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SUPER SPORTIVO GTO 100

29.6m (97.1 ft)

6.83m (22.4 ft)

1.35m (4.4 ft)

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ISA Super Sportivo 100ft GTO is the new silver colour arrow with a sporty design featuring a carbon fibre infused hull combined with a lightweight carbon superstructure.

Performance is certainly the main ingredient thanks to her three 2,000 hp MAN engines and hydrojet propulsion which, during the first sea trials, allowed to reach a maximum speed of 55 knots. Therefore, this model becomes fully part of the worldwide fastest boats currently on the market in this category.

A top-level technical team led by Engineer Arnaboldi and specialized in performance boats worked side-by-side to develop the water lines and aerodynamics. ISA SS 100ft GTO took shape at the Palumbo Superyachts shipyard, Ancona; Marco Casali (Too Design) looked after both the exterior and the interior, liaising with the carbon fibre specialized staff of the site technical office. Once again, ISA Yachts confirms itself as an innovative and dynamic brand capable of facing increasingly exciting challenges.

The sleek lines are emphasized by the high deep-V shaped bow and by the profile that drops rapidly down to the stern. The deckhouse has a pronounced sheer line that perfectly matches the large double-curved front windows of 5 sqm each, divided by the gull-wing door to access the cockpit.

The boat performance is stylistically amplified by the big air intakes playing a dynamic role when positioned above the hard top.

The interior, available in several options from 3 to 5 guest cabins in addition to the two crew cabins accommodating 4 people with separate access from the cockpit, are totally customizable and characterized by a design aimed to maximise light and confer an iconic architecture on spaces.

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ALDABRA is a 29.6 m Motor Yacht, built in Italy by ISA and delivered in 2021. She is the only Super Sportivo 100 GTO model.

Her top speed is 50.0 kn, her cruising speed is 44.0 kn, and she boasts a maximum cruising range of 550.0 nm at 12.0 kn, with power coming from three MAN diesel engines. She can accommodate up to 8 guests in 4 staterooms, with 4 crew members waiting on their every need. She has a 6.83 m beam.

She was designed by Marco Casali , who also designed the interior. Marco Casali has designed 3 yachts and designed the interior of 3 yachts for yachts above 24 metres.

The naval architecture was developed by ISA , who has architected 21 other superyachts in the BOAT Pro database - she is built with a Teak deck, a Carbon Fibre and Composite hull, and Carbon Fibre and Composite superstructure.

ALDABRA is in the top 5% by speed in the world. She is one of 5856 motor yachts in the 24-30m size range, and, compared to similarly sized motor yachts, her cruising speed is 21.79 kn above the average, and her top speed 23.49 kn above the average.

ALDABRA is registered under the United Kingdom flag, the 4th most popular flag state for superyachts with a total of 902 yachts registered

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• Name: ALDABRA
• Yacht Type: Motor Yacht
• Yacht Subtype: Sports/Open Motor Yacht , Planing Fast Yacht
• Model: Super Sportivo 100 GTO
• Builder: ISA
• Naval Architect: ISA
• Exterior Designer: Marco Casali
• Interior Designer: Marco Casali
• Refits: 2021,2021,2022

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Motor yacht ALDABRA is a stunning silvery black ISA Super Sportivo 100ft GTO model from ISA Yachts launched in 2021 and featuring the exterior and interior styling talents of Marco Casali from Too Design, creating futuristic living spaces that play on light manipulation through texture, large glazed surfaces and a mostly monochrome colour scheme. The accommodation sleeps up to 10 guests over five en-suite cabins, and there is a professional crew of four to take care of all the details.

NOTABLE FEATURES OF ALDABRA: ~Top speed of 55 knots ~Carbon fibre hull and superstructure ~Exquisite futuristic interiors ~Bright and spacious guest accommodation ~Plenty of sunbathing areas ~Air conditioning ~Wi-Fi

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Built with a carbon composite hull and a carbon superstructure, open yacht ALDABRA has a light weight that affords her access to the best anchorages in her cruising ground due to her shallow draft. It also grants excellent manoeuvrability and little resistance for a top speed of 55 knots, making this 29.6m/97.1 ft vessel one of the fastest available in her size category.

The main deck aft is fitted with a curving sofa both sides of the doorway into the interior and the area is shaded by the hardtop. Another sofa aft integrates into the broad sunbed along the stern, and on the swim platform below there is another sofa for guests to rest while waiting for the tender, or to simply enjoy the sights close to the water.

The foredeck is designed as an alcove with a sofa lining both sides, and farther along the bow a pair of sunbeds offer a place to rest in the sunshine after hours of fun on the water toys or exploring every destination.

The lower deck hosts the guest and crew accommodation, with the engine room behind and the tender garage for 4m/13ft tender with water toys storage in the stern.

ALDABRA Specifications

On the main deck the cockpit is forward along with a corner sofa to port and starboard and a central doorway leading out onto the flybridge. Behind, both sides of the room are fitted with an L-shaped sofa, and the starboard side has a large table for formal dining as a group. A glass sliding door leads out onto the main deck aft.

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The accommodation sleeps a maximum of 10 guests in 5 en-suite cabins: 1 Master suite and 4 further guest cabins. ~ The Master suite is amidships on the lower deck, and has a his-and-hers en-suite bathroom with a shared central shower. ~ The professional crew of 4 are accommodated over 2 cabins.

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5th body recovered from Mike Lynch's family yacht off Sicily as questions mount over luxury vessel's sinking

By Anna Matranga

Updated on: August 22, 2024 / 10:48 AM EDT / CBS News

Rome — Divers recovered the body of a fifth victim of the Bayesian superyacht wreck Thursday morning, Sicily Civil Protection Chief Salvo Cocina confirmed to CBS News, and the Reuters news agency cited Italian Interior Ministry official Massimo Mariani as saying it was the body of Mike Lynch, the British tech magnate whose wife owned the vessel.

Italian Coast Guard spokesperson Vincenzo Zagarola told CBS News that teams were still working to recover the body of the sixth and final person left missing when the boat went down. The six bodies had remained stuck inside the 184-foot luxury yacht for days after it sank early Monday morning off the coast of Palermo, Sicily in a severe thunderstorm.

Four bodies were retrieved Wednesday from the Bayesian, which was resting on the seafloor at a 90 degree angle at a depth of over 160 feet. The vessel's position and items that moved around inside the ill-fated yacht made recovery efforts slow and hazardous.

Italian authorities have not officially identified the remains recovered from the Bayesian, which belonged to Lynch's wife Angela Bacares. She was among the 15 people who managed to escape from the boat as it sank quickly on Monday morning, but Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah were among those left missing.

Another victim, the Bayesian superyacht's chef, was found dead soon after the boat capsized. 

Along with Lynch and his daughter, the technology mogul's American lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda, and British banker Jonathan Bloomer and his wife, were believed to have been trapped in the yacht when it sank.

Questions as to how the state-of-the-art boat could have gone down so quickly have mounted steadily since the accident. 

Italian media were reporting Thursday that, after questioning survivors and witnesses, Italian prosecutors had opened an official investigation into a possible "culpable shipwreck." No individuals had been named as potential suspects.

On Thursday, Giovanni Costantino, head of the Italian Sea Group, which owns the company Perini Navi, which built the Bayesian in 2008, blamed human error.

"A Perini ship resisted Hurricane Katrina, a Category 5 [hurricane]. Does it seem to you that it can't resist a tornado from here?" he remarked to the newspaper Corriere della Sera. "It is good practice when the ship is at anchor to have a guard on the bridge, and if there was one he could not have failed to see the storm coming. Instead, it took on water with the guests still in the cabin. ... They ended up in a trap, those poor people ended up like mice."

One possible factor could have been that the ship's keel — a fin-like structure that sticks out from the bottom of the boat, designed to provide stability and counterweight to the huge mast — was not fully deployed. The yacht had a retractable keel that could be raised for entry into shallow harbors. But a raised keel at sea would have made the ship much more vulnerable to instability in the strong winds that struck early Monday morning.

When asked whether divers had seen the ship's keel in a raised position, a spokesman for the Italian Coast Guard told CBS News that only the prosecutor investigating the incident could confirm such information but that the Coast Guard "was not denying" it. 

The ship's captain, 51-year-old New Zealand national James Cutfileld, was questioned for two hours by prosecutors on Thursday, according to Italian media.

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ALDABRA Yacht

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The ALDABRA yacht is a 167.4ft / 51m luxury yacht built and launched by yacht builder Codecasa . Delivered to a proud yacht owner in 2011, this luxury yacht sleeps up to 12 guests in 6 staterooms and has accommodations for 11 crew. She has a beam of 31.3ft / 9.5m, a draft of 11.6ft / 3.5m, and she measures in at 640 gross tons. Her hull is steel and her decks are teak. Her max speed is 17 knots and cruising speed is 16 knots. She is propelled by 2 engines at 2,447 hp each.

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Motor Yacht

Aldabra is a custom motor yacht launched in 2011 by Codecasa.

Aldabra measures 51.00 metres in length, with a max draft of 3.50 metres and a beam of 9.50 metres.

Aldabra has a steel hull with an aluminium superstructure.

Her interior design is by Della Role Design.

Aldabra also features naval architecture by Codecasa.

Performance and Capabilities

Aldabra has a top speed of 17.5 knots. She is powered by a twin screw propulsion system.

Aldabra has a fuel capacity of 80,000 litres, and a water capacity of 19,000 litres.

She also has a range of 4,000 nautical miles.

Accommodation

Aldabra accommodates up to 12 guests in 2 cabins. She also houses room for up to 8 crew members.

Other Specifications

Aldabra is MCA compliant, her hull NB is C.116.

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'My little angel': Sister of final yacht victim Hannah Lynch speaks for first time since tragedy

Mike Lynch, 59, was confirmed dead on Thursday after the Bayesian superyacht he was holidaying on sunk in the early hours of Monday. Divers recovered the final missing body from the wreckage on Friday, which is believed to be that of his 18-year-old daughter Hannah.

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The Lynch family have said they are "devastated" and "in shock" but are being "comforted and supported by family and friends" after the Bayesian superyacht tragedy.

British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, 59, was confirmed dead by local authorities on Thursday after the yacht he was holidaying on sunk in the early hours of Monday.

Family release statement; superyacht sinking latest

Divers recovered the final missing body from the wreckage on Friday , which is believed to be that of his 18-year-old daughter Hannah. Her mother and Mr Lynch's wife Angela Bacares survived the disaster.

'She is my little angel, my star'

Miss Lynch's sister, Esme, said in a statement on Friday: "Hannah often burst into my bedroom and lay down with me.

"Sometimes beaming with a smile, sometimes cheeky, sometimes for advice.

"No matter what, she brought boundless love to me. She was endlessly caring, passionately mad, unintentionally hilarious and the most amazing, supportive and joyful sister and best friend to me.

"And on top of all this, she had even more love to give endlessly to all her friends and passion to give to her incredible studies and goals. She is my little angel, my star."

A spokesperson for the family said in a statement on Friday: "The Lynch family is devastated, in shock and is being comforted and supported by family and friends.

"Their thoughts are with everyone affected by the tragedy. They would like to sincerely thank the Italian coastguard, emergency services and all those who helped in the rescue. Their one request now is that their privacy be respected at this time of unspeakable grief."

Tributes have since poured in for both members of the family.

'Lit up the classroom'

Miss Lynch "lit up the classroom with her energy, passion for learning and sheer intelligence", Jon Mitropoulos-Monk, head of English at Latymer Upper School in west London, said.

"I've never taught someone who combined sky-high intellectual ability with warmth and enthusiasm in the way Hannah did," he said on Friday.

He added that when she was awarded her place to study at Oxford she sought out every member of staff to "thank them individually and give them a hug".

Family friend Patrick Jacob said he has "never met anybody like Hannah", describing her as "charming and ferociously intelligent with an insatiable thirst for life and knowledge".

"We have lost one of our brightest stars whose future held so much promise. Her loss is unbearable," he added.

Miss Lynch's school friend Katya Lacie said she had a "beautiful soul".

"Being with Hannah made me feel whole and happy. She is the most special friend anyone could ask for and I will always love Hannah," she said.

Andrew Kanter, a close friend and former colleague of her father, described Mr Lynch as "the most brilliant mind and caring person I have ever known".

"There is simply no other UK technology entrepreneur of our generation who has had such an impact on so many people," he said.

Sushovan Hussain, a school friend and former colleague of Mr Lynch, also knew Morgan Stanley chairman Jonathan Bloom, his wife Judy, and Mr Lynch's lawyer Chris Morvillo, who also died when the yacht sunk.

He said Mr Lynch's death "leaves an unfillable hole in my life", adding it is "tragic beyond words".

Survivor remembers 'diamond' Hannah

Sasha Murray, the chief stewardess on the Bayesian, who survived the sinking, said in a statement those who knew Hannah knew she was "a diamond in a sea of stars".

After calling her "bright, beautiful and always shining," Ms Murray said: "What most people may not have seen was the extraordinarily strong, deep and loving relationship she shared with her parents, whom she adored more than anything.

"While swimming with them she often said, if anything ever happened she would save them.

"I have no doubt that the Irish, Latina fire that burns in her soul kept that spirited determination alive."

'A heart as big as his brain'

Family friend Albert Read said he "never met anyone like Mike".

Mr Read described him as "a searing intellect, a steel that would transform the world around him, an instinct for family and friends - organising children's treasure hunts, big gatherings of neighbours in Suffolk - and, with Angela, a determination to light up the worlds of art and science for his two beloved daughters.

"Warm, funny, brilliant, loyal and exceptionally brave, with a heart as big as his brain."

'Fantastic neighbour'

Ruth Leigh lived next door to Mr Lynch in Suffolk for 15 years.

On Thursday, she described them as "fantastic neighbours" and said the tech tycoon "never played on his position" and was "very friendly and down-to-earth" despite his fortune.

"Even though they were wealthy and influential people there was never any airs and graces," Ms Leigh told Sky News.

"He always went to the trouble of remembering your name, of asking after your partner or your children. From the very start they were fantastic neighbours - very friendly and down-to-earth.

"He'd come from a very ordinary background and through his own brains and intellect, he'd made a really great company and come up with some incredible ground-breaking tech. He was always very moral. He gave to charity very generously and never played on his position."

She described his death so soon after the end of his legal troubles as "the saddest thing I've ever heard".

"The whole point about this trip to Italy was taking his friends and family to say thank you. That's what makes it even more tragic," she added.

"Losing somebody so kind, compassionate, and full of integrity must leave a hole that cannot be filled."

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Mr Lynch was extradited to the US and spent a year under house arrest in San Francisco before he was cleared of 15 charges of fraud earlier this summer by a jury.

Prosecutors claimed he deliberately overstated the value of Autonomy, the company he founded in 1996, when he sold it to Hewlett Packard in 2011. He always denied wrongdoing.

'Brain the size of a planet'

His former colleague told Sky News on Thursday he had a "brain the size of a planet" and was a "lovely man".

David Tabizel co-founded Autonomy with Mr Lynch and the pair remained good friends. He described him as a "remarkable individual" and the "brightest man I've met in my life".

"He had a remarkable set of personality traits that we rarely see in Britain," he said.

"Before him there was no British tech scene. He showed us we can be world-class."

Mr Tabizel told of Mr Lynch's "inner child", that he "loved video games", had a life-size train set in his garden, and how they animated a cartoon dog for their office, for which they both recorded the "barking noises".

Commenting on his legal struggles, Mr Tabizel said he "never heard him lie or exaggerate" and he was "interested in the truth... in cutting through the noise".

"For him to be accused of manipulating his profits. It was an extraordinary thing. It just wasn't Mike. I loved that man and he should be celebrated as a hero."

David Yelland, Mr Lynch's former PR adviser and former editor of The Sun newspaper, paid tribute to him in a post on X.

He said: "All those that knew and loved Mike are thinking of Angela and their surviving daughter Esme as they struggle to come to terms with such unimaginable loss.

"We have lost a man who was failed in life by his country and his peers when he needed them most - as he looked for help in the unjust US demand that he be extradited - and he has then suffered the most unfair and brutal of fates."

Mr Yelland said he had spoken to Mr Lynch just before he set sail on the yacht.

He also described him as a "dreamer of dreams not just for himself but for all those that knew him, worked with him or invested with him".

The entrepreneur had "exciting plans to contribute much more to the country he loved," he added.

Lord Browne, former chief executive of BP and now chairman of BeyondNetZero, said Mr Lynch was "the person who catalysed a breed of deep tech entrepreneurs in the UK".

"His ideas and his personal vision were a powerful contribution to science and technology in both Britain and globally. We have lost a human being of great ability," he wrote.

'Privileged to have known him'

Sky's Ian King said he "feels very privileged to have known and spoken with Mike Lynch over many years".

He described him as a "visionary and original thinker with a passion for building businesses". "There are sadly too few like him in the UK," he added.

The Royal Academy of Engineering, where Mr Lynch was a former council member, donor, and mentor, said it is "deeply saddened to learn of the death of Mike Lynch".

Sending condolences to his family, they added: "Mike became a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2008 and we have fond memories of the active role he played in the past as a mentor, donor, and former council member. He was also one of the inaugural members on the enterprise committee."

A spokesperson for technology industry group TechUK said: "Mike Lynch was a hugely significant and pioneering figure in the UK technology sector.

"Our hearts go out to all of the families and friends who have been impacted by these tragic events," they said.

Mr Lynch's Autonomy software was based on Bayesian statistical inference - where his family's ill-fated yacht got its name.

The software's global success earned him a reputation as the "British Bill Gates" and enabled companies to trawl through huge swathes of data more efficiently.

His Cambridge thesis is thought to be one of the most-read pieces of research in the institution's library.

There was huge outcry from politicians and business leaders when Home Secretary Priti Patel approved a judge's extradition order for him to be sent to the US for trial in 2023.

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Italy launches manslaughter investigation into mysterious sinking of luxury yacht

Victims included british tech magnate mike lynch and his daughter, hannah.

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Prosecutors in Italy said Saturday they have opened an investigation into culpable shipwreck and multiple manslaughter after a superyacht capsized during a storm off the coast of Sicily early Monday, killing seven people on board. They included British tech magnate Mike Lynch and his daughter, and the ship's Canadian chef . 

Termini Imerese prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio confirmed the investigation has been launched, but said no suspect is currently identified. 

"We are only in the initial phase of the investigation. We can't exclude any sort of development at present," he told reporters at a news conference. 

Cartosio said his team will carefully consider each possible element of responsibility, including those of the ship's captain, the crew, individuals in charge of supervision, the ship-builder and others.

"For me, it is probable that offences were committed, that it could be a case of manslaughter, but we can only establish that if you give us the time to investigate," he said.

The main question investigators are focusing on is how the Bayesian — a boat deemed "unsinkable" by its manufacturer, Italian shipyard Perini Navi — sank while a nearby sailboat remained largely unscathed.

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Prosecutors said the event was "extremely rapid" and information they gained seemed to point to a "downburst," a localized, powerful wind that descends from a thunderstorm and spreads out rapidly upon hitting the ground.

Initially, civil protection officials said they believed the yacht, which featured a distinctive 75-metre aluminum mast, was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout. 

Investigators were also asked why the crew was almost entirely saved, except for the chef, while six passengers remained trapped in the hull. 

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Local officials confirmed that most of the bodies recovered were found in the same part of the ship — on the left side and closer to the surface — suggesting that passengers had sought safety in the cabins where the last air bubbles had formed.

Deputy prosecutor Raffaele Cammarano said it was likely that the passengers were asleep, adding that one main focus of the investigation will be to ascertain whether they were alerted by someone. 

Cammarano confirmed that one person was on watch in the cockpit. 

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• Body of British businessman Mike Lynch recovered from deadly Italian yacht sinking

Rescuers on Friday brought ashore the last of seven bodies from the Bayesian, a 56-metre British-flagged luxury yacht. The sailboat was carrying a crew of 10 people and 12 passengers.

The seventh victim was Hannah Lynch, 18, the daughter of Mike Lynch, whose body was recovered Thursday. He had been celebrating his recent acquittal on fraud charges with his family and the people who had defended him at trial in the United States. His wife, Angela Bacares, was among the 15 survivors.

Rescuers struggled for four days to find all the bodies, making slow headway through the interior of the wreck lying on the seabed 50 metres below the surface. 

The other five victims are Canadian  Recaldo Thomas, the yacht's chef; Christopher Morvillo, one of Lynch's U.S. lawyers, and his wife, Neda; and Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley's London-based investment banking subsidiary, and his wife, Judy.

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Search Resumes for British Mogul and 5 Others After Yacht Sinks Off Sicily

The body of the vessel’s cook was recovered while divers searched the hull of the Bayesian for passengers, including the tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch.

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By Elisabetta Povoledo

Deep-sea divers with Italy’s firefighter corps resumed their search on Tuesday for six missing passengers — including a British software mogul and his daughter — of a yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily the previous day.

Twenty-two people were on board the 180-foot British-flagged sailing yacht, the Bayesian, which was anchored near the port of Porticello, when it was hit by what witnesses described as a waterspout, a small tornado on water, during a sudden and violent storm.

Fifteen people who managed to get to a raft were rescued by the captain of a nearby sailing cruise ship. The body of the yacht’s cook, identified by news outlets as Recaldo Thomas, a Canadian Antiguan, was recovered on Monday. But several people are still unaccounted for, according to Salvatore Cocina, an official with Sicily’s civil protection agency.

Those still missing are Mike Lynch, a British technology entrepreneur; his daughter Hannah; Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International; his wife, Judy Bloomer; Christopher J. Morvillo, a lawyer at Clifford Chance; and his wife, Neda Morvillo.

Mr. Lynch was acquitted of fraud in a U.S. trial in June, ending a high-profile, decadelong legal battle against accusations that he had defrauded Hewlett-Packard when he sold his company, Autonomy, to Hewlett for $11 billion.

Mr. Lynch and the others went missing days after Mr. Lynch’s co-defendant at the fraud trial, Stephen Chamberlain, a former vice president of finance at Autonomy, was fatally struck by a car on Saturday while out for a run, his lawyer, Gary S. Lincenberg, said in a statement.

Prosecutors in the Italian city of Termini Imerese, east of where the yacht sank, are opening a formal investigation into the yacht’s sinking. Reached by telephone, the chief prosecutor declined to comment.

The search for the missing passengers began on Monday but was suspended late that night as crews found themselves limited to the bridge deck and items like furnishings “obstructing passage,” the firefighters’ corps wrote on social media .

When divers resumed the search on Tuesday, ships trawled the waters near the site, the corps said in a statement. The Italian Coast Guard also said in a statement that search operations were “continuing unabated,” with the deployment of helicopters. There was no evidence that gasoline was leaking from the yacht, the Coast Guard said.

The yacht was lying on its right side in about 165 feet of water, meaning that divers, working in pairs, could stay underwater for only about 12 minutes at a time, said Luca Cari, a spokesman for the firefighters’ corps.

Divers were seeking a safe point of access to the vessel’s cabins. “Obviously, everything fell and the space is very tight,” Mr. Cari said, adding that the divers were having to remove obstacles, like furnishings and electrical wiring, that were “completely blocking passages.”

The firefighters’ corps said in a statement that it was impossible to verify whether people were inside the hull.

Mr. Cari said that several divers had been part of the search-and-rescue operations when the Costa Concordia, a cruise liner, capsized off the Tuscan island of Giglio in 2012, killing 32 people. It is considered one of the worst maritime disasters in modern Italian history.

“It’s like the Costa Concordia, but much smaller,” Mr. Cari said in a telephone interview, comparing the search operations. “In the Costa Concordia, we came across many obstacles but we somehow were able to overcome them. Here, the obstacles block the passages and have to be removed.” He added, “This makes it more difficult.”

Crews were also trying to raise the yacht, which experts will examine to try to determine why it sank. Until then, experts can only hypothesize what happened.

Karsten Borner, the captain of a ship, the Sir Robert Baden Powell, which picked up the Bayesian’s 15 survivors, said in an interview that when the wind picked up around 4 a.m. Monday, the Bayesian was about 490 feet behind his vessel. Once the wind wound down, he said, he could not see the yacht anymore.

“My theory was that she was capsized first and then went down over the stern,” Mr. Borner said.

Dario Boote, a ship structures and naval architecture professor at the University of Genoa, said: “Now I imagine that a whole series of lawsuits will be triggered, obviously to ascertain whether there is any responsibility, as always happens very unpleasantly in these situations.” He said, however, that in this case, responsibility might be hard to determine. “Clearly, only once the wreck is raised will we know more,” he added.

Several fishermen told Italian news outlets that they had witnessed a waterspout. Peter Inness, a meteorologist at the University of Reading, said they were relatively common in the Mediterranean, though their occurrence and intensity are unpredictable.

“Until one actually forms, you can’t start telling people where it is,” Mr. Inness said, or “how to get out of the way.”

The inclement weather — with lightning intermittently streaking through the sky — made it hard to know exactly why the yacht sank. Col. Attilio Di Diodato, director of the Italian Air Force’s Center for Aerospace Meteorology and Climatology, said the agency had registered intense lightning activity and strong gusts of wind in the area at the time the boat sank.

The Bayesian had one of the tallest aluminum masts in the world, according to its builder, Perini Navi. “Having a tall aluminum mast would not make it the safest port to be in case of a storm,” said Andrea Ratti, associate professor of nautical design and architecture technology the Politecnico di Milano. The type of intensity unleashed by a violent lightning storm “could have created a significant shock wave,” he added.

He, too, cautioned that “a lot of questions will remain until we have other elements at our disposal.”

Modern yachts are built to withstand meteorological events of reasonable intensity, and all international naval registers suggest that new ships be designed for higher waves and more frequent and extreme weather events.

But “this seems a case of an unreasonable extreme event,” said Emilio Fortunato Campana, an expert in Naval Hydrodynamics at Italy’s National Research Council. “In that case, no ship is 100 percent safe,” he added. “I think the Titanic showed that nothing is unsinkable.”

Elisabetta Povoledo is a reporter based in Rome, covering Italy, the Vatican and the culture of the region. She has been a journalist for 35 years. More about Elisabetta Povoledo

Five bodies found inside superyacht that sank off Sicily

PORTICELLO, Sicily — Divers recovered four bodies Wednesday from inside a superyacht that sank in a sudden storm off Sicily , Salvatore Cocina, director of the island's Civil Protection Agency, confirmed to NBC News.

Cocina later confirmed to Sky News that a fifth body had been found and was being brought to shore. One passenger remains missing.

The identities of the bodies were not immediately released. Their recovery follows a dayslong search in the deep waters off Italy where British tech tycoon Mike Lynch  and several others were believed to be trapped in the hull. Fifteen of the 22 people aboard survived.

The rest had been missing since early Monday, when the Bayesian was caught in the storm anchored off the coast of Porticello, a village near the Sicilian capital city, Palermo.

The body of the ship’s cook, identified as Recaldo Thomas, a Canadian Antiguan national, was recovered Monday. 

On Wednesday, NBC News witnessed what appeared to be at least three body bags being lifted from fire department boats after they pulled into port at Porticello. It was unclear whose bodies they were. Some were later transferred to ambulances and driven away from the dock.

Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter, Hannah; Morgan Stanley International Chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife, Judy; and Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife, Neda, are also missing. 

The Bayesian is owned by a firm linked to Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, who was among the survivors rescued by a nearby vessel after they got into a lifeboat.

Built by the Italian shipbuilder Perini Navi in 2008, the U.K.-registered yacht could carry 12 guests and a crew of up to 10, according to online specialist boating sites. Its nearly 250-foot mast is the tallest aluminum sailing mast in the world, according to CharterWorld Luxury Yacht Charters.  

Regularly described in U.K. media as “Britain’s Bill Gates,” Lynch was  acquitted of fraud by a San Francisco jury this year, stemming from the sale of his software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion in 2011.

The Mediterranean sailing vacation was designed to be a celebration for Lynch, who brought Bloomer, who testified in his defense, and Morvillo, one of his U.S. lawyers, on the trip.

Lynch's co-defendant Stephen Chamberlain was not aboard the Bayesian, but in what appears to be a tragic coincidence, a  car struck and killed  him Saturday as he was jogging in a village about 68 miles north of London, local police said.

Claudio Lavanga and Claudia Rizzo reported from Porticello. Henry Austin reported from London.

Claudio Lavanga is Rome-based foreign correspondent for NBC News.

Claudia Rizzo is an Italy based journalist.

Henry Austin is a senior editor for NBC News Digital based in London.