Four victims, who died on board tech tycoon Mike Lynch‘s superyacht, are feared to have suffocated to death in air bubbles that filled with carbon dioxide, according to their autopsies.
THE SUPERYACHT TRAGEDY
Seven people were killed when the Bayesian, a £30 million superyacht owned by the Darktrace founder, sank last month in just 16 minutes after it was hit by a violent downburst.
Autopsies carried out on victims at Palermo’s Policlinico hospital so far revealed they had no water in their lungs, raising the frightening possibility that they may have been conscious as the yacht sank, according to Italian news outlet La Republica.
Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer, 70, his wife Judy, as well as New York lawyer Chris Morvillo and his partner Neda had no signs of injuries, the Italian media suggests.
Among those who died when the vessel sank off the coast of the Italian island of Sicily at Porticello near Palermo on August 19 were Lynch, 59, and his daughter Hannah, 18, who was due to start at Oxford University later this month.
The Italian newspaper La Repubblica claimed the lungs of banker, Jonathan Bloomer, 70, and his wife Judy were ‘not full of water and neither were their stomachs or trachea’.
They went on to suggest that the couple had ‘suffocated’ after oxygen ran out in an air bubble below deck that had formed after the yacht sank.
It added that the bubble would have lasted barely any time at all as it would have been ‘small and quickly filled with rising levels of toxic carbon dioxide’.
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Among others who lost their live in the tragedy were lawyer Chris Morvillo and his partner Neda, with were also found to have no water in their lungs in post-mortem examinations carried out earlier in the week.
All the victims in the disaster were passengers except for the yacht’s chef Recaldo Thomas.
His body, which was found in the sea close to where the Bayesian sank, was the first to be recovered.
