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
In 2023, it was estimated that 3,105 migrants died while crossings the Mediterranean Sea. As of May 2024, 880 casualties were recorded. However, the accurate number of deaths recorded in the Mediterranean Sea cannot be ascertained. Between 2014 and 2018, for instance, about 12,000 people who drowned were never found.
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!
Could it be schadenfreude mixed with morbid curiosity people click on this kind of news.
Let’s not forget about the horrors inflicted on many of them who reach land in Europe. So many absurd and left for dead.
“Mike Lynch’s 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.”
“In November 2012, Hewlett-Packard announced a US$8.8 billion (£5.5 billion) writedown of assets following their purchase of Autonomy due to “serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations” which occurred before the acquisition and artificially inflated the value of Autonomy.”
And nothing of value was lost.
Some of the crew may have died, I’m not sure. A job’s a job, I won’t disparage them. Mike on the other hand…
One crewmember died, the cook.
RIP, cheffy
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Both him and the guy that helped him commit fraud end up dead. This was definitely a hit and not a water spout. (Maybe)
From wiki:
Lynch and Chamberlain went on trial in San Francisco on 18 March 2024. Lynch was charged with 16 counts of wire fraud, securities fraud and conspiracy, while Chamberlain faced 15 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy. Both pleaded not guilty.[35] The court heard evidence and arguments over the course of 11 weeks, and one count of securities fraud was dropped. The jury retired for deliberation on 4 June.[36] On 6 June, Lynch and Chamberlain were found not guilty of all charges.[37] Chamberlain died after being struck by a car while running in Stretham, Cambridgeshire, on 17 August.[38]
This was definitely a hit and not a water spout.
If that’s true then some evil supervillain or governmental three-letter-agency has a working severe weather machine. The yacht was visible on a nearby security camera, and it disappears as fierce rain & waves obscure it.
I was thinking small controlled explosives disguised as damage from the storm but your idea is way cooler tbh.
Agent 47: detaches a few pipe fittings and leaves a few seawater valves open
like taking candy from a baby
Or he chucked a briefcase that followed a target out to sea and its movement created the waterspout
This was definitely a hit
How could it be? In the case of Chamberlain, the driver of the car that struck him was a local woman who cooperated with police, not some anonymous person who ran him over and then disappeared. Lynch’s boat went down with 20 people on board in a storm. Doesn’t seem plausible that either death could have been an assassination.
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Misread tornado as torpedo and was intrigued.
