UPDATES with more details on the search and coastgard. Divers and an underwater drone searched Wednesday for six people, including a British tech tycoon and international banker, believed trapped when a luxury yacht sank off Sicily. The six people still currently missing following the accident are: British technology tycoon Mike Lynch Hannah Lynch, Mike’s 18-year-old...
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Who is Mike Lynch? The British ‘Bill Gates’ missing after superyacht sinks off Sicily
Once dubbed the British “Bill Gates”, tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch is among those missing since Monday after a superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily in a sudden storm. The sinking came the same day as Lynch’s former close colleague and vice-president of finance at Autonomy, Stephen Chamberlain, also died in a freak coincidence having...
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UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch missing as Bayesian superyacht sinks off Sicily
UK businessman Mike Lynch, who was recently acquitted in the United States of an $11 billion fraud, is among those missing Monday after a superyacht sank off southern Italy, according to the head of the Civil Protection Agency. The 56-meter-long luxury yacht, The Bayesian, had been moored off Porticello, east of Palermo, when the storm...