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Lorenzo Tondo in Porticello. Photos by Alessio Mamo

‘That damned night’: Porticello awaits the truth about Bayesian sinking

Floating cranes seen beyond a beach
Salvage workers are struggling to uncover the truth about the Bayesian’s sinking off Porticello, Sicily. Photograph: Alessio Mamo/The Guardian

Some say that the late tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s superyacht, Bayesian, sank because it was vulnerable to high winds that drove the vessel past its point of stability. Others insist that a chain of human errors led to the incident that claimed seven lives, including Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah.

But in the quiet Sicilian fishing village of Porticello – where on 19 August 2024 the Bayesian was caught shortly before dawn in a violent storm while anchored off coast – everyone knows the truth lies 50 metres below the surface, in the wreckage of a yacht that divers, floating cranes and underwater drones are still struggling to bring back from the depths of the ocean.

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