Divers have recovered the body of the final missing person after a superyacht sank off the Sicily coast. The family of Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah have released a statement - with tributes also pouring in for the pair.
The search operation to recover the bodies of those who died on board the Bayesian has been plagued with difficulties.But, after five days of searching, all the people who were unaccounted for following the ship's foundering on Monday morning have now been located and recovered.Conditions underwater have been described as 'complex' and 'prohibitive' for the divers, who have been called in from across Italy to help with the operation.
'Ms Rennie said divers would swap in and out throughout the day, taking part in a maximum of two dives each day.Visibility and entering the yachtGetting down to the wreckage was only the beginning of the difficulties posed to divers, who have been working in near pitch-black conditions on the seabed.Not only that, but finding entry points into the vessel, which is currently lying on its right side, have been hard. Upon entry, they've then been met with floating debris.
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