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Komokwa – named after the Kwakiutl Indian culture of British Colombia for the god of sea creatures, tides and currents – is a vessel with globe-exploring pedigree. Originally created by Drettmann for an owner after a purpose-built luxury vessel to captain on a round-the-world trip with his friends and family, she is now ready for an adventure along America's Pacific coastline.

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Superyacht KOMOKWA available for British Columbia charter experience

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By Steph Loseby   21 April 2022

Guests looking to explore the fantastical realm of the Pacific Northwest can now charter the 41m (135ft) superyacht KOMOKWA who is available for once-in-a-lifetime charter experiences around British Columbia in 2022.

Delivered in 2010 by Taiwanese shipyard Horizon, Luxury motor yacht KOMOKWA knows how to provide a yacht charter experience with a difference. 

Taking you to beautiful destinations such as Desolation Sound and British Columbia’s capital Victoria, the vessel is the prime candidate for anyone looking for a taste of the superyacht lifestyle.

Boasting an array of sumptuous living areas laid out invitingly to create a warm and welcoming atmosphere onboard, M/Y Komokwa is the perfect yacht for a variety of charter party configurations from multi-party vacations to family getaways.

From her homely and inviting interiors to her well-maintained and versatile charter platform, she is the ideal charter yacht for kicking back, relaxing and soaking up the impeccable views of the Pacific Northwest. 

Her onboard highlights include a spacious sundeck with shaded sofa seating and a large bar, an intimate formal alfresco dining area, a gym, sauna and deck jacuzzi.

Accommodating up to 13 guests in 5 opulent suites, KOMOKWA offers guests the perfect platform from which to enjoy an extraordinary yacht charter destination in British Columbia.

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From winding lakes to vast green forests and magnificent mountains to cosmopolitan cities, British Columbia fuses a huge array of experiences to create memorable and outstanding charter vacations. Experience nature at its finest as you soak in the tremendous scenery and beautiful wildlife that inhabits this wondrous region. 

To find out more about chartering in the region, please see our British Columbia yacht charter guide . 

If you’d like to learn more about chartering superyacht KOMOKWA this summer, please contact a recommended yacht charter broker .

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Komokwa is 41.1-meter elegant motor yacht built in 2009 by Horizon, the Taiwan based shipbuilders. The interior design was executed by Espinosa Yacht Design, the Florida based veteran yacht designer headed by JC Espinosa. She can accommodate up to 10 guests in 5 cabins. The mastersuite has a king size, an ensuite bathroom with a Jacuzzi and multi-jet shower, and an adjacent study lounge. The guests on board Komokwa will be treated by a crew of 6.

Komokwa yacht can reach a top speed of 16 knots and has a cruising speed of 13, Komokwa’s amenities include an on deck Jacuzzi, a sauna and a gym. The yacht is equipped with underway stabilizers for comfortable sailing.

Komokwa is equipped with an extensive array of water “toys” including;a 785 Ribeye tender with 300 HP Yamaha and a ski pole suitable for wake boarding, tubing and skiing, an 18 ft.Castoldi jet drive tender with a 75HP Yanmar, a Novurania center console with 30 HP Evinrude, a3 person Seadoo, 3 X 2 Person biscuits, 3 x single style slalom water skis, a hyper lite wakeboard with bindings, a wake skate, 2 X single Hobie kayaks with foot pedal power and paddles, a two person’ Hobie kayak with foot pedal and paddles, 2 X SUPsand fishing gear and tackle.

• Price : From €114,000 p/w
• Builder : Horizon
• Built/Refit : 2009
• Guests : 12

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• Name: Komokwa yacht
• Yacht Type: Motor Yacht
• Naval architecture: Horizon
• Exterior Designer: Espinosa Yacht Design
• Interior Designer: Espinosa Yacht Design
• Model: P130
• flag: Jamaica
• Length Overall: 62.4m / 204.7 feet
• Beam: 8.2m / 27feet
• Draft: 2.3m / 7.5 feet
• Groos Tonnage: 398 Tonnes.
• Cruising Speed: 10 Knots
• Max Speed: 15 Knots
• Cabin Configuration: 1 Master, 4 Double, 2 Pullman.

Air Conditioning and Gym with sauna.

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785 Ribeye tender with 300 HP yamaha and ski pole for suitable for wake boarding, tubing and skiing,  18 ft Castoldi jet drive tender Yanmar 4JH Turbo diesel, Small Novurania tender  with 30 HP Evinrude,  Seadoo 3 person,  Kayaks and paddle boards.

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On board with Brian O’Sullivan, owner of motor yacht Komokwa

Superyacht owner Brian O'Sullivan may have travelled the world at the helm of his 40 metre motor yacht Komokwa , but it’s wind power that’s driven this Canadian boat lover. Stewart Campbell meets him...

If Brian O’Sullivan ever sits down to write the book in his head, he’s got the title: Among Cannibals and Kings . In truth, he never actually saw either on his trip from his native Canada, across the Pacific and Indian oceans and then into the Med, but it’s a handy shorthand for what boats can offer you: an unrivalled breadth of experience. There was that time in the Marquesas, when he was touring a sacrificial altar and his business colleague Matt reached into a crack in a wall and brought out a human jaw bone. “The guide told us cannibalism had been outlawed 100 years ago, but that jaw looked pretty fresh!” he jokes.

They cruised into a Tongan town the day after the king visited and saw the streets dressed to welcome royalty, and then children being taken to school on the back of flatbed trucks. On Fijian beaches, his two sons played rugby with local kids who had nothing, on islands with no roads, phones or electricity. He met yachtsmen in remote corners living day to day, and one who was forced to use a sewing machine as an anchor after selling his actual anchor to make ends meet. “It dragged, and the boat ended up on the rocks. Turns out sewing machines aren’t good anchors.” And on the party island of Ibiza , which must have felt like another planet, he watched curiously as one of the world’s largest superyachts motored into the harbour every evening and left the following morning with a fresh contingent of guests – all young and all female. “This happened every day for a month! I mean, it was [going from] subsistence living to 60 girls a day. Just the contrasts, they were so dramatic,” he says, wide-eyed at the memory.

O’Sullivan is able to spend so much time on board because, at 64, he’s a relatively free man nowadays – just the 30 employees instead of 250. His business is the wind, specifically the harvesting of it. He didn’t start out in the industry with a “save the planet” philosophy. In the early days, back in the 1980s, it was all business, but he admits over the years he’s become something of an evangelist.

“You’ve got to walk the walk. I’m certainly a believer [in green energy] now. In the beginning I was just a believer in not being a lawyer. And maybe having an opportunity to do something in California where the sun was shining more often than in Vancouver. That sounded like a pretty good idea,” he says.

The Sunshine State back then was governed by Jerry Brown, who is currently enjoying another belated term in office. In the early 1980s he had the nickname Governor Moonbeam, and it was subsidies and tax credits introduced by Brown that drew early wind entrepreneurs to the state, including a young O’Sullivan, then barely 30. “Around 87 per cent of your investment was covered by some form of rebate or credit or depreciation. So if you put up $100, only $12.50 came out of your pocket. As bad as that may sound, it actually spawned a multi-trillion-dollar industry.”

The wind wasn’t his first stab at making a living. He trained in law, but “I didn’t like being a lawyer so quit and I started in real-estate development”. But interest rates blew to 20 per cent, which killed that dream. Then one day he got a call. “It was my uncle, asking if I was interested in investing in a wind farm project in California. Well, I had no money – I spent it all starting the real estate business – but I did have lots of friends who trusted my judgement. My choice was going back to be a lawyer, or to try something different.”

O’Sullivan raised the required $100,000 but by the time he got it together the window had closed – another investor had slipped in ahead of him. No matter, he would start his own wind company, with his friends’ backing. The site of his first turbines was Tehachapi, about 100 miles north of LA, in between the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert, and one of the windiest places in the US. It was a genuine wind rush, a mania not seen since the 1850s when 300,000 “forty-niners” made the journey west to stake a claim.

Within a year O’Sullivan had sold that business and struck out on his own, eventually building his new wind company into one of the largest in the US, with operations all over the world, from India to Italy to Mexico. It was the sale of this business in 2012 that allowed him to buy his yacht, the 40 metre Horizon Komokwa . “I never thought I’d be able to get a boat as big as this,” he says, “but it was just good timing because, at the same time wind was booming, the market for big boats was cratering.” He found her in a shed in Turkey, basically brand new after her first owner pulled out. He bought it off a creditor, at a very agreeable price, and got her shipped to Vancouver. The first thing to go were the Italian toilets, replaced by Headhunters, the air-con piping was changed and a bulbous bow was added at Delta’s yard in Seattle, as well as new hull paint. In 2013 he and the boat were ready. “I’d had it in my head to go around the world since I was in my early 20s. But I had businesses to build and I was fairly ambitious and didn’t want to be a bum on a boat, doing work wherever I could just to pay for fuel,” he says.

His dad first got him into boats. “He couldn’t afford to buy one, so built a 34-foot cabin cruiser when I was seven years old,” O’Sullivan remembers. “He made a steamer out of a carpet tube and bent the stem himself. It had a GM diesel that he bought for $100 from war surplus. When we were kids, in order to get dessert, he would have us sanding teak plugs.”

It was launched when O’Sullivan was 10 and from then till 2015, every single family holiday has been spent on a boat, mainly exploring the beautiful British Columbia coastline. It was only when he was in his early 20s, though, that O’Sullivan truly learnt how to run a boat. By then his dad owned a 15 metre former fisheries vessel, complete with fireplace. “It was really fun. When I graduated I asked him if he would teach me how to run it and he said ‘sure’ and handed me the keys and told me to figure it out by myself. That’s when I really started to love the sea. I remember going up to Desolation Sound with prawns aplenty and lots of friends. And all the pressure, whether it was being a young lawyer or being a young windmill guy, just sort of evaporated in this environment. I think my whole life has been spent trying to recreate that dissipation of pressure.”

You’d think someone so keen to de-stress would spend most of his time on board Komokwa on a sunpad, occasionally reaching for his beer, but instead O’Sullivan is in the wheelhouse, or on the flybridge, operating the yacht himself. Of the 25,000 miles the boat has done since he took ownership, only 2,000 were completed without him at the helm. He was initially refused insurance because of his insistence on being an owner-operator, but three weeks of skipper school and an aced exam in Fort Lauderdale convinced Lloyd’s he was a safe bet.

He began his big trip west by going south, as Komokwa made passage from Vancouver to LA, San Diego and on to Cabo San Lucas and La Paz on the Baja Peninsula. “We wanted to swim with whale sharks,” O’Sullivan explains. Then it was on to Puerto Vallarta further south in Mexico, before a straight shot across to the Marquesas – 15 days at sea. A month in Tonga and a month in Fiji followed, as well as visits to some of the other island paradises that pepper the Pacific, including Bora Bora, Moorea and Papeete. He put into Sydney in Australia to get some work done, but encounters with aggressive customs officials (“they quarantined the boat for two days! They even went through the crew’s underwear, piece by piece”) and a quote for AUD$8,000 to wash down the boat saw him quickly crossing the Tasman to New Zealand. “We cruised all of the North Island. It’s really beautiful. I wish I could have spent more time there,” he says.

The spectre of Somalian piracy and a destabilised Yemen convinced him to load Komokwa on to a Dockwise transport bound for Palma, Mallorca, a base from which he criss-crossed the Med, covering Italy, the Adriatic and the Côte d’Azur . “A friend of mine is a movie producer so I lent him the  boat for the Cannes Film Festival . He had a party on board and I got tickets to the black tie, red carpet events. Movie people are crazy,” he says.

Perhaps not as crazy as the crew that came and went throughout the trip. Crew are a necessary evil for O’Sullivan – if he could run the boat entirely on his own, he would. “I don’t know what it is about crew, but they’re all nuts. The biggest source of conflict on a boat is crew. And if I could get a boat with a much larger crew area, but that would still only house five crew, I would be interested.”

Australian officialdom wasn’t O’Sullivan’s only drama down under. It turned out a stewardess, who was on board with her deckhand boyfriend, was having an affair with the engineer. The engineer in turn was sleeping with the chef. “So I ended up losing all of them,” he says, shaking his head. But this is pretty tame compared to O’Sullivan’s best crew story: “We had a cocktail party on board the first summer I had the boat. Later that night one of my guests got up to get some water and heard a thumping sound coming from the walk-in fridge. I open the door and the chef, a guy and the first one I had on board, is in there going at it with a guest from another boat!”

When I graduated I asked [my dad] if he would teach me how to run the boat and he said ‘sure’ and handed me the keys and told me to figure it out by myself.

He says he prefers the European way of running a boat – a more upstairs, downstairs relationship – to the North American “we’re all one happy family” approach. “You don’t be mean but you set the boundaries. I didn’t come from money. When my father died he left me $764. That was it. So I’m not used to having staff around me all the time. The thing I love about boats is being able to get away from people. The top deck of Komokwa is essentially an owner’s deck and I don’t want to see crew there. I absolutely demand my privacy.”

Despite all this, he still considers the cruise one of the greatest experiences of his life. And why not? He knows how lucky he is to be doing what he’s doing. “How many guys can live a life cooler than I do right now, which is zipping around on my boat? And I get to see my two sons a lot, and I meet great people.”

He’s thankful, too, for the wind industry, which has given him all this. He’s still involved and is developing sites in Mexico with a new company. It’s boom-time down there, he says. “I challenge anyone to get a hotel room tonight in Mexico City.” He did try other things, even movie producing, working on a film called Dangerous Love , released in 1988. “It was a turkey! But I had fun doing it and I managed to not lose any money.” That experience meant he passed up the opportunity to invest in another production, which turned out to be Dumb and Dumber (box office gross: $127 million). “Perhaps I could have stayed on for one more movie!” He also built some apartment buildings in LA and chose not to invest in Cirque du Soleil. “I thought: ‘Who the hell would pay good money to go see a circus?’”

He can laugh about it today because he’s living the life he always wanted. “I say to my sons: ‘Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work again.’ For me, that was wind power. When I look back on everything, I’m very fortunate to have been where I was at the time, to have had the opportunities and experiences I’ve had. You guys even got me a free pass to the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show . It’s the first one I’ve ever got!”

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The Bayesian set off on a leisurely cruise around Italy's southern coast on a sunny day in late July.

The luxurious super yacht − which boasted one of the largest masts in the world and carried a crew of business moguls, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his family and a chair of Morgan Stanley − set sail from the Amalfi Coast, bound for Sicily.

Less than a month later, the ship had sunk 160 feet under the water , leaving its cook dead and six of its passengers, including at least two Americans, missing and prompting a massive search that has drawn international attention.

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Now, experts are trying to piece together why in the early hours Monday the Bayesian was quickly pulled under the waves amid a storm that saw at least one tornado spin up over the water.

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A perfect storm led to Bayesian sinking, experts say

The combination of unlikely factors that could have contributed to the ship's fate constituted a "black swan event," Matthew Schanck, chairman of the Maritime Search and Rescue Council, told USA TODAY.

The Bayesian was well-built: A 2008 product of Italian ship maker Perini, it was constructed in accordance with international maritime standards and commercially certified by the U.K.'s Maritime and Coastguard Agency, according to Schanck.

The bout of bad weather that swept the area when the ship went down was also out of the ordinary in the northern Mediterranean, "which isn't renowned for prolonged, significant stormy weather," he said.

"The fact that those two elements have then resulted in the foundering of a super yacht is pretty extraordinary," Schanck said. "These things don't happen every day."

After the ship sank just before 5 a.m. local time, 15 people, including a 1-year-old, were pulled from the water. Some were rescued from a life raft by the crew of a ship docked nearby.

Ricardo Thomas, the ship's cook and a native of Antigua, was found dead, according to authorities.

As of Tuesday, six people were missing, including Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter. Several missing passengers were involved in Lynch's trial on fraud charges, including Jonathan Bloomer, a Morgan Stanley chair who served as his character witness, and one of Lynch's attorneys. Lynch, accused of fraud after he sold his company to electronics giant Hewlett-Packard, was acquitted of all charges weeks ago.

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"The water spout was an uncommon occurrence," he said. "But again, these things happen, especially in warmer water."

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The water spout may have spun up when cooler air dropped from mountainous places nearby onto the hot water, he said. "A water spout is a vortex, basically like a tornado, spinning real fast, sucking up water and moisture as the column rises," he said.

Although water spouts only reach around 120 mph, as compared to tornadoes on land, which can reach up to 300 mph, "you don't need 200 mph to sink a ship," he said.

"Even an average tornado, 120 miles an hour, that's a lot of wind," he said, "which would heel the boat over for sure."

Water spouts spring up suddenly, Shema said. Before they strike, winds can be slow, but "once the water spout comes over, bam, it's on," he said.

Before sunrise, the ship's crew may not have seen the water spout coming. "The visibility was probably a big factor," he said.

With the windows of the yacht opened, as they likely were in the hot weather, the water spout could have triggered water that flooded through the portholes, Shema said, causing the ship to sink.

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Italian authorities said the Bayesian was probably at anchor when the storm struck, meaning it couldn't maneuver and ride the waves, according to Mitchell Stoller, a captain and maritime expert witness. Other ships in the area that turned on their engines rode out the storm, he said.

"When you're at anchor and you see weather, you start your engine and you put the wind on the bow. You don't let it get on the side," he said.

Schanck said another key question concerns the position of the keel, a heavy weight underneath the boat that acts as a counterbalance to keep it upright, when the ship sank. When lifted, "that's going to affect the stability of the vessel, because, obviously, you've now raised the center of gravity of that vessel," he said.

The Bayesian was floating over 160 feet of water at the time, deep enough that the keel would likely be deployed. But the fact that "the vessel heeled over so heavily makes me question that," Schanck said.

The cause of the disaster may not be known until the ship can be examined in more detail, experts say. Prosecutors in a nearby town have already opened an investigation.

Schanck said investigators will have plenty to work with once the operation moves into a recovery phase.

"The vessel is intact and in good condition on the seabed," he said. "There's a lot of eyewitness accounts from other vessels in the area and the shore."

As the search entered its second day on Tuesday, the rescue effort may shift in that direction soon. "I suspect, later on, today or tomorrow, we'll probably see some mention of a recovery operation being stated," Schanck said.

The decision to would depend on whether rescuers find signs of life in the ship and air pockets or survivable spaces, Schanck said. At this point, survivors on the water's surface looks unlikely. "My professional opinion is that the casualties will be located within the vessel," he said.

"There is a risk versus benefit in all maritime search and rescue incidents," he said. "Where we start transitioning to a recovery phase, that line shifts."

Contributing: Reuters

Cybele Mayes-Osterman is a breaking news reporter for USA Today. Reach her on email at [email protected]. Follow her on X @CybeleMO.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Experts puzzle over why Bayesian yacht sank. Was it a 'black swan event'?

Superyacht sinks latest: Investigators looking into possible manslaughter - Italian media

Divers have recovered the body of the final missing person after a superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily. The family of Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah have released a statement - with tributes also pouring in for the pair.

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• Divers discover body of final missing person
• 'Unspeakable grief': Lynch family releases statement
• Hannah Lynch's sister pays tribute to 'my little angel'
• Friend pays tribute to 'brilliant mind' Mike Lynch
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• Eyewitness:  Sombre scenes greet rescue teams as final body is brought ashore

We're pausing our coverage for tonight but here is a recap of what we know:

• The final body was found and recovered from the wreckage of the sunken Bayesian;
• Hannah Lynch, 18-year-old daughter of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, was the only person still unaccounted for;
• Tributes have flooded in for the teenager, including from her older sister Esme Lynch; 
• Oxford University, where Hannah was set to start studying English next month, also sent condolences;
• Authorities will now switch to a methodical and meticulous  "investigation mode", marine investigator James Wilkes told Sky News;
• He also said it was "unfair" to start blaming the crew of the Bayesian for its sinking before facts could be established;
• Italian authorities are expected to reveal further information about their investigation tomorrow morning in a news conference.

Italian authorities are expected to reveal further information about their investigation tomorrow in a news conference.

Prosecutors in the town of Termini Imerese, near where the Bayesian superyacht went down, will begin the news conference at 9am UK time.

Search and rescue teams finished their task of searching for those uncounted for from the Bayesian's sinking today.

Divers have spent all week searching the shipwreck, looking for six people missing after the vessel foundered on Monday morning.

Of those six, all but one had been found by this morning. At around 11am UK time, the final body, believed to be that of 18-year-old Hannah Lynch, was discovered.

It was brought to shore shortly after, signalling an end to five days of intense search operations.

Below, we have a look at some images from the operation today as it unfolded:

The speed at which the Bayesian sunk is "puzzling" and testimony from the crew will be "absolutely fundamental" in understanding how it happened, says the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Sailing Technology.

Dr Jean-Baptise Souppez, an expert in mechanical, biomedical and design engineering, told Sky News a vessel like the Bayesian "shouldn't sink that fast".

"For a ship that size to go down in a matter of minutes is particularly puzzling," he said.

"I think it's important to remember that all these vessels are built to very strong rules and regulations. And one of the reasons this is so puzzling is because those rules should ensure that this doesn't happen."

Investigations into the ship's foundering are already beginning to get underway, where the evidence supplied by survivors will be crucial, according to Dr Souppez.

"A lot of the job will be to try to establish a timeline of what happened prior to the events, in terms of the storm warning and what measures were taken on the vessel," he adds. 

"What happened during the crucial minute? From the moment the ship started to lean on its side up until it sank. For this, the accounts from the survivors and the crew will be absolutely fundamental.

"But it will also be a lot of physical evidence from the wreck that the divers have been able to collect, and more that they will be able to observe in the future."

A maritime investigator says the first priority of the Bayesian's crew would likely have been to prepare the ship for the oncoming storm, rather than wake all sleeping passengers.

James Wilkes said the watchkeeper on the yacht "might have considered" waking captain James Cutfield, who he "imagines would have been asleep" at the time.

"He would go down, wake him up, explain what he's got," Mr Wilkes told Sky News. 

"The master then would take over. He would make the decisions about raising the rest of the crew, if they're going to lift the anchor and start the engines, motor the vessel out pointed into the weather, that would require all the crew. 

"And I should imagine they would have also briefed some or all of the passengers. But their first priority would have been to get the vessel ready to take on the weather that was approaching."

Mr Wilkes added that those steps were likely taken but "by the sounds of it", the Bayesian was overwhelmed by the weather incredibly quickly.

British technology tycoon Mike Lynch was among the people who died following the sinking of the Bayesian superyacht on Monday morning.

The vessel had arrived off the coast of Sicily on Sunday, remaining at anchor 500m from the port of Porticello overnight.

At around 3.50am local time, a violent storm sent chairs and tables into the wind on the shore, while a mini-tornado known as a waterspout is believed to have ripped through the Bayesian.

Fifteen passengers and crew members made it onto a life raft and were picked up by a nearby boat, with seven people unaccounted for from the initial 22 on the ship's manifest.

All seven were found and recovered over the following days. They are believed to be:

Divers confirmed the entrepreneur's body had been recovered yesterday.

Dubbed the "British Bill Gates", Mr Lynch has been in the headlines in recent months over a high-profile fraud case related to the £8.64bn sale of his company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011.

HP accused him of deliberately overstating the value of the company before it was acquired by the American technology firm. Mr Lynch denied any wrongdoing. In June, a US jury  cleared him of all charges .

Hannah Lynch

Mr Lynch's 18-year-old daughter was also on board. A body believed to be that of the teenager was found and recovered from the wreckage today.

She had been on holiday with her parents, having secured a place to study English at the University of Oxford.

Her older sister, Esme Lynch, said her younger sibling was "endlessly caring, passionately mad, unintentionally hilarious and the most amazing, supportive and joyful sister and best friend to me".

Chris Morvillo

US lawyer Chris Morvillo was among those found dead by divers yesterday.

The father-of-two worked on Mr Lynch's US fraud trial and was a partner of law firm Clifford Chance's US branch.

He was also assistant attorney for the Southern District of New York between 1995 and 2005 and worked on the terrorist investigation into the 9/11 attacks.

Neda Morvillo

Mr Morvillo's wife Neda died in the disaster alongside her husband.

The 57-year-old had a luxury jewellery brand, which she ran under her maiden name Neda Nassiri.

Recaldo Thomas

The yacht's on-board chef Recaldo Thomas died in the sinking. He was Canadian-Antiguan and part of the crew of the Bayesian.

His body was the first to be recovered from the wreckage.

Jonathan Bloomer

Jonathan Bloomer, the chairman of investment bank Morgan Stanley International, was confirmed dead yesterday.

According to the Financial Times, Mr Bloomer appeared as a defence witness for Mr Lynch during his US criminal trial, and the pair were good friends. He also chaired Autonomy's audit committee.

The 70-year-old was the chief executive of UK-Hong Kong insurer Prudential until he was ousted by the board in 2005.

He was also chairman of the insurance provider Hiscox.

Judy Bloomer

Mr Bloomer's wife Judy was on the yacht trip with her husband. Divers confirmed they found her body yesterday.

Mrs Bloomer was a former board member at The Eve Appeal charity, which focuses on gynaecological cancers.

The charity described her as a "brilliant champion for women's health and medical research... an incredible supporter, committee member, and trustee of our charity for over 20 years".

More tributes have come in now for Mike Lynch, whose body was recovered from the Bayesian yesterday.

Close friend of the Lynch family Albert Read called him "warm, funny, brilliant, loyal and exceptionally brave".

"I've never met anyone like Mike - a searing intellect, a steel that would transform the world around him, an instinct for family and friends - organising children's treasure hunts, big gatherings of neighbours in Suffolk. 

"And, with Angela, a determination to light up the worlds of art and science for his two beloved daughters.

"Warm, funny, brilliant, loyal and exceptionally brave, with a heart as big as his brain."

The final body has now been retrieved from the wreckage of the Bayesian, leaving every person accounted for who was on the ship at the time of its foundering.

The captain of the yacht, 51-year-old James Cutfield, has reportedly already been questioned by Italian authorities for two hours.

He managed to survive the sinking along with 14 other passengers and crew members - including Mike Lynch's wife, Angela Bacares.

Mr Cutfield previously told Italian media "we didn't see it coming" when asked about the extreme weather that sunk the vessel.

His brother Mark said he was a "well respected" mariner who had captained luxury yachts for eight years and previously worked for a Turkish billionaire.

He told the New Zealand Herald he'd been involved in building yachts for 30 years and also raced dinghies competitively in his youth.

A maritime investigator says it is "unfair" to start blaming the crew of the Bayesian for its sinking.

Giovanni Costantino, CEO of The Italian Sea Group, which owns a firm which makes and sells vessels like Mike Lynch's sunken superyacht, told Sky News they "are absolutely safe", suggesting human error was behind the boat going down.

He said the "event" that capsized the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian off the coast of Porticello, Sicily, on Monday "could have been managed with an average amount of attention".

No official cause has been given for why the boat sank and James Wilkes, a marine investigator, says it's "premature" to start casting blame around before the facts are established.

"It's not uncommon to blame seafarers and the crew when a vessel has suffered a casualty of this magnitude," he tells Sky News.

"There were a lot of people who are understandably upset about this incident. And of course, the builders of this vessel potentially have their reputations on the line, their brand on the line. 

"You can imagine why they would be so forceful in their assertions and speculation at the moment. 

"But no, I don't think it's fair right now to jump to the conclusion that the crew must have done something wrong, because we simply do not know that as a matter of fact."

He added: "None of us were there at the time when it happened, it was only those 15 survivors on board who can tell us what happened.

"They were undoubtedly doing what they possibly could to keep that ship and the passengers safe. 

"So, I think at the moment we should wait to find out what the statements of the witnesses are, and then we can draw conclusions from that point forward. 

"It is definitely premature to start casting blame and spreading  aspersions around like that."

Hannah Lynch's older sister, Esme Lynch, has paid tribute to her late sibling after her body was recovered from the wreckage of the Bayesian.

The 18-year-old, who was due to start studying English at Oxford University next month, was the last person rescue divers were searching for in the wreckage.

Esme's statement says: "Hannah often burst into my bedroom and lay down with me.

"Sometimes beaming with a smile, sometimes cheeky, sometimes for advice. No matter what, she brought boundless love to me. 

"She was endlessly caring, passionately mad, unintentionally hilarious and the most amazing, supportive and joyful sister and best friend to me. 

"And on top of all this, she had even more love to give endlessly to all her friends and passion to give to her incredible studies and goals. 

"She is my little angel, my star."

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Lynch Yacht Sinking Off Sicily Proves as Baffling as It Is Tragic

As bodies were recovered, the authorities and experts wondered how a $40 million, stable and secure vessel could have sunk so quickly.

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By Emma Bubola and Michael J. de la Merced

Emma Bubola reported from Porticello, Italy, and Michael J. de la Merced from London.

Two months after being cleared in a bruising legal battle over fraud charges, the British tech mogul Mike Lynch celebrated his freedom with a cruise. He invited his family, friends and part of his legal team on board his luxury sailing yacht, a majestic 180-foot vessel named Bayesian after the mathematical theorem around which he had built his empire.

On Sunday night, after a tour of the Gulf of Naples, including Capri, and volcanic islands in the Eolian archipelago, the boat anchored half a mile off the Sicilian coast in Porticello, Italy. It chose a stretch of water favored by the Phoenicians thousands of years ago for its protection from the mistral wind and, in more recent times, by the yachts of tech billionaires. The boat was lit “like a Christmas tree,” local residents said, standing out against the full moon.

But about 4 a.m., calamity unfolded. A violent and fast storm hit the area with some of the strongest winds locals said they had ever felt. Fabio Cefalù, a fisherman, said he saw a flare pierce the darkness shortly after 4.

Minutes later, the yacht was underwater. Only dozens of cushions from the boat’s deck and a gigantic radar from its mast floated on the surface of the sea, fishermen said.

In all, 22 people were on board, 15 of whom were rescued. Six bodies — five passengers and the ship’s cook — had been recovered by Thursday afternoon, including that of Mr. Lynch, an Italian government official said, adding that the search was continuing for his daughter.

It was a tragic and mystifying turn of events for Mr. Lynch, 59, who had spent years seeking to clear his name and was finally inaugurating a new chapter in his life. Experts wondered how a $40 million yacht, so robust and stable could have been sunk by a storm near a port within minutes.

“It drives me insane,” said Giovanni Costantino, the chief executive of the Italian Sea Group, which in 2022 bought the company, Perini, that made the Bayesian. “Following all the proper procedures, that boat is unsinkable.”

The aura of misfortune only deepened when it emerged that Stephen Chamberlain, 52, a former vice president of finance for Mr. Lynch’s former company and a co-defendant in the fraud case, was killed two days earlier, when he was hit by a car while jogging near his house in England.

Since June, the two men had been in a jubilant mood. A jury in San Francisco had acquitted both on fraud charges that could have sent them to prison for two decades. There were hugs and tears, and they and their legal teams went for a celebratory dinner party at a restaurant in the city, said Gary S. Lincenberg, a lawyer for Mr. Chamberlain.

The sea excursion was meant as a thank-you by Mr. Lynch to those who had helped him in his legal travails. Among the guests was Christopher J. Morvillo, 59, a scion of a prominent New York family of lawyers who had represented Mr. Lynch for 12 years. He and his wife, Neda, 57, were among the missing.

So, too, was Jonathan Bloomer, 70, a veteran British insurance executive who chaired Morgan Stanley International and the insurer Hiscox.

The body of the ship’s cook, Recaldo Thomas, was recovered. All the other crew members survived. Among them was Leo Eppel, 19, of South Africa, who was on his first yacht voyage working as a deck steward, said a friend, who asked not to be identified.

Since the sinking, the recovery effort and investigation have turned the tiny port town of Porticello, a quiet enclave where older men sit bare-chested on balconies, into what feels like the set of a movie.

Helicopters have flown overhead. Ambulances have sped by with the sirens blaring. The Coast Guard has patrolled the waters off shore, within sight of a cordoned-off dock that had been turned into an emergency headquarters.

On Wednesday afternoon, a church bell tolled after the first body bag was loaded into an ambulance, a crowd watching in silence.

The survivors were sheltering in a sprawling resort near Porticello, with a view of the shipwreck spot, and had so far declined to comment.

Attilio Di Diodato, director of the Italian Air Force’s Center for Aerospace Meteorology and Climatology, said that the yacht had most likely been hit by a fierce “down burst” — when air generated within a thunderstorm descends rapidly — or by a waterspout , similar to a tornado over water.

He added that his agency had put out rough-sea warnings the previous evening, alerting sailors about storms and strong winds. Locals said the winds “felt like an earthquake.”

Mr. Costantino, the boat executive, said the yacht had been specifically designed for having a tall mast — the second-tallest aluminum mast in the world. He said the Bayesian was an extremely safe and secure boat that could list even to 75 degrees without capsizing.

But he said that if some of the hatches on the side and in the stern, or some of the deck doors, had been open, the boat could have taken on water and sunk. Standard procedure in such storms, he said, is to switch on the engine, lift the anchor and turn the boat into the wind, lowering the keel for extra stability, closing doors and gathering the guests in the main hall inside the deck.

12 guests occupied the yacht’s six cabins. There were also 10 crew members.

Open hatches, doors and cabin windows could have let in water during a storm, according to the manufacturer.

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The New York Times attempted to reach the captain, James Cutfield, who had survived, for comment through social media, his brother and the management company of the yacht (which did not hire the crew), but did not make contact.

So far none of the surviving crew members have made a public statement about what happened that night.

Fabio Genco, the director of Palermo’s emergency services, who treated some of the survivors, said that the victims had recounted feeling as if the boat was being lifted, then suddenly dropped, with objects from the cabins falling on them.

The Italian Coast Guard said it had deployed a remotely operated vehicle that can prowl underwater for up to seven hours at a depth of more than 980 feet and record videos and images that they hoped would help them reconstruct the dynamics of the sinking. Such devices were used during the search and rescue operations of the Titan vessel that is believed to have imploded last summer near the wreckage of the Titanic.

After rescuers broke inside the yacht, they struggled to navigate the ropes and many pieces of furniture cluttering the vessel, said Luca Cari, a spokesman for Italy’s national firefighter corps.

Finally, as of Thursday morning, they had managed to retrieve all but one of the missing bodies, and hopes of finding the missing person alive were thin. “Can a human being be underwater for two days?” Mr. Cari asked.

What was certain was that Mr. Lynch’s death was yet another cruel twist of fate for a man who had spent years seeking to clear his name.

He earned a fortune in technology and was nicknamed Britain’s Bill Gates. But for more than a decade, he had been treated as anything but a respected tech leader.

He was accused by Hewlett-Packard, the American technological pioneer that had bought his software company, Autonomy, for $11 billion, of misleading it about his company’s worth. (Hewlett-Packard wrote down the value of the transaction by about $8.8 billion, and critics called it one of the worst deals of all time .) He had been increasingly shunned by the British establishment that he sought to break into after growing up working-class outside London.

He was extradited to San Francisco to face criminal charges, and confined to house arrest and 24-hour surveillance on his dime. In a townhouse in the Pacific Heights neighborhood — with security people he jokingly told associates were his “roommates” — he spent his mornings talking with researchers whom he funded personally on new applications for artificial intelligence. Afterward, he devoted hours to discussing legal strategy with his team.

Despite his persistent claims of innocence, even those close to Mr. Lynch had believed his odds of victory were slim. Autonomy’s chief financial officer, Sushovan Hussain, was convicted in 2018 of similar fraud charges and spent five years in prison.

During Mr. Lynch’s house arrest, his brother and mother died. His wife, Angela Bacares, frequently flew over from England, and she became a constant presence in the San Francisco courtroom during the trial.

After he was finally acquitted, Mr. Lynch had his eye on the future. “I am looking forward to returning to the U.K. and getting back to what I love most: my family and innovating in my field,” he said.

Elisabetta Povoledo contributed reporting from Pallanza, Italy.

Emma Bubola is a Times reporter based in Rome. More about Emma Bubola

Michael J. de la Merced has covered global business and finance news for The Times since 2006. More about Michael J. de la Merced

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