The Italian Coast Guard said it is searching for six people, including Americans, who were aboard a luxury yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily in a storm. The missing also included a British tech tycoon. Fifteen people were saved, including a 1-year-old child. NBC News' Steve Patterson reports.
ROME — Rescue teams and divers were searching Tuesday for six missing people, including a British tech magnate and a Morgan Stanley boss, after a luxury superyacht sank in a storm off Sicily. The identity of those still missing emerged after an initial search of the 184-foot sailboat, named the Bayesian, was unsuccessful on Monday. The British-flagged tourist vessel had 22 people aboard when it sank due to “a violent storm” off Sicily’s main city, Palermo, at around 5 a.m.
The coast guard said in a statement Monday that the ship’s cook had died. It did not give his nationality. Reuters identified him as Antiguan citizen Ricardo Thomas. A Clifford Chance representative said they could neither comment on or confirm the news that Morvillo was missing. He is a lawyer for Clifford Chance based in New York, according to the company’s website. A State Department spokesperson told NBC News they were aware of reports that U.S.
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