The Latest Breaking News from Sicily

Vessel to be transported to port where investigators will try to find cause of fatal sinking during storm

Italian coast guards say a British-flagged luxury superyacht that sank off Sicily last year, killing U.K. tech magnate Mike Lynch and six others, was lifted fully out of the water on Saturday afternoon as salvage recovery crews completed the operation to bring it ashore for further investigation

UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his daughter were among seven killed when vessel sank during storm last August

A British superyacht that sank off Sicily last August, claiming seven lives, has resurfaced for the first time as salvage crews prepare to haul it ashore for further investigation.

A year has passed since billionaire tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his teenage daughter Hannah died when vessel sank off coast of Sicily

The mast has been left on the seabed for future retrieval

A salvage company plans to lift the luxury yacht Bayesian in late June from the Sicilian seabed where it sank last summer, killing seven people

Maritime and investigatory authorities in Sicily approved the final recovery plan on Tuesday.

A recent satellite image captured a glowing river of lava flowing down the flank of Europe's largest active volcano as it spectacularly blew its top and unleashed a towering plume of ash, smoke and toxic gases into the skies over Sicily.