“The yacht tilted to the right and the body apparently went to the other side and tried to take refuge in a cabin,” Bentivoglio Fiandra of the local fire and rescue service said at a press conference on Saturday morning.
“We found five bodies in the left-hand cabin and one more body in a third cabin on the left-hand side. The bodies were on top of the wreck,” he added to The Telegraph.
Prosecutors said they had opened a manslaughter investigation following the sinking.
Termini Imerese prosecutor general Ambrogio Cartosio said they were investigating the “criminal hypotheses” of negligence and manslaughter in the boat accident.
The 184-foot superyacht, the Baysian, sank off the coast of Porticello, Sicily, on August 19th.
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah were among seven people confirmed to have died in the incident.
Lynch was on a yacht with friends and family celebrating his recent acquittal in a fraud trial.
He won a 12-year legal battle over his technology company in June.
Stephen Chamberlain, Autonomy’s former vice president of finance and a defendant in the fraud trial, died in an unrelated incident just days before the Bayesian sank.
Morgan Stanley International Chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy also died after the yacht sank.
A second couple, Christopher and Neda Morvillo, also died in the sinking. Christopher Morvillo was a partner at Clifford Chance and Lynch’s lawyer.
The only crew member killed in the accident was the yacht’s chef, Recardo Thomas.
