Bayesian yacht sinking latest: Ship captain describes terrifying moment boat sunk ahead of Mike Lynch’s inquest

A rescue diver has disclosed the reason why Hannah Lynch’s body was the last to be found.

Speaking on a new ITV documentary, he said: “Because the girl was small, petite, her body was hidden behind mattresses, so it took longer to find her.”

He said the discovery of the 18-year-old’s body was a particularly devastating moment for those involved in the search.

The Bayesian drifted as far as 400 metres when the freak storm struck the superyacht off the coast off Sicily.

Tracking data from the Italian coastguard showed the vessel drifted 400 metres in the early hours of 19 August.

Just 16 minutes after the storm hit, the boat sank, accroding to a new ITV documentary on the tragedy.

The captain of a ship near the Bayesian has described the fatal storm in which the superyacht sank as “so full of water that it was difficult to breathe”.

Karsten Borner, captain of the Sir Robert Baden Powell, has been recounting the ordeal in a new ITV documentary airing tonight.

The captain of a ship near the Bayesian has described the terrifying moment he believes he saw the superyacht sink in Sicily.

In a new ITV documentary airing tonight, Karsten Borner, captain of the Sir Robert Baden Powell, said: “In the lightening, I saw a big, black triangle – and this might have been the moment when the ship sank ... We were looking at the radars and she was gone.”

The programme also recounted how Dr Lynch’s wife Angela Bacares described her ordeal as “terrifying” to local media after managing to survive the sinking.

A new ITV documentary on the tragic sinking of the Bayesian superyacht is set to begin.

The Sinking of a Superyacht — How Safe Is Your Voyage? is expected to explore the events leading up to the disaster as well as its aftermath.

Airing on the channel at 9pm, the programme is also due to look at the implications the fatal incident will have for similar voyages in the future.

The bodies of those who died after the billionaire Mike Lynch’s Bayesian superyacht sunk off the coast of Sicily were flown back to their families by private jet in September.

Italian publication Giornale di Sicilia reported post-mortem examinations were completed at a Palermo hospital and the bodies have now been returned.

Fifteen of the 22 passengers and crew survived the incident by clambering onto an inflatable liferaft.

My colleague Tom Watling reported at the time:

A new ITV documentary on the tragic sinking of the Bayesian superyacht is set to be broadcast tonight.

The Sinking of a Superyacht — How Safe Is Your Voyage? will air on the channel at 9pm.

The inquests into the deaths of British technology tycoon Mike Lynch, 59, and his 18-year-old daughter are set to open on Friday morning.

Inquests into the deaths of Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer, 70, and his 71-year-old wife Judy Bloomer are also due to open at Suffolk Coroner’s Court.

Seven people died on 19 August after the Bayesian superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily.

A chilling final picture of the Bayesian superyacht moments before it sank in Sicily reveals key clues on the sinking ahead of the inquests into the deaths of those who lost their lives in the tragedy.

In what ended up being one of the last photographs taken of the luxury vessel before it went down, a door in its hull appears to be closed, contradicting allegations crew mistakenly left it open and enabled water to flood the 56-metre yacht.

The image, which will be shown alongside another in an ITV documentary broadcast on Thursday evening, was snapped by a passenger on board a neighbouring yacht 14 minutes before the fatal incident on 19 August.

Prosecutors in Sicily launched are investigating three crew members as they continue to probe the disaster.