Superyacht Sinks Latest: Daughter, 18, of British Tycoon Also Missing
At least one person has died and six are missing, including the tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter, after a superyacht carrying mostly Britons was sunk in a tornado off the coast of Sicily.
Mr Lynch’s wife and a one-year-old girl are among the 15 people who have been rescued.
Mike Lynch’s teenage daughter Hannah is among those missing from the yacht, according to Italian media.
Mr. Lynch remains unaccounted for, but his wife was rescued.
The six missing people are made up of four Britons and two Americans, according to La Repubblica.
The one body recovered is believed to be the boat’s cook, said Italian fire and rescue spokesperson Luca Cari.
Sky News is now able to identify the British woman who saved her one-year-old daughter from drowning.
Charlotte Golunski, 35, told Italian media she lost Sofia for “two seconds” amid the “fury” of the sea but was able to retrieve her.
She said she held her above the waves until the lifeboat was ready.
“Many people screamed. Luckily the lifeboat inflated and 11 of us were able to get on board,” she told ANSA.
The girl’s father James Emsley also survived, according to Salvo Cocina from Sicily’s civil protection agency.
Ms Golunski’s LinkedIn profile says she’s a partner at Mike Lynch’s firm, Invoke Capital, and has worked there since 2012.
Before that, she worked at Hewlett Packard for 11 months and studied history at University of Oxford.