A seventh body is recovered from sunken superyacht off Sicily, believed to be Mike Lynch's daughter
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Italian rescuers have brought ashore the body of the final missing person who was on a superyacht that sunk off the coast of Sicily.

Italian rescuers brought ashore the body of the final missing person who was on a superyacht that sunk off the coast of Sicily.

The woman’s body was detected on Friday, the Coast Guard said. She has not been officially identified, but Hannah Lynch, the 18-year-old daughter of British tech magnate Mike Lynch, is reportedly unaccounted for. The Lynch family was aboard The Bayesian, a 56-meter (184-foot) British-flagged yacht, when went down in a storm early Monday.

Civil protection officials said they believe the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout, and sank quickly.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    77·
    4 months ago

    Amid all this attention to this one accident involving wealthy people, let’s not forget the thousands of poor people who drown in the Mediterranean each year:

    Number of recorded deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea from 2014 to 2024

    In 2023, it was estimated that 3,105 migrants died while crossings the Mediterranean Sea. As of May 2024, 880 casualties were recorded. However, the accurate number of deaths recorded in the Mediterranean Sea cannot be ascertained. Between 2014 and 2018, for instance, about 12,000 people who drowned were never found.

    Somehow we don’t hear much about them, but rich people dying at sea provokes days or weeks of media coverage.