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Update: Experts use remote controlled underwater vehicles to try to access Sicily yacht..by Mark Lowen, Reporting from Sicily

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For a third straight day, the divers will be racing to reach the cabin of the Bayesian super yacht, helped by remote controlled vehicles that can operate on the seabed for far longer than the rescuers themselves.

It is no longer survivors that they are trying to find, but bodies: of the six missing passengers, likely sleeping inside when the ship was hit by a tornado-like water spout, which tossed it underwater.

Dr Fabio Genco, from the Palermo Emergency Medical Services, treated the 15 survivors when they were brought ashore. The word that all the injured kept repeating was darkness. The darkness they all experienced during the shipwreck.

They spoke of about five minutes, from the moment the boat was lifted, raised by the waves of the sea, until it sank.

British investigators are here in Sicily, working to assess the disaster and whether measures were taken on board to mitigate the extreme weather, like closing hatches: all secrets that the Bayesian may have taken down with it to the bottom of the ocean.

Update: Body of UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch recovered from Sicily yacht but daughter still missing..by Mark Lowen, Reporting from Porticello

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The body of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been recovered from the Bayesian yacht off the coast of Sicily, a source close to the family has told the BBC.

The source also said they believe the person still missing is Mike’s 18-year-old daughter, Hannah.

While we wait for the sixth victim to be found, the investigation goes on.

The focus now is on whether human error was to blame. From the captain and the crew not taking measures onboard the yacht to mitigate the extreme weather and storm alert that had been issued before that terrible tragedy on Monday morning.

The wheels of justice move very slowly here in Italy. But there will be pressure on the investigators to wrap this up.

These are high profile victims - so there will be a lot of legal implications.

We know the investigators spoke to the captain, who survived, for two hours yesterday. He's 51 and from New Zealand.

Part of the focus is on whether there were storage compartments left open, allowing water to flood into the boat. And also on why there was no crew team on alert overnight when the storm happened, particularly given the fact there was a weather alert.

Another question: why was the yacht not harboured at port if the storm alert was out?

A ship surveyor told me yesterday there should have been a two-man watch team on board overnight.

The feeling is that there was a combination of factors that made the conditions ripe for this kind of disaster to happen.

Update: Manslaughter investigation begins over Sicily yacht wreck but no suspect identified..Report by Barbara Tasch, with Stefano Fasano reporting from Sicily

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Italian authorities are holding a news conference after divers found the final missing person from the sinking of a luxury yacht off Sicily.

Prosecutors say they are in the early stages of investigating a so-called "crime hypothesis" of culpable shipwreck and manslaughter, although they are not investigating anyone specifically at the moment

They also say the yacht, called the Bayesian, likely sunk because of a downburst. This is a localised, powerful wind that descends from a thunderstorm and spreads out unpredictably

Officials also confirm the body recovered on Friday was that of 18-year-old Hannah Lynch, the daughter of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch

Her father's body was recovered from the wreck on Thursday, along with four others

One body - that of Recaldo Thomas, the yacht's chef - was recovered from the sea on Monday

Of the 22 passengers and crew on board, 15 people survived the sinking, including a one-year-old child and Hannah’s mother, Angela Bacares

Hope they find him, and eventually the other missing too.

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My brother served in his regiment a few years later, the rumour mill about what happened was pretty horrific, although I believe has been denied in recent years by those involved.

It's all about immigrants.

Keep mentioning them even when there's a quiet five minutes because the agenda must be driven along.

But there never is a quiet five minutes..

So are you saying that there is not a problem...a """MAJOR ONE""" , almost to the levels of national emergencies here in the UK, Germany ,France and every other European country bar, Hungary and Poland etc.. due to mass immigration?

If so...with respect, you are completely delusional!