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Moment tragic Bayesian yacht wreck is raised from depths after billionaire Mike Lynch, daughter & 5 others died on board
THIS is the tragic moment the Bayesian superyacht wreckage is lifted from the depths of the sea - after seven people died when it sank off the coast of Sicily last summer.
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Floating crane ships Hebo LIFT 10 and Hebo LIFT 2 recover part of the Bayesian yacht, June 20
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The top of the passenger area of the superyacht Bayesian being lifted
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The salvage operation began in May
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Tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah died following the horror accident
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The vessel sunk in just 16 minutes after being hit by a violent downburst.
Haunting images showed the
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Bystanders watched in awe as the multimillion-pound ship rose to the top of the water as it was dragged up by one of Europe's biggest cranes.
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A spokesperson for the rescue operation firm said the
The TMC Maritime official said they had been at work for the last three days to allow the steel lifting straps, slings and harnesses to be secured properly under the keel.
The top of the passenger area of the Bayesian was visible on Friday, but not the entirety of the vessel.
The huge £20million recovery undertaking has been plagued by delays and even
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Robcornelis Maria Huijben Uiben, 39, died when working 160ft below the ocean alongside other workers - just days after recovery operations began.
This has prompted some locals to believe that the sunken ship is "cursed".
Captain describes horror moment Bayesian superyacht sank as 'big black triangle' went under & vessel vanished off radar
A source with TMC Marine told
"She will remain half submerged until Saturday when the final lift will take place and she will then be sailed to a specially built cradle on the dockside."
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Workmen were seen on the vessel's deck fixing guide lines as crews geared up for the
next
phase of the tricky recovery mission.
When the wreck finally resurfaced, the Bayesian was missing its towering 236ft mast, which had been sliced off and left on the seabed to be hauled up later.
Salvage teams said the mast had to be cut away so the yacht's
hull
could be tilted upright and brought to the surface.
It comes after a
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Tycoon Mike Lynch's superyacht sank because it was vulnerable to wind, a report claims
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Italian coastguards at the Bayesian wreckage
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After examining the
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And they confirmed the vessel's critical weakness was that the ship was vulnerable to wind.
An interim report by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch said the yacht had a 'vulnerability' to lighter winds but the owner and crew would not have known.
It added it had 'limited verified evidence' as the criminal probe in
Italy
had restricted its access.
The major update comes amid the arduous
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Floating cranes, remote-controlled robots, and specialist divers amongst other marine experts have been brought in to recover the vessel.
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Lynch, 59, died as the yacht sank
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The Italian Coast Guard's Luigi Dattilo CP940 patrol vessel (left) assists Hebo Lift 2 (right) at the site
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A Hebo Lift 10 crane, thought to be one of the most powerful in Europe, arrived in Sicily on Saturday, May 3, from Rotterdam.
The first parts of tycoon Lynch's superyacht were raised from the seabed in late May
A pole which holds the bottom of the sail on the 184ft yacht was also recovered.
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Billionaire Dr Lynch was celebrating being cleared of a massive fraud over the sale of Autonomy to computer giant Hewlett-Packard in 2011 when the Bayesian went down.
The other victims were banker Jonathan Bloomer, 70, and his wife Judy Bloomer, 71, as well as US lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda Morvillo, and Canadian-Antiguan chef Recaldo Thomas.
A further 15 people were rescued.
Inside the Bayesian's final 16 minutes
By Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
Data recovered from the Bayesian's Automatic Identification System (AIS) breaks down exactly how it sank in a painful minute-by-minute timeline.
At 3.50am on Monday August 19 the Bayesian began to shake "dangerously" during a fierce storm, Italian outlet
Just minutes later at 3.59am the boat's anchor gave way, with a source saying the data showed there was "no anchor left to hold".
After the ferocious weather ripped away the boat's mooring it was dragged some 358 metres through the water.
By 4am it had began to take on water and was plunged into a blackout, indicating that the waves had reached its generator or even engine room.
At 4.05am the
An emergency GPS signal was finally emitted at 4.06am to the coastguard station in Bari, a city nearby, alerting them that the vessel had sunk.
Early reports suggested the disaster struck around 5am local time off the coast of Porticello Harbour in Palermo, Sicily.
The new data pulled from the boat's AIS appears to suggest it happened an hour earlier at around 4am.
Some 15 of the 22 onboard were rescued, 11 of them scrambling onto an inflatable life raft that sprung up on the deck.
A smaller nearby boat - named Sir Robert Baden Powell - then helped take those people to shore.
