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Divers discover cameras on Mike Lynch’s doomed superyacht that may solve mystery behind sinking

Video surveillance cameras retrieved from the wreckage of tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s yacht may solve the mystery of why it sank in a storm off Sicily last month.

Divers from the Italian Navy retrieved video surveillance equipment, including computers and hard drives, that will be analyzed i🤡n specialized labs,

Lynch, his daughter Haꦿnnah, 18, and five other people died when the Bayesian went down in severe weather, believed to be a meteorological phenomenon called a downburst, which is similar to a s꧂mall tornado.

Six elite divers from the Italian Navy have retrieved video surveillance equipment from the downed Bayesian yacht that could explain why it sank. NY Post
Bayesian captain and New Zealand citizen James Cutfield is under investigation for shipwreck and manslaughter in Sicily yacht disaster. ZUMAPRESS.com
Prosecutors investigating the Aug. 19 sinking of the Bayesian yacht off Sicily hope that surveillance cameras recovered by elite divers will explain why the vessel sank so fast and why. Vigili del Fuoco/AFP via Getty Images

Prosecutors investigating the sinking deployed six elite divers from a special forces uniꦓt called who made repeated dives down to the sunken yacht with the help of a hyperbaric chamber.

Recaldo Thomas, the ship’s Antiguan-Canadian chef, Jonathan Bloomer, the Morgan Stanley International bank chairman, his wife Judy, and Chris Morvil🎀lo, a Cli🔜fford Chance lawyer, and his wife Neda, were the other victims of the Aug. 19 tragedy.

Fifteen people, including Angela Bacares, Lynch’s wife, survived when they were rescued by a nearby yacht.

James Cutfield, 51, the New Zealand captain of the Bayesian, has not been charged with any crimes but is under investigation for multiple counts of manslaughter and causing a deadly shipwreck, along with two British crew members: Tim Parker🔯 Eaton, 56, 💧and Matthew Griffiths, 22.

Rescue teams deployed immediately off the coast of Porticello, Sicily, last month when British tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s superyacht the Bayesian sank within 16 minutes in severe weather. AFP via Getty Images
The lifeless body of the sixth missing person, Hannah Lynch, is brought ashore by fire brigade divers, in Porticello. IGOR PETYX/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
This surveillance camera footage shows the final moments of the sinking of the Bayesian Boat. FOTOGRAMMA/Shutterstock

Under the Italian 🅠legal s🌞ystem, being placed under investigation does not imply guilt and does not necessarily mean that charges will be brought.

Officials plan to raise the Bayesian and bring it to land in order to fully investigate how it we🍰nt dowꦰn in just 16 minutes after being hit by the storm.

It is curr🐼ently lying at a depth of 165 feet, about half a mile off the coast of Porticello.