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IT Tycoon Mike Lynch, Daughter Hannah Found Dead (theregister.com) 67

Posted by BeauHD from the tragic-news dept.
In a tragic update to Monday's story, authorities have recovered the bodies of former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch and his teenage daughter Hannah. The Register reports: Italian divers are said to have found the billionaire father and his daughter, 18, inside one of the sunken vessel's cabins, according to The Telegraph. The capsized ship presently rests 49 meters below the surface, about half a mile from the coast. [...] Angela Bacares, Lynch's wife, was rescued at sea and is recovering.

Canadian Broadcasting Company News has reported that the body of Recaldo Thomas, a Canadian-born man who resided in Antigua and served as the ship's cook, has been recovered. Other missing individuals have been identified by The Independent as: Christopher Morvillo, a lawyer who had represented Lynch and wife Neda Morvillo; Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of investment bank Morgan Stanley International and wife Judy Bloomer. The Register has published an obituary for Mike Lynch.
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  • Coincidence? (Score:5, Informative)

    by schwit1 ( 797399 ) on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @05:10PM (#64725352)

    The co-defendant of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch has died after being hit by a car.

    Stephen Chamberlain, 52, was Mr Lynch's co-defendant in his US fraud trial in which both men were acquitted following the $11bn (£8.64bn) sale of the software giant Autonomy.

    Mr Chamberlain died after being struck by the vehicle while out running in Cambridgeshire on Saturday and his family has now paid tribute to him.

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward
      I'm sure the low-IQ voters will see some kind of sinister conspiracy here. However, sometimes coincidences are just that.
      • Comment removed based on user account deletion

      • As the philosopher Terry Pratchett said, a million to one chance occurs 9 times out of 10. But really it's not just logic from a fantasy world, probability says that it almost certainly will happen. If there are trillions of events every second, and a million to one chance is going to happen very often. "What are the odds?" is a saying for casinos, not life.

        The odds of two partners in a company dying in the same week is roughly the same odds of two complete strangers dying in the same week. Look at the

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Askmum ( 1038780 )
        I am convinced it was Trump who arranged the tornado.

    • Re:Coincidence? (Score:5, Insightful)

      by newcastlejon ( 1483695 ) on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @05:16PM (#64725362)
      Chamberlain? Maybe, maybe. But engineering a waterspout to sink a boat seems like a bit of a stretch.

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by kriston ( 7886 )

        Well, they did "accidentally" retract the keel which contributed to the capsizing.

        • 1) The keel might have been up close to shore as it reduces the draft of the boat. 2) Being anchored just off shore, things like ports and doors would have been open. That would contribute more to the boat sinking quickly more than anything else.,

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by ceoyoyo ( 59147 )

          It wasn't an accident. Previous crew said it's always retracted unless they're sailing.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by jythie ( 914043 )
        Yeah, but these are the same people that believe sinister forces have access to weather control machines and use them for their 'we want to control the peopleulation for no apparent reason!' plots.

    • Re:Coincidence? (Score:5, Funny)

      by Sique ( 173459 ) on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @05:18PM (#64725368) Homepage
      I wonder how they managed to
      1. Convince everyone else involved to get on a sailtrip
      2. Create a typhoon right where the boat is about to sail
      3. Get out a storm warning in all weather reports and requiring all boats staying in harbor
      4. And still convince the crew of the sailboat to take to the sea nevertheless

      They must be masters of conspiracy, right?

      • Statistics (Score:5, Funny)

        by Roger W Moore ( 538166 ) on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @05:25PM (#64725384) Journal
        Well the yacht was called Bayesian and you never know how far those damned frequentists will go.
      • those that control the weather control the world.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by shilly ( 142940 )

        I know it’s always wise to be skeptical, but they really didn’t need to do all those things:
        - His wife owned the yacht, hence the name, so it’s pretty obvious that Mike Lynch spent his summers on it. And he would be the only target, the rest are just collateral
        - This area has always been prone to summer storms, but those are now more frequent and intense due to you know what. The chance that the yacht would encounter storms at some point during this trip was very high
        - If this were a bonke

      • Five years from now we’ll find some old medical and dental record databases to be “corrupt”, with rumors of the previously-reported-to-be-dead billionaires seen on a remote island somewhere.

        Hey, if Hollywood can dream it, money will try and buy it.

      • They must be masters of conspiracy, right?

        Well, that's what they WANT you to think.

      • Could the crew have left the boat exposed to water intrusion? Was the sail fully secured?

        Did the crew let the passengers know about any storm warnings?

        The trip would have been known. The storm is opportunity.

        People don't beat the Feds in court (and 10 years is long case). Oh, and billions was lost.

        Notable Details:
        * 1 out of 10 staff perished.
        * 6 out of 12 passengers perished including:
        1. Defendant
        2. Banker who testified in his defense
        3. Defense attorney.
        4. Spouses

        Oh, the other defendant getting kille

        • Re:Coincidence? (Score:5, Interesting)

          by UnknowingFool ( 672806 ) on Thursday August 22, 2024 @08:15AM (#64726266)

          Could the crew have left the boat exposed to water intrusion?

          My understanding is the boat was anchored and as such ports and doors are normally open. If it was sailing, those things would have been secured. The storm also was sudden and the crew may not have had time to close everything. So the question is not the crew "exposed” the boat as much as was the crew following normal procedures for the situation.

          Was the sail fully secured?

          Not sure but no reports have called out the sails were out.

          1 out of 10 staff perished.
          * 6 out of 12 passengers perished including:

          Another way to interpret that is most of the people who knew the boat because they work on it escaped a sudden sinking whereas people who did not know the boat did not escape the boat. Also the professional crew would have practiced safety procedures like water evacuation as part of their yearly training. A guest on a private boat, probably not.

          • Supposedly it happened about 3:30 AM and was a hot night, so most of the people had their windows opened while sleeping. Who would expect to be woken up like this?
      • My understanding is the boat was anchored just off shore. So the crew did not "take it to sea". The boat sank quickly because water tight doors were not closed as it was anchored. It if was sailing, the doors would have been closed.

    • Re:Coincidence? (Score:4, Insightful)

      by pak9rabid ( 1011935 ) on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @05:31PM (#64725392)
      For a site that's supposedly for nerds, yall sure don't seem to have a very good understanding of Occam's Razor.

    • Could be suicide or absent-mindedness from losing his friend? Mike Lynch didn't die from murder, not unless whoever offed him can create tornados on demand .. but then why would someone with such sci-fi level of power care about an essential retired billionaire?

      • Could be suicide or absent-mindedness from losing his friend?

        I don't think you fully comprehend how large his boat and the crew on it was. There is no absent-mindedness on his part that could have caused the boat to capsize.

        • Re:Coincidence? (Score:5, Insightful)

          by kriston ( 7886 ) on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @08:14PM (#64725588) Homepage Journal

          It was reported that the crew accidentally retracted the keel.

          I didn't know that was a thing until now.

          • Re:Coincidence? (Score:5, Informative)

            by hackertourist ( 2202674 ) on Thursday August 22, 2024 @01:48AM (#64725832)

            Yep, that's somewhat common on sailboats, because it allows you to put the boat over a sandbank and have it settle on the bank (without falling over) when the tide goes out. And it gives access to shallower waters.
            Sailboats need a relatively large/deep keel: the keel is what allows you to sail in directions other than the wind.

          • They did not "accidentally" retract it, it is common practice to keep it retracted when not sailing, because the rocking motion of the boat would make it swing in its housing and the banging would disturb the guests. But if someone had kept watch, closing the portholes and lowering the keel would have saved the boat.

          • I do not know about "accidentally" instead of on purpose as the boat was near shore. I would think retracting it would be normal procedure in shallower waters. The keel being retracted would have raised the center of mass and contributed to capsizing though.

      • Maybe they were holding some kind of rememberance event for the guy who got run over and were too preoccupied with it to take the necessary precautions against the storm? His wife was rescued, if she survives maybe she can shed some light on what happened?

        • Remember this was a professionally crewed yacht. I would hope the crew would not be that preoccupied by what the guests were doing to do their jobs. I cannot find the exact time of the sinking other than "early morning”. The crew would probably been awake but not all the guests.
    • Great fodder for the low IQ woke mind virus infected qanon trump lackeys. Lol
    • how else can you get a water spout on demand. . . wait look what I found, I think you're right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

    • Re:Coincidence? (Score:4, Funny)

      by fuzzyfuzzyfungus ( 1223518 ) on Thursday August 22, 2024 @01:31AM (#64725818) Journal
      HP's black-ops team is expensive because it refuses to work unless supported by cyan, magenta, and yellow-ops; but when you know it will dry out and clog if left unused for more than a month or so there's really no reason not to use it if you've got it; right?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by gweihir ( 88907 )

      You think whatever shady forces you imagine can arrange for a massive storm?

    • I can understand the car incident, but how did they make a tornado? That technology may be worth much more than inkjet ink.

  • CBC is Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Score:4, Informative)

    by euxneks ( 516538 ) on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @06:31PM (#64725476)
    The last C in CBC is Corporation, not Company.
  • refuses to cancel party and gets dead along with others.

  • Sad of course but (Score:5, Informative)

    by Nondidjos ( 4359161 ) on Thursday August 22, 2024 @02:18AM (#64725878)
    this is a good opportunity to be reminded that next to billionaires, hundreds of migrants drown every year in the Mediterranean, most of them without any mention in the media and without being subject to such zealous attempts to save them.
    • 1) The boat was just off shore. Search and rescue being called is normal especially for a boat just off shore. 2) After the initial rescue attempts in the first few hours, the effort is now considered a recovery operation with less zealotry as anyone not rescued immediately is presumed dead.

  • Design? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Budenny ( 888916 ) on Thursday August 22, 2024 @02:59AM (#64725922)

    A sound design should have survived a knockdown, so maybe there were windows and hatches open to account for the sudden flooding. If so that is crew negligence, but its also bad design to make such a human error with such disastrous effects so easy..

    However, looking at the ship itself, you wonder why it was knocked down to start with. One explanation is that the keel was partially retracted - if it was, it may have been partially raised by the impact of sinking to the seabed. It is hard to see why in that situation the crew would have retracted it, and sensible design would anyway have been for it to be stable against knockdowns even with the keel up.

    Another factor might be the design. Its basically a dinghy racing rig scaled up. You have a huge bermuda main sail and a jib, hung from a hugely high stayed mast. The inevitable result is enormous heeling power from the rig, even when the sails are stowed. The power of the wind rises as the cube of windspeed, so even a bare mast that high can have tremendous heeling power in gusts of the force reported.

    There's a reason why the schooner rig was popular in the Age of Sail. Split up the sails into a number of smaller more manageable ones, keep the center of effort of the rig as low as possible, have relatively low masts. Even with that the casualty rate was extreme, as the statue of the Helmsman in Gloucester harbour records.

    I suspect the inquiry will focus on design in addition to open hatches and portholes.

  • I don't know what are the Telegraph sources, but the Italian news outlets say that Hannah is still missing, poor girl.
    https://www.ansa.it/sicilia/no... [www.ansa.it]

  • Seventy knot wind gusts do not capsize 'bare poles' yachts. To wit: anchor mate right next to it rode out the gusts, motored,maneuvered around saving survivors and sustained no-damage.

    Sailor for 45yrs, often in 70kt gusts, wind shear and Tooele twisters that famously occur on the Great Salt Lake out-of-nowhere. A boat needs contributing factors to sink. That’s why there so much reporting on the mystery. Obvious, after event inspection reported furniture sealed the fate of owner and guests in their cab

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by kalpol ( 714519 )
      Furniture blocking doors is on par with any sunken ship. Read any narrative of marine salvage (Edward Ellsberg's books are great for this esoteric topic, or Edward Raymer's book about Pearl Harbor) and divers have to contend with all the furnishings washed into their way. When a ship sinks, the power of the water is absolutely immense, and rips everything up as it rushes in. No big surprise that people were trapped in their rooms.

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