Today, we look at the rescue operation following the sinking of a luxury yacht off the coast off Sicily. Six people are still missing, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, after the Bayesian sank on Monday. Why are rescue divers struggling to reach the yacht’s cabins? What freak weather conditions caused the ship to sink? Mark Lowen, BBC Rome correspondent, joins Adam from Sicily where he’s reporting on the rescue efforts. Katie Prescott, technology business editor at The Times, discusses Mike Lynch’s technology career. And, Matt Taylor explains the storm conditions in Sicily that led to the tragedy. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Miranda Slade and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham
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We've learned more details about the sinking of the superyacht off the coast of Sicily, which was owned by the british technology entrepreneur Mike lynch.
And we've also learned more about the search for survivors.
So we're going to focus on that in this episode of Newscast.
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It's Adam in the studio, and we are recording this episode of Newscast just after 06:00 on Tuesday.
So it reflects the situation as we know it at this point.
And as I said, we're going to focus on the details we've learned around the sinking of the superyacht, the Bayesian, which was owned by the british tech entrepreneur Mike lynch, who is still missing, along with his 18 year old daughter and several other members of the party who were on the boat with him.
Now, Mike lynch had already been in the headlines for decades, basically because of a massive series of legal battles over the company he formed, Autonomy, which was bought by the huge american tech company Hewlett Packard a few years ago.