Sicily yacht sinking LIVE: Five bodies found in wreck by divers searching for Mike Lynch and others
Five bodies have been found in the wreck of a luxury yacht that sank in a tornado off the coast of Sicily.
A "complex" search has been underway for six people - British tech magnate Mike Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, British couple Jonathan and Judy Bloomer, and American couple Christopher and Neda Morvillo - since the tragic sinking in the early hours of Monday.
The yacht – named the Bayesian – was moored half-a-mile off the coast of Porticello when it sank rapidly in severe weather, around 5am local time on Monday.
Search teams believed the six missing people were trapped inside the yacht’s sleeping cabins, but efforts to reach the rooms have been hampered by debris that obstructed access. Search efforts have also been hampered by the depth and angle of the vessel, which is lying on the seabed around 50m below the waves.
Divers scouring the wreck have now found the bodies of five of the missing six passengers, Sicily’s civil protection agency has confirmed.
One of the bodies belonged to a heavily built man, a source told news agency Reuters. Rescue teams did not immediately give the names or the sex of the drowned people, who are the second and third victims of the shipwreck to be found.
The body of the yacht's cook, Recaldo Thomas, was located shortly after the vessel sank. Fifteen other people escaped the tragedy on a lifeboat. Two remain missing.
See below for the latest updates.
Key points
Further two bodies found in luxury yacht
Two bodies found by divers scouring wreck
Mystery surrounds why Bayesian sank so quickly, but theories abound
British mother and baby were 'sleeping on deck of yacht' when storm hit
Recap: Who have divers been searching for on Bayesian?
Search teams 'aided by remote controlled vehicles'
Searches finish for day with one person still missing
19:39 , Daniel Keane
The head of Sicily's civil protection agency Salvatore Cocina has said that searches have finished for the day and will resume on Thursday.
He confirmed that five bodies have been found, but only four recovered.
One person remains missing, Mr Cocina said.
Fifth body discovered
18:12 , Daniel Keane
The head of Sicily's civil protection agency Salvatore Cocina confirmed that a fifth body has been found.
He said that four bodies have been recovered and that efforts to bring a fifth to shore are "ongoing".
Divers will be traumatised, says expert
17:48 , Daniel Keane
An expert has told the BBC that divers searching for the six missing passengers will be traumatised by the mission.
Bertrand Sciboz, who runs a company specialising in shipwreck research and salvage. said: “It's always a big trauma.
“The worst thing in this case will be taking off all the debris just floating everywhere in the yacht.”
Bodies taken away in ambulances
17:09 , Daniel Keane
Dozens of personnel from the Italian Coastguard and local fire service lined the port while the bodies were being taken to shore.
Ambulances were seen taking them away, escorted by police cars.
Hundreds of locals gathered to watch, as church bells were heard ringing out.
BREAKING NEWS: Two further bodies found in luxury yacht
16:09
Two further bodies have been found in the luxury yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.
The boat, owned by the wife of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, was carrying 22 passengers and crew and was anchored off the port of Porticello, near Palermo, when it capsized during a fierce, pre-dawn storm on Monday.
Two corpses were brought ashore from the wreck earlier on Wednesday.
Yacht chef 'incredibly talented with a contagious smile and laugh'
16:03 , Jacob Phillips
A friend of Recaldo Thomas, who was the chef on the Bayesian, has described him as “incredibly talented with a contagious smile and laugh”.
The on-board chef’s body was recovered on Monday and was the first to be found after the yacht sank.
A friend of Mr Thomas said: "He was one of a kind, a special human being. Incredibly talented, with a contagious smile and laugh.
“He had an incredible voice and a love of the ocean and the moon, and crystals. We are broken.”
Recap: Who have divers been searching for?
15:12
Of the yacht’s 22 passengers and crew, six people have been missing since Bayesian sank early on Monday. Fifteen others escaped on a lifeboat, while the yacht’s cook, Recaldo Thomas, was found dead shortly after the vessel sank.
As two bodies have been located on the wreck, here is a reminder of who divers have been searching for:
Mike Lynch, a well-known British tech tycoon who founded software giant Autonomy in 1996. He was cleared in June of conducting a massive fraud relating to Autonomy’s $11bn (£8.64bn) sale to Hewlett Packard. He is understood to have organised the yacht trip as a celebration for friends, colleagues, and lawyers after he was cleared.
Hannah Lynch, 18-year-old daughter of Mike Lynch. Hannah formerly attended west London private school Latymer Upper School.
Jonathan Bloomer, Morgan Stanley International bank chairman and non-executive chairman of insurance firm Hiscox. He is understood to be a close friend of Mr Lynch.
Judy Bloomer, long-time trustee of cancer charity The Eve Appeal, and wife of Mr Bloomer.
Christopher Morvillo, a partner at law firm Clifford Chance, who worked on Mr Lynch's fraud case to help secure the tycoon's acquittal in June.
Neda Morvillo, jewellery designer and wife of Mr Morvillo.
Read more here.
One of the bodies 'belonged to a heavily built man'
15:03 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
One of the two bodies found in the wreck is that of a heavily built man, a source has told news agency Reuters.
One body now removed from wreck - reports
15:02
One of the two bodies found by divers appears to have been lifted from the water, according to eyewitnesses.
What appeared to be a green body bag was taken back to the port of Porticello where dozens of emergency services staff were waiting.
Several boats seen heading to site of yacht
14:41
Several boats have just the port of Porticello to go to the nearby site of the sinking.
They left the port at the same time shortly before 3.30pm local time (2.30pm in the UK).
As we just reported just now, two bodies are reported to have been recovered from the wreck by divers who have been searching for four missing Brits and two missing Americans.
BREAKING: 'Two bodies found in yacht'
14:37
Divers scouring the wreck of the sunken luxury yacht Bayesia have found the bodies of two of the six passengers who were missing, a source close to the matter has said.
Rescue teams did not immediately give the names or the sex of the drowned people, who are the second and third victims of the shipwreck to be found.
The body of the yacht's cook, Recaldo Thomas, was located shortly after the vessel sank.
Yacht captain 'questioned for more than two hours' as brother describes him as 'very good sailor'
14:23
The captain of the Bayesian was reportedly been questioned by investigators for more than two hours yesterday, it has been reported this afternoon.
The captain, who has been named as 51-year-old New Zealandar James Cutfield, spoke to Italian media briefly from hospital on Tuesday. “We didn’t see it coming,” he said, in apparent reference to the storm that sank Bayesian.
His brother, Mark, told the New Zealand Herald today that Mr Cutfield is a "very good sailor", and "very well-respected" in the Mediterranean.
Investigators are reportedly in the process of gathering accounts from survivors of the tragedy, who are being housed at the Domina Zagarella Sicily hotel.
Police boats and divers with torches seen near wreck
13:55 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
There appears to have been a flurry of activity near to the site of the shipwreck this afternoon.
Divers from the local fire service have been seen entering the water with torches attached to their headgear.
A police boat and police divers were also seen entering the water.
The boats spent a short time at the scene before heading back to the nearby port.
A helicopter hovered overhead.
In brief: Five key points to bring you up to date
13:49 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Rescuers are trying to access sleeping cabins where six missing people are believed to be trapped, on board the wreck of the Bayesian yacht. They have so far been unable to access the rooms because of debris blocking the way.
The sunken yacht is lying on its right side on the seabed, at a depth of around 49m (160ft).
A remote controlled underwater drone is being used to aid the operation. The vehicle can remain on the seabed for up to eight hours, whereas divers can only dive to the wreck for a maximum of 12 minutes at a time.
Six people remain missing. They are British billionaire businessman Mike Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, fellow British couple Jonathan and Judy Bloomer, and American couple Christopher and Neda Morvillo.
The yacht is said by eyewitnesses to have sunk within a matter of minutes, but it is not yet clear why or how that happened. Four British inspectors from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) are expected to have a “preliminary” look at the site of the sinking today, and are expected to help establish what happened.
Rescuers have breached the sailboat's hull - reports say
13:17
Rescuers have told reporters in Sicily that they have breached the sailboat’s hull.
The Guardian reports that a cabin has been located, but access is currently blocked by furniture and other materials.
Elsewhere, investigators are questioning witnesses and survivors, with the sailboat’s captain James Cutfield interrogated for over two hours.
Remote drone can stay close to the seabed for hours
12:57 , Jacob Phillips
Earlier, the Italian coast guard said it was using a remotely operated vehicle to inspect the seabed and take underwater pictures and videos that may provide "useful and timely elements" for ongoing investigations into the disaster.
Divers can only remain submerged at that depth for around 12 minutes while the drones can inspect for hours.
An upgraded drone can stay underwater for six to seven hours at a depth of 300m, Sky News reports.
Divers seen entering water with torches at site of shipwreck
12:50 , Jacob Phillips
Divers from the local fire service were seen entering the water with torches attached to their headgear at the site of the shipwreck on Wednesday afternoon.
A police boat and divers were also seen entering the water.
The boats spent a short time at the scene before heading back to the nearby port.
A helicopter hovered overhead.
Sailor once survived four days in air pocket on capsized yacht
12:29 , Jacob Phillips
Hopes remain that the six people missing after a luxury yacht sank are sheltering in air pockets.
Experts have speculated that air pockets could have formed as the Bayesian superyacht sank during a storm off the coast of Sicily.Dr Jean-Baptiste Souppez, a senior lecturer in mechanical, biomedical and design engineering at Aston University, said the speed at which the yacht sank while remaining intact could favour the formation of air pockets.But the expert warned it is “impossible to predict” the conditions.
The most famous survivor of such an incident is solo round-the-world yachtsman Tony Bullimore.Bullimore’s amazing four-day fight for life inside the upturned hull of his capsized yacht captivated the nation in 1997.
The Bristol-based mariner survived by sheltering in an air pocket in his wrecked vessel while storms battered the craft in the icy Southern Ocean.
The yacht’s makers thought enough air could be trapped in pockets inside the hull for someone to survive for about 140 hours.
The only nourishment Bullimore had during his ordeal was a bar of chocolate and some fresh water.
'Eight-hour underwater drone' joins search
12:09
The Italian Coastguard has reportedly deployed a new underwater drone to help with the search and rescue mission.
Search teams are only able to dive to the wreck of Bayesian, which is at a depth of around 50m, for a maximum of around 12 minutes.
Their efforts have been helped by a remote controlled vehicle that could stay underwater up to two hours at a depth of 50m.
But Sky News reports this is now being replaced by an upgraded model, which can stay on the seabed for up to eight hours.
It is reportedly capable of taking detailed photos and video footage, which the Italian public prosecutor’s office will use to help establish the circumstances of the yacht’s sinking.
Debris blocking access to cabins where missing six are feared to be trapped
11:50
Italy’s fire service, which is leading the Bayesian search effort, has been unable to access the cabins of the yacht due to debris blocking the way.
Specialist firefighter divers have reportedly reached parts of the vessel through a gap, but are yet to make it to the sleeping cabins where the six missing passengers are believed to be trapped.
There is a “world of objects” blocking access to the rooms, fire department diver Marco Tilotta told Reuters news agency, according to the BBC. The debris is understood to include furniture and other items, which became dislodged during the sinking.
"If you manage to get inside, you understand there is a world of objects,” he reportedly said yesterday.
“So, getting inside and descending into the compartment below from the stairs that are narrow and going into all of the cabins is a really hard and difficult job.”
Mike Lynch's story is a 'Shakespearean sort of tragedy' says friend
11:20
A friend of missing Mike Lynch has described the sinking of the tech billionaire’s yacht just as he celebrated his name being cleared following a 12-year legal dispute as a “Shakespearean sort of tragedy”.
Brent Hoberman, a British entrepeneur who has reportedly known Mr Lynch for 28 years, told Sky News: “What an ordeal. This is a Shakespearean sort of tragedy.
"Somebody who spent 12 years defending their name - they just clear their name, they are going on a trip with the team who helped them do that to celebrate, and then a sort of one-in-a-million disaster hits their boat."
Mr Lynch is missing along with his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, a former London schoolgirl. His wife, Angela Bacaras, is one of 15 people who survived the tragedy.
Mr Hoberman added that he and Mr Lynch’s friends are maintaining hopes that the tech tycoon could still be found alive, and “will have an amazing second act”.
"God, what a amazing ending that would be," he said.
Read more about Mr Lynch’s extraordinary life story here.
Pictured: Emergency services at scene on third day of search
11:06 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
More inspections of sunken yacht carried out
11:02
Search crews have this morning carried out further inspections of the luxury yacht Bayesian, which is lying on the sea bed around 49m below the surface of the sea, with six missing people feared trapped inside.Fire crews from the Vigili del Fuoco said they have been accessing the vessel through natural entrances, without making openings.
Remotely controlled underwater vehicles are being used, with naval units and cave divers also taking part in the search, the Italian Coastguard has said.
British marine accident investigators expected to examine site today
10:32 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
A team of four British inspectors from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) have arrived in Porticello where they are expected to look at the site of the sinking.
They are understood to have arrived yesterday and are expected to carry out a “preliminary assessment” of the site, off the coast of Porticello, sometime today.
The MAIB is understood to be looking into what happened because the sailing yacht Bayesian was flying a British flag.
The Italian Coastguard said the MAIB is not involved in the search for the missing people.
'We are alive by a miracle' say survivors
10:23 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Survivors of the tragedy say they managed to escape “by a miracle”.
Staff members Leah Randall, a 20-year-old South African, and Kaja Chichen, a 22-year-old German, are among the 15 people who were rescued from a lifeboat.
“We are alive by a miracle,” they are quoted by Italian news agency ANSA as saying, through tears. “It was terrible.”
Survivors are recuperating at a hotel complex in Porticello where authorities are gathering witness statements.
Who are the six missing people?
10:17
Of the yacht’s 22 passengers and crew, six people remain missing. Fifteen others escaped on a lifeboat, while one man was sadly found dead.
Those missing are:
Mike Lynch, a well-known British tech tycoon who founded software giant Autonomy in 1996. He was cleared in June of conducting a massive fraud relating to Autonomy’s $11bn (£8.64bn) sale to Hewlett Packard. He is understood to have organised the yacht trip as a celebration for friends, colleagues, and lawyers after he was cleared.
Hannah Lynch, 18-year-old daughter of Mike Lynch. Hannah formerly attended west London private school Latymer Upper School, and had reportedly earned a place to read English at Oxford University.
Jonathan Bloomer, Morgan Stanley International bank chairman and non-executive chairman of insurance firm Hiscox. He is understood to be a close friend of Mr Lynch.
Judy Bloomer, wife of Mr Bloomer. She has been a trustee of UK gynaecological cancer research charity The Eve Appeal for more than 20 years and has been hailed a “brilliant champion for women’s health”.
Christopher Morvillo, a partner at law firm Clifford Chance, who worked on Mr Lynch's fraud case to help secure the tycoon's acquittal in June.
Neda Morvillo, jewellery designer and wife of Mr Morvillo
Read more here.
Bayesian was sunk by 'black swan' weather event, says expert
09:43 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Matthew Schanck, chair of the Maritime Search and Rescue Council, says the Bayesian was the victim of a "high impact" and rare weather event.
"Looking at the extreme weather, if it was a waterspout, which it appears to be, it's what I would class as, like, a black swan event," he told news agency Reuters.
"And even outside of the maritime industry, all industries struggle with the black swan events."
A ‘black swan’ event is an unexpected or hard-to-predict event that has severe consequences.
It is believed the Bayesian was hit by a waterspout - a phenomenon in which a whirling column of air, water and mist, forms over bodies of water. They share the same characteristics as tornadoes.
Mr Schanck says he is confident authorities will "get to the bottom" of what caused the shipwreck, thanks to the accounts of survivors, witnesses, and examination of the ship, which appears to have remained intact on the seabed.
Video shows search teams diving late into the night
09:36 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Italy’s fire brigade, Vigili del Fuoco, has shared video on X that shows its expert divers searching late into the night on Tuesday as they worked to access the Bayesian’s cabins.
The search “ended late yesterday evening and at first light the operations at sea resumed”, said the fire service in a post written in Italian. “The search for the six missing people...continues”.
❌ #Porticello #Palermo, si sono concluse nella tarda sera di ieri e alle prime luci del giorno sono riprese le operazioni in mare: proseguono le ricerche dei 6 dispersi da parte dei #sommozzatori speleo dei #vigilidelfuoco [#21agosto 9:30] pic.twitter.com/mJhEJQQF2d
— Vigili del Fuoco (@vigilidelfuoco) August 21, 2024
Twin of missing bank boss has 'fingers crossed' for positive outcome
09:28 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Jeremy Bloomer - whose twin brother, Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer, is among the missing - has said he is still hoping for a positive outcome.
"It's a slow process and it will take time,” he told the BBC. “So there might be air pockets, but we don't know. It's still wait and see, so fingers crossed.”
The Italian Coastguard has not ruled out the possibility that those missing may still be alive, with experts speculating air pockets could have formed as the yacht sank. But as time passes, hopes of this outcome are fading.
Survivors 'recounted five minutes of darkness' as stricken yacht sank
09:15 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
A doctor who treated the 15 survivors of Monday’s yacht sinking has described the “apocalyptic scenes” passengers and crew faced as the vessel went down.
Dr Fabio Genco, from the Palermo Emergency Medical Services, told BBC's Newsnight his primary concern had been to treat the one-year-old British baby who had been thrown overboard but was saved from drowning by her mother, Charlotte Golunski.
"The word that the mother and all the injured kept repeating was the 'darkness' during the shipwreck," Dr Genco told Newsnight.
"They spoke of about five minutes, from three to five minutes, from the moment the boat was lifted, raised by the waves of the sea until it sank."
Search teams 'aided by remote controlled vehicles'
09:05 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Search crews are reportedly using remote controlled vehicles, to help them reach rooms of the wrecked yacht where it is thought the six missing people are trapped.
Expert divers are working to reach the cabins of the Bayesian - which is on the sea bed at a depth of around 50m - but are each limited to about 12 minutes below the water before they must resurface.
They are being helped by remote controlled vehicles that are able to operate on the ocean’s floor for longer than the divers, according to the BBC.
Photos show divers preparing to head to wreck of yacht
08:52 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Specialist divers from Italy’s fire brigade, who have been leading the search effort, have been pictured at the port of Porticello this morning as they prepare to head out to the scene of the wreck.
As we reported earlier, they will be resuming their efforts to access the Bayesian’s cabins, where the six missing people are thought to be trapped.
Mystery still surrounds how and why yacht sank so quickly, but theories abound
08:35 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
How and why the 56-metre luxury yacht sank so quickly has not yet been established, but theories have abounded.
Bayesian was moored off the port of Porticello, near Palermo, when it was hit by violent weather shortly before 5am local time (4am in the UK) on Monday - reportedly sinking in the dark in just “two minutes”.
Another yacht, the 42-metre Sir Robert Baden Powell, was anchored nearby. But it weathered the storm after its captain, Karsten Borner, turned on the engine, to keep control of the vessel and avoid a collision with the Bayesian.
Mr Borner said he did not know if the crew of the Bayesian had managed to switch on its engines. "I don't think they did things wrong, I think they were surprised by the power of the storm," he told Reuters.
"I only know that they went flat with the mast on the water and that they sank in two minutes," he said, adding that the storm was "very violent, very intense," bringing in "a lot of water and I think a turning system like a tornado."
James Catfield, who captained Bayesian, spoke to Italian news outlet La Repubblica from his hospital room following the tragedy. He said only: “We didn’t see it coming.”
Andrea Ratti, a nautical design professor at Milan Polytechnic university, said a boat the size of the Bayesian could only sink so rapidly by taking in a huge amount of water.
He suggested that one or more portholes, windows or other openings may have been broken or smashed open by the waterspout, letting in water.
There has also been speculation that a major hatch might have been inadvertently left open.
But a British industry expert said it should have taken hours for the Bayesian to fill up with enough water to sink it, making its rapid demise incomprehensible.
"I don't think the industry has ever faced anything like this. It's a horror story," he told news agency Reuters said, declining to be named.
Rescuers facing 'complex' task as they try to enter cabins
08:08 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Rescuers are today set to resume their efforts to access the cabins of the sunken Bayesian.
Divers yesterday managed to enter the hull of the boat by breaking through a window made of three-centimetre glass using jacks made by a local blacksmith, local news outlet Giornale di Sicilia reported.
They reportedly then managed to access some communal areas, but at the point when yesterday’s search was called off, had not yet managed to reach the yacht’s cabins.
Rescue crews believe the six missing tourists will be found in the cabins, but a “world” of debris has so far blocked access to the rooms.
Specialist divers from Italy’s fire brigade, Vigili del Fuoco, are leading the search mission.
It describes the operation as "complex", with divers limited to 12-minute underwater shifts. The Bayesian is resting on the seabed off the coast at a depth of 50 metres.
Wife and mother of missing Brits in 'state of shock and sadness'
07:48
Angela Bacares - wife of tech tycoon Mike Lynch and mother of 18-year-old Hannah, both of whom are missing - is one of 15 people who escaped Monday’s tragedy on a lifeboat.
Ms Bacares is in a "state of shock and sadness" as she awaits news, The Mirror has reported.
She has reportedly been joined by the couple's elder daughter, who was not aboard the boat.
Ms Bacares previously told how she and Mr Lynch had been asleep in their cabin when the yacht “tilted” suddenly as a storm hit in the early hours of Monday, waking them.
She rose to investigate, when the yacht’s glass windows smashed, throwing those on board into confusion. The Bayesian is said to have sunk within a matter of minutes.
Friend of Mike Lynch hoping for 'miracle'
07:28
David Tabizel, who co-founded software company Autonomy with Mike Lynch in 1996, has told Sky News: “I hope there's a miracle about to occur."The Italian Coastguard has not ruled out the possibility that those missing, including technology tycoon Mr Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, may still be alive, with experts speculating air pockets could have formed as the yacht sank.
Mr Tabizel told Sky News: “If anyone has the resilience to survive this - he [Mr Lynch] does. And I hope he's found an air pocket.”
"He has been one of the most influential, intelligent and most honourable human beings I have ever had the honour of knowing,” he added, saying he is “heartbroken for him and his family”.Mr Lynch - known as the ‘Bill Gates of Britain’ - was cleared in June of conducting a massive fraud relating to the $11bn (£8.64bn) sale of Autonomy to US company Hewlett Packard.
The boat trip was a celebration of his acquittal.
British mother and baby were 'asleep on deck of yacht' when storm hit
07:16 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
British mother Charlotte Golunski is among the 15 people who survived Monday’s tragedy - along with her husband and their one-year-old daughter Sofia.
It has now emerged she and and her baby were asleep on the deck of the luxury boat when the storm hit and they were thown into the sea.
The head of paediatric care at the Palermo hospital where Sofia was treated told Sky News: “She said that she was sleeping with the child on deck while her husband was a little further away in another part of the boat and she felt the oscillations of the ship.
"In an instant it was dark and she found herself in the water in just a few minutes. She said she tried to hold on to the child but lost the child from her grip for three seconds.
"She then managed to catch her in the water."
Mrs Golunski previously told Italian news outlet la Repubblica how she fought to keep her baby from drowning after finding themselves in the darkened sea.
“For two seconds I lost my daughter in the sea then quickly hugged her amid the fury of the waves,” she told the newspaper.
“I held her afloat with all my strength, my arms stretched upwards to keep her from drowning.”
Mrs Golunski is understood to be a partner at Mike Lynch’s firm Invoke Capital.
She, her husband, and their daughter were all discharged from hospital on Tuesday.
Search to enter third day
07:06 , Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Good morning, and welcome to the Standard’s live blog.
It has now been more than 50 hours since the Bayesian superyacht sank off the northern coast of Sicily, with 22 crew and guests on board.
Six people including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah remain missing.
A major search operation has been underway since early on Monday, when the yacht sank after being hit by what is believed to have been a waterspout - a tornado at sea.
Rescuers will today be resuming their efforts to access the cabins of the sunken vessel, where the six missing people are thought to be trapped.
Fifteen other people survived the tragedy and escaped on a lifeboat, while one man was found dead.
We will be bringing you all the latest updates throughout the day, as the tense operation continues.
