Sunken superyacht Bayesian due to be raised from seabed next month, inquest hearing told | UK News

A superyacht who sank on the coast of Sicily to kill four British citizens – including technical tycoon Mike Lynch – will be raised from the seabed and brought to the shore next month, a hearing heard.

Billionaire entrepreneur, Mr. Lynch, 59, and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah were among seven people who died when the Bayesian sunk on August 19 last year.

Simon Graves, a chief investigator of the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (Maib), said the vessel is expected to be lifted by the end of May and brought to the shore.

Obviously, the operation to pick up the boat will begin on April 26.

“We are unlikely to be at the scene when the vessel of the water is lifted, but we will be on the scene when it is restored to the shore,” Mr. Graves Tuesday told a hearing before the investigation in Ipswich, Suffolk.

He said the Bayesian is registered in the Isle of Man, and there is a British security examination, separate from continued criminal investigations.

Mr. Graves said he hopes that the Maib can publish its interim report online within four to six weeks, with the final report following in ‘months, not weeks’ after the vessel is inspected for evidence.

“We are relatively early in our investigation,” Mr. Graves said.

He added that a ‘significant amount of work’ had already occurred, including commissioning studies that looked at the ‘stability and wind of the vessel’ and the weather on the scene.

The senior forerunner of Suffolk, Nigel Parsley, asked if the ‘vessel itself was a primary source of evidence’ and Mark Cam, of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), “absolutely, sir.”

Investigation proceedings in the UK look at the death of Mr. Lynch and his daughter, as well as the chairman of Morgan Stanley International Bank, Jonathan Bloomer, 70, and his 71-year-old wife Judy Bloomer, who were all British citizens.

The others who died were US lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda Morvillo, and Canadian Antiguan National Recaldo Thomas, who worked as a chef on the yacht.

Mr. Parsley has interested person status to the family of Mr. Thomas granted, who gave them participating rights in proceedings.

He said that if he were to receive a request for the status of the Morvillo family, there was “no reason why I would not allow it”.

Mr. Parsley said that a date for a further hearing before the investigation will be determined as soon as the Maib’s interim report has been published, suggesting that September and October may have been months for this hearing.

Mr. Parsley said it was “in the hands of the criminal investigations” on when a final trial of the investigation could be conducted.

The Italian authorities conduct a criminal investigation and the MCA will see if there were any violations of maritime legislation.

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Mr. Parsley expressed his condolences to family and friends of the deceased, some of whom listened to a link to proceedings.

Mr. Lynch’s cause of medical cause was recorded as drowning when his investigation was opened and adjourned last year, with the causes of the death of the three other British citizens still being investigated.

The Bayesian is allegedly less than a nautical kilometer off the coast of the fishing village of Porticello at the time it sank and had 22 people on board – 12 crew and 10 guests.

Mr. Lynch and his daughter said he lived in the vicinity of London, while the Bloomers lived in Sevenoaks in Kent.

Mr. Lynch founded software autonomy in 1996 and was cleared in June last year of fraud on the sale of the firm to Hewlett-Packard (HP).

The boat trip was a celebration of his acquittal in the US case.