Italian rescuers brought ashore the body of the final missing person who was on a superyacht that sunk off the coast of Sicily.
The woman’s body was detected on Friday, the Coast Guard said. She has not been officially identified, but Hannah Lynch, the 18-year-old daughter of British tech magnate Mike Lynch, is reportedly unaccounted for. The Lynch family was aboard The Bayesian, a 56-meter (184-foot) British-flagged yacht, when went down in a storm early Monday.
Civil protection officials said they believe the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout, and sank quickly.
Amid all this attention to this one accident involving wealthy people, let’s not forget the thousands of poor people who drown in the Mediterranean each year:
Number of recorded deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea from 2014 to 2024
Somehow we don’t hear much about them, but rich people dying at sea provokes days or weeks of media coverage.
Honestly I care less that a billionaire died. I do feel terrible about their daughter.
More, less, or the same as the immigrants?
It’s unlikely the last immigrants body being found is international news.
I’ll tell you my answer. Less. Far, far less. The immigrants weren’t in a pleasure cruise. Theirs was a journey with purpose.
Also, fuck billionaires and their adult children who maintain contact with their billionaire parents. She made an adult decision to get on that boat. Fulton by association.
I feel more for the employees but still less than the immigrants.
I completely read your comment wrong! I’m sorry!
For posterity, here’s what I wrote previously ----‐----- What the hell is wrong with you?
A lot of horrible people don’t care when immigrants die, but nobody is proud enough to say it with their whole chest
Fuck you
No worries. Been there. Didn’t even see this before you corrected it.
I think you misread them. They seem to be saying they care much less about billionaires than about immigrants.
You are correct! I’m very sorry!
Let’s not forget about the horrors inflicted on many of them who reach land in Europe. So many absurd and left for dead.
Could it be schadenfreude mixed with morbid curiosity people click on this kind of news.