(22 Aug 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Porticello, Siciliy, Italy 22 August 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Silvia Stellacci, The Associated Press:
"It took more than three days for divers to recover the bodies of five people missing after a super yacht sank Monday off the coast of Sicily in a freak storm. The Italian coast guard has confirmed that the body of British tech magnate, Mike Lynch, was among those found in the wreckage. One body was recovered on Monday, and one person is still unaccounted for.
Those aboard the yacht with Lynch were his daughter, Hannah, and people from his inner circle, who gathered on a boat trip to celebrate his victory in a longrunning legal trial. The superyacht is now lying on the seafloor at a depth of 50 meters, and divers can only spend 12 minutes at a time searching at that depth. Once the rescue operation is completed, the attention will move to the investigation as Italian prosecutors are trying to figure out how such a seaworthy vessel could sink so rapidly. The Italian authorities will also have do decide how and when to recover the super yacht from the seafloor."
2. Close of divers bringing back body wrapped in blue sheet off boat to land, emergency workers carrying body into tent
3. Various of coast guard
STORYLINE:
It took more than three days for the rescuers to recover the bodies of those missing after a super yacht sank Monday off the coast of Sicily in a freak storm.

Among the people involved in the shipwreck are British tech kingpin Mike Lynch, his daughter Hannah and some from his inner circle, who gathered on a boat trip to celebrate his victory in a longrunning legal trial.

The yacht is now lying on the seafloor at a depth of 50 meters, and divers can only spend 12 minutes at a time searching at that depth.

Once the rescue operation is completed, the attention will move to the investigation as Italian prosecutors are trying to figure out how such a seaworthy vessel could sink so rapidly.

The Italian authorities will also have to decide how and when to recover the superyacht from the seafloor.

AP video by Andrea Rosa

Production by Silvia Stellacci

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