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Witnesses reported seeing the tornado-like phenomenon hit the Bayesian, a sailing yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily on Monday.
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What caused the sinking on Monday of a sailing yacht carrying the British billionaire Mike Lynch and 21 other people off the coast of Sicily is still unknown. But some attention has focused on observations by witnesses, who described seeing a small tornado-like column known as a waterspout forming over the water during an abrupt and violent storm as the vessel sank.
Fifteen passengers on the 180-foot yacht, the Bayesian, escaped on a raft before being rescued by a neighboring cruise ship. The body of the ship’s cook was recovered on Monday and six people remain unaccounted for , including Mr. Lynch and his daughter Hannah, according to officials with Sicily’s civil protection agency.
Prosecutors in the nearby city of Termini Imerese have opened an inquiry into the cause of the sinking.
Here is what to know about waterspouts, a surprisingly common weather phenomenon that may have helped sink the luxury yacht.
What are waterspouts?
Waterspouts are columns of spinning air and moisture — similar to tornadoes over water, according to the National Weather Service .
While some form in fair weather, and are aptly called fair weather waterspouts, another more dangerous variety called tornadic waterspouts develops downward from a thunderstorm. These tornadic waterspouts can either form as regular tornadoes over land and move out to sea, or form in a storm already over a large body of water, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association .
Fair weather waterspouts are weak, often dissipate quickly and do not cause major damage, according to the agencies, but tornadic waterspouts are more often associated with high winds, dangerous and frequent lightning, and hail. The Italian authorities recorded strong winds and intense lightning activity at the time the yacht went down.
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Experts say waterspouts may be more common than tornadoes, but because oceans are so vast, they are more difficult to track — and as difficult to predict.
“The Mediterranean is possibly one of the places where waterspouts are most likely around the world due to the warm ocean surface and a climate that is very susceptible to thunderstorms throughout the summer and autumn,” according to a statement by Peter Inness, a meteorologist at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Inness pointed to a 2022 study by scientists from University of Barcelona , which found that waterspouts occurred more frequently over warmer sea surfaces. The North Atlantic ocean has been unusually hot for over a year, repeatedly reaching record highs for the time of year , according to data from the oceanic association.
The International Centre for Waterspout Research on Monday said on X , the platform formerly known as Twitter, that it had confirmed 18 waterspouts near Italy in recent days, and several fishermen in the area of the accident told Italian media that they had witnessed a waterspout near the yacht.
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Karsten Börner, the captain of the nearby boat that rescued the 15 passengers, said in an interview that he saw the Bayesian about 490 feet away before the wind and lightning picked up.
While it was difficult to see what happened amid the storm, “my theory was that she was capsized first and then went down over the stern,” he said.
Towering over 237 feet tall, the Bayesian mast was one of the tallest aluminum masts in the world and it also had a special keel that could be raised or lowered, according to its manufacturer, Perini Navi. A keel is the downward-extending centerline underneath a boat that can help stabilize the vessel.
“In this case, having a tall aluminum mast would not make it the safest port to be in case of a storm,” said Andrea Ratti, associate professor of nautical design and architecture technology the Politecnico di Milano.
He added that “a lot of questions will remain until we have other elements at our disposal.”
Elisabetta Povoledo contributed reporting.
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Luxury yacht sinks off Sicily, leaving U.K. tech magnate Mike Lynch, 2 Americans among those missing
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Rome — Six people, including two U.S. nationals, a British technology entrepreneur and one of his daughters, were still missing Tuesday after a large luxury sailing yacht sank off the coast of the southern Italian island of Sicily during a violent storm. The 184-foot Bayesian had been anchored about half a mile off the port of Porticello, near Palermo, with 22 people on board — 10 crew members and 12 passengers.
The vessel sank at about 5 a.m. local time (11 p.m. Eastern, Sunday) after being hit by a possible waterspout spawned by the storm. Italian media said the winds snapped the boat's single mast, unbalancing the vessel and causing it to capsize.
Fifteen of those on board managed to escape the yacht and were rescued by a Dutch-flagged vessel that was anchored in the immediate vicinity. They were brought ashore by Italian Coast Guard and firefighters.
One body — an unidentified male — was recovered, but six people remained missing, including British software magnate Mike Lynch, once described as Britain's Bill Gates.
Lynch was acquitted in June of fraud charges in the U.S. that could have landed him with a decades-long prison sentence. In an unusual twist, Lynch's co-defendant in that fraud case, who was also acquitted, died Saturday after being hit by a car while out jogging in England.
Lynch's teenage daughter Hannah was also among those missing, along with Lynch's American lawyer Chris Morvillo, a former assistant district attorney in New York, and his wife Neda. British banker Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, was also still missing Tuesday.
Among the survivors was a 1-year-old British girl who was being treated at a nearby hospital along with her parents. They were doing well, according to Italian media.
"For two seconds I lost my child to the sea, then I immediately was able to grab her again in the fury of the waves," the girl's mother, identified only as Charlotte, was quoted as saying by Italy's ANSA news agency. "I held on to her tightly in the stormy sea. Many were screaming. Luckily the life raft opened up and 11 of us managed to get aboard."
"It was terrible," she told ANSA. "In just a few minutes the boat was hit by a very strong wind, and sunk soon thereafter."
Karsten Borner, the captain of the Dutch vessel that came to the rescue, told ANSA he had been anchored near the Bayesian.
"When the storm was over we noticed that the ship behind us was gone, and then we saw a red flare, so my first mate and I went to the position and we found this life raft drifting, and in the life raft was also a little baby and the wife of the owner."
Recovery efforts were back underway Tuesday, with speedboats, helicopters and divers continuing to search for the missing — as well as for answers, as to how a state-of-the-art superyacht could disappear in a flash.
According to Italian media, Fire Brigade divers reached the boat and saw bodies trapped inside some of the cabins, but they had been unable to recover any of the victims from inside the vessel by Tuesday, due to obstructions. The Bayesian appeared to have sunk in an area with a depth of about 160 feet.
Witnesses said the boat sank quickly.
"I was at home when the tornado hit," fisherman Pietro Asciutto told a local news outlet. "I immediately closed all the windows. Then I saw the boat, it had only one mast, it was very large. I suddenly saw it sink... The boat was still floating, then suddenly it disappeared. I saw it sink with my own eyes."
The director-general of Sicily's civil protection agency, Salvatore Cocina, confirmed to CBS News partner BBC News that three of the six people still missing Monday were British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, whose company Autonomy Corporation PLC was acquired in 2011 by HP ; one of his daughters, Hannah Lynch, who is believed to be 18; and the boat's chef, Ricardo Thomas.
CBS News has seen corporate documentation showing a company called Revtom, solely owned by Lynch's wife Angela Bacares, who was among those rescued from the accident, as the owner of the yacht that capsized off Sicily.
While the yacht was a privately owned pleasure boat, the waters around the island have claimed many lives over the last decade.
Dozens of migrants have died attempting to reach Sicily and smaller Italian islands in the region. Sicily sits only about 100 miles from the east coast of Tunisia in north Africa, and the Mediterranean crossing has been a frequent site of both nautical rescues and disasters as smugglers routinely send small boats overloaded with desperate people into the sea.
Alex Sundby , Joanne Stocker and Chris Livesay contributed to this report.
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UK tech tycoon among six missing after yacht sinks
British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter are among the six people missing after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of the Italian island of Sicily in the early hours of Monday morning.
The 56m (183ft) vessel was carrying 22 people including British, American and Canadian nationals. Fifteen people were rescued, including a one-year-old British girl, and authorities are continuing their search into the night.
Local media reported the yacht, named Bayesian, capsized at about 05:00 local time after encountering a heavy storm overnight that caused waterspouts, or rotating columns of air, to appear over the sea.
Mr Lynch, known by some as "the British Bill Gates", co-founded software company Autonomy, which was later bought by tech giant Hewlett-Packard for $11bn (£8.6bn).
Witnesses told Italian news agency Ansa that the Bayesian’s anchor was down when the storm struck, causing the mast to break and the ship to lose its balance and sink off the coast of village Porticello, near Sicilian capital Palermo.
A waterspout is similar to a tornado and can form over oceans, seas or large lakes.
Divers have identified a wreckage 50m below the water's surface and are searching for those missing.
The director general of Sicily's civil protection agency, Salvatore Cocina, told the BBC Mr Lynch, his daughter Hannah Lynch and the yacht's chef were among the missing.
He said the search, involving caving and rescue diving teams, would continue overnight.
The body of one man was found outside of the wreckage. His nationality has not been confirmed.
BBC Verify looked at corporate records and found the Bayesian's ownership is tied to Mr Lynch's wife, Angela Bacares.
Sources close to the matter have confirmed to the BBC Ms Bacares has been rescued.
Fifteen people managed to get to safety after the storm hit.
Ansa news agency reported a 35-year-old mother held her one-year-old daughter in her arms in the sea .
The woman, named as locally as Charlotte Golunski, said: "For two seconds I lost the little girl in the sea, then I immediately hugged her again amidst the fury of the waves.
"I held her tightly, close to me, while the sea was stormy. Many were screaming.
"Luckily the lifeboat inflated and 11 of us managed to get on board."
The baby is fine and the mother was treated with stitches, the agency said.
She added she had been on the boat with her husband, who is also safe, and colleagues from a London company.
A doctor based at the Di Cristina Hospital in Palermo, where some of the survivors were taken, said they were "very tired" and "constantly asking about the missing people".
Dr Domenico Cipolla told Reuters news agency: "We have given the survivors this information, but they are talking and crying all the time because they have realised that there is little hope of finding their friends alive."
Survivors said the trip has been organised by Mr Lynch for his work colleagues.
In the initial aftermath, a nearby Dutch-flagged vessel rescued survivors from the waves, tending to them until emergency services arrived.
Captain Karsten Borner said after the storm had passed, the crew noticed that the yacht that had been behind them had disappeared.
"We saw a red flare, so my first mate and I went to the position, and we found this life raft drifting," he told Reuters.
That life raft was carrying 15 survivors, three of whom were "heavily injured", he said.
A local fisherman told Reuters news agency he had seen people being rescued by an inflatable boat dispatched from another yacht.
The captain of a local fishing trawler said he saw debris, including cushions from the deck, floating in the sea.
Footage from the wreckage site showed helicopters circling over several coastguard vessels as divers wearing bright orange descended into the water.
Eight of those rescued are receiving treatment in hospital, the Italian coastguard said.
The western half of the Mediterranean has experienced severe storms since the middle of last week.
Through Sunday night and into Monday morning, a clutch of bad weather passed by the north coast of Sicily.
BBC Weather forecaster Matt Taylor said: "A waterspout is a tornado that has occurred over water rather than land.
"They can form during intense storms, on the base of cumulonimbus/thunder clouds.
"Turbulence, and the wind blowing in slightly different directions around the cloud, can cause rotation under the base of the cloud and the spout to form.
"Like tornadoes, they bring powerful winds, but instead of picking up dust and debris they cause a water mist around the column of rotating air."
The UK Foreign Office said it is supporting a number of British nationals and their families following an incident in Sicily. Britain's Marine Accident Investigation Branch is also sending a team of inspectors to conduct a "preliminary assessment" into the sinking of the UK registered-boat.
The Bayesian's registered owner is listed as Revtom Ltd. The superyacht can accommodate up to 12 guests in six suites.
The yacht's name is understood to be based on the Bayesian theory, which Mr Lynch's PhD thesis was based on.
Mr Lynch's wife Ms Bacares is named as the sole legal owner of Revtom registered in the Isle of Man.
A spokesperson for Camper and Nicholsons International, the firm that manages the 2008-built boat, told BBC Verify: "Our priority is assisting with the ongoing search and providing all necessary support to the rescued passengers and crew."
Mr Lynch sold his company Autonomy to American computing giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011 for $11bn (£8.6bn).
But an intense legal battle following the high-profile acquisition loomed over Mr Lynch for over a decade. He was acquitted in the US in June on multiple fraud charges, for which he had been facing two decades in jail.
The sinking of the yacht came on the same day that Mr Lynch's co-defendant in the fraud case, Stephen Chamberlain, was confirmed by his lawyer as having died after being hit by a car in Cambridgeshire on Saturday.
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Labour detention plan not likely to stop small boats, says former head of Border Force
Tony Smith, a former director general of the UK Border Force, said Labour's plan will only result in "modest removals" and a returns agreement with the EU is needed.
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Labour's plan to increase detention capacity is unlikely to stop small boat crossings and the "only real solution" is a deal with the EU, the former head of the UK's Border Force has said.
Tony Smith told Sky News while the new government's announcements - including reopening removal centres and staffing up the National Crime Agency (NCA) - showed it was "serious about immigration enforcement", the challenge is vast.
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The scepticism comes as a local MP in the area where one of the detention facilities is located vowed to fight the plan, saying the site has a "dark history" and accusing Labour of dodging scrutiny.
Mr Smith said that while the now-scrapped Rwanda scheme would have targeted people from high-intake countries - essentially those who would qualify for asylum - the focus now is on a smaller cohort of people who have no right to remain.
That will likely only lead to a "fairly modest" increase in removals, he said.
He added: "There are steps under way in the Home Office to try to raise the removals rate which are all good things.
"But it's going to be a big ask to see what kind of a dent this makes on small boat and irregular migration intake going forward."
'Only so much government can do'
The Tories' flagship Rwanda scheme intended to send people who arrived in the UK by small boat to Kigali to have their asylum claims processed there. If they were successful, they would have been granted refugee status to stay in the East African nation, not the UK.
The controversial plan failed to get off the ground after years of legal challenges, with Sir Keir Starmer declaring it "dead and buried" within days of taking office.
Labour's returns plan is different in that it will target people who are here illegally - for example, if their asylum claims are rejected because their home country is deemed safe.
However, Mr Smith said it is not always easy to remove failed asylum seekers, while lots of people who arrive by small boat will likely qualify for protection if they are coming from places like Iraq and Syria.
The prime minister's commitment to instead "smash the gangs" who smuggle people into the UK is "the right thing" he said, but "there's only so much the government can do".
"This is international organised crime. It requires an international approach," Mr Smith said.
In his view, the "only real solution" is a third-country agreement with the EU, such as sending migrants who cross the Channel back to France.
However, while "that is possible in international law", it would be "politically difficult" as the bloc would want something in return.
Returns down 40%
Labour campaigned on a manifesto to scrap the Rwanda scheme, calling it an unworkable "gimmick" that had already cost £700m without anyone having been sent there.
It vowed to divert the money into a "Border Security Command" to tackle people-smuggling gangs bringing migrants across the Channel, as well as clearing the asylum backlog to save money on hotels and removing people with no right to be here.
According to the Home Office, the removal of failed asylum seekers had dropped 40% since 2010, the start of the Conservatives' 14-year period in government before they were ousted in July.
Plans announced this week include bolstering the National Crime Agency (NCA) with up to 100 new specialist intelligence officers to disrupt immigration gangs and targeting businesses which employ illegal immigrants.
Labour also said they would increase detention capacity by re-opening two Immigration Removal Centres (IRC) - Campsfield House in Oxfordshire and Haslar in Hampshire - initially with 290 beds.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the beefed-up NCA will work with Europol to help "smash criminal smuggling gangs", while increasing returns will "establish a system that is better controlled and managed, in place of the chaos that has blighted the system for far too long".
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But Ms Cooper's opposite number, shadow home secretary James Cleverly, said it was a "pathetic response to a really challenging situation".
And Lib Dem MP Calum Miller said repairing the immigration system "should be done thoughtfully, not through a mid-summer press release when there can be no parliamentary scrutiny", as he warned he would fight the plan to reopen Campsfield House in his Bicester and Woodstock constituency.
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"When people are raising questions about how existing regimes are being administered, it's very questionable why you would then rush to expand it," Mr Miller said.
"I don't think this is about just having a concern about a local question. It is about a national policy question. And I do believe that MPs across the House will share those concerns."
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