck left seven dead, six of whom were found after several days of searching, trapped in the wreck at the bottom of the water.
All six bodies were on the same side of the ship, with five of them in the same cabin. Only Hannah Lynch, the millionaire’s daughter, was in a different cabin, but on the same side. This configuration suggested, according to the Palermo firefighters, that the victims may have taken refuge there to take advantage of an air bubble during the sinking.
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Three autopsies remaining
The autopsy of the bodies of Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of the board of directors of Morgan Stanley International, his wife Anne Elizabeth Judith Bloomer, the lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda Morvillo, seems to confirm this hypothesis, since the medical examiners did not find water in their respiratory tracts, ruling out the possibility of death by drowning. They would have survived in the air pocket until they could no longer find enough oxygen there.
Further tissue analyses are needed to confirm death by asphyxiation, the report said. The Republic The autopsy of Mike Lynch and the cook Recaldo Thomas – found directly after the shipwreck, not in the wreck – was to be carried out this Friday, September 7, before that of Hannah Lynch on Saturday, Reuters reports.
Investigation opened
The ship’s captain and two crew members are the subject of an investigation in Italy into whether they responded properly to the sudden storm that sank the yacht in just a few minutes. One of them, who was on deck that night, assured investigators that the crew did everything they could to save the boat, Italian news agency Ansa reported.
Angela Bacares, Mike Lynch’s wife and Hannha’s mother, said she went out on deck during the storm but was unable to save her loved ones. When she stepped on broken glass during the sinking, she cut her feet so badly that she couldn’t walk for a week, she said. The Republic. While she must simultaneously mourn the loss of her husband and daughter, she could also face legal problems: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (born from the former digital giant HP), which was claiming $4 billion from Mike Lynch for a dispute over the purchase of its company in 2011, announced in early September that it would continue its proceedings against the businessman’s heirs.
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