Who was on board Mike Lynch’s luxury Bayesian yacht?

Six tourists are missing after a luxury yacht sank after being hit by a tornado off the coast of Sicily.

The yacht, named Bayesian, was carrying 10 crew members and 12 passengers when it capsized early Monday morning.

Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, and his wife are reportedly among the missing along with businessman Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah.

Many remain missing as a search continues today.

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Who remains missing?

Mike Lynch, a British technology tycoon who founded software giant Autonomy in 1996, is one of four missing British passengers that was on the yacht.

He, along with his 18-year-old daughter Hannah lynch, have not been found.

Ricardo Thomas, the yacht’s chef, is also missing, according to Sicily’s civil protection agency.

An unnamed American remains missing.

Jonathan Bloomer, the International chairman of Morgan Stanley, and his wife are reportedly among the missing.

Bloomer and his wife are believed to be among those unaccounted for, Italian authorities said.

Christopher Morvillo, a lawyer at Clifford and Chance, and his wife are believed to be among the six missing people, according to the Italian Civil Protection agency.

So far, one unidentified body has been recovered, according to the Palermo Coastguard.

Though it hasn’t been confirmed officially, a Canadian foreign ministry spokesperson told the BBC they were ‘aware of reports that a Canadian citizen has died’.

Who has been rescued?

British national Charlotte Emsley (Golunski) was also rescued after the yacht sank, and told Italian newspaper la Repubblica she held her one-year-old daughter Sofia to stop her from drowning.

The Briton said: ‘I held her afloat with all my strength, my arms stretched upwards to keep her from drowning. It was all dark.

‘In the water I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I screamed for help but all I could hear around me was the screams of others.’

Charlotte and her husband James were rescued alongside their young daughter, and all three are being treated in hospital.

Ayla Ronald, a lawyer working for Clifford Chance, was also rescued after the yacht sank.

Irish national Sasha Murray was rescued as well.

Mike Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, was rescued and is alive.

39-year-old Myin Htun Kyaw, who had a Burmese passport, was also among those rescued by the coast guard.

Yacht captain Matthew Griffith, a French citizen, was rescued.

51-year-old James Calfield was also accounted for.

Matthew Fletcher is another British national thought to have been rescued, according to local media.

The Dutch foreign ministry said a Dutch man onboard was rescued and not in a life-threatening condition.

Salvo Cocina of Sicily’s civil protection agency said the yacht’s passengers and crew were from many different countries including the United Kingdom, United States, Antigua, France, Germany, Ireland, Myanmar, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Spain.

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