The pair are among six tourists missing
The search for British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter is set to continue on Tuesday after their luxury yacht sank amidst a tornado near Sicily's coast. The two are among six tourists unaccounted for following the capsizing of the yacht, named Bayesian, during severe storms off Palermo's coast in the early hours of Monday.
Mr Lynch, who established the software behemoth Autonomy in 1996, was honoured with an OBE for services to enterprise in 2006. He was exonerated in June of allegations of a massive fraud connected to the 11 billion dollar sale of his company to Hewlett Packard. The yacht was ferrying 10 crew members and 12 passengers. Local media reports suggest that fifteen people, including Mr Lynch's wife, Angela Bacares, were rescued.
The daily Il Giornale di Sicilia newspaper reported that the vessel had mostly British passengers on board, but also individuals from New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Ireland and British-French citizens. British tourist Charlotte Emsley, one of the survivors, recounted her terrifying ordeal to la Repubblica, describing how she desperately kept her one-year-old daughter Sofia from drowning.
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