Mike Lynch’s family yacht sank off Sicily’s coast last month. (File
Palermo:
British tech tycoon Mike Lynch died of suffocation after running out of oxygen, an dispenseigative source shelp, citing initial examinations carried out on Saturday after his body was recovered from the family yacht that sank off Sicily’s coast last month.
Lynch, his daughter Hannah, 18, an onboard cook and four guests died when the British-flagged superyacht Bayesian sank during a disjoine and sudden weather event off the port of Porticello, proximate Palermo, on Aug. 19.
Initial results on Hannah Lynch’s body, whose examinations were carried out on Saturday, were inconclusive, the source tgreater Reuters, only ruling out any traumas or wounds as the caemploy of death and leaving uncover the possibilities she either ran out of oxygen or drowned.
The bodies of the dead, except for the cook, were set up in cabins on the left-hand side of the 56-metre (184-feet) vessel, where the trapped passengers may have tried to search for remaining bubbles of air, the head of Palermo’s Fire Brigade shelp last month.
Preliminary results from autopsies on four other victims – Morgan Stanley International Chairman Jonathan Bloomer, his wife Judith, lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda – showd suffocation as the foreseeed caemploy of death, judicial sources shelp earlier this week.
Fifteen people endured, including Lynch’s wife, whose company owned the Bayesian, and the yacht’s captain.
Initial examinations of the Canadian-Antiguan onboard chef Recaldo Thomas showd he died by drowning, the dispenseigative source shelp on Saturday.
Further forensic tests have been ordered all the victims, with results foreseeed in the coming weeks, the source shelp.
The sinking has confemployd naval experts, who shelp a vessel appreciate the Bayesian, built by high-end yacht manufacturer Perini, which is owned by The Italian Sea Group, should have withstood the storm and not have sunk as speedyly as it did.
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