Divers dies during operation

Work to increase A Superyacht who sank According to local news reports, a British Tech Mogul and six more were killed in Sicily last year.

The diver was part of a team that was working on the 185-foot yacht, which was hit by a storm before dawn in August last year while he came to Anker near Palermo from Palermo.

The yacht sank within minutes, after being beaten by a mini-tornado, the British Tech-Tycoon killed Mike LynchHis youthful daughter and five more – Morgan Stanley International Bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy, the US lawyer Chris Morvillo, his wife Neda Morvillo and the chef of the yacht recaldo Thomas reported the BBC. Fifteen people managed to escape a lifeboat, including a one -year -old child and Lynch's wife Angela Bacares.

The authorities suspended the work for rearing the ship after the public prosecutor's office, according to the Italian media, opened an investigation into the death of a 39-year-old diver on Friday.

According to first reports, the diver was part of a team that worked to cut and remove the 75-meter mast, a first step before the yacht itself was restored, which is around 50 meters below on the sea floor.

TMC Marine, the British company that worked to increase the superyacht, did not immediately answer an AFP request to obtain further information.

In a statement quoted in news reports on Friday, TMC Marine said that it is working with the probe and that “the circumstances of the accident are currently being examined by the authorities”.

The work to call up the yacht began last week, and Italy's coast guard said it would take up to 25 days.

In Ipswich in the east of England, investigations on the death of the four British victims of the yacht interruption are currently taking place.

In Italy, the prosecutors in Termini -IMerese have opened investigations against the captain and three more for suspected manslaughter and the crime of negligent shipwrecks.

Lynch, the 59-year-old founder of the software company Autonomy, had invited friends and family to the boat to celebrate his Longest acquittal In a huge US fraud.

Who was Mike Lynch?

Lynch, once celebrated as “Bill Gates Great Britain”, rose at the end of the nineties with the development of its software company Autonomy, which helped to find companies quickly in e -mail and other digital documents. In 2011, Lynch sold the business for $ 11 billion in Hewlett-Packard, giving a payday of $ 800 million and consolidating it as one of the richest people in the UK.

However, the acquisition was later referred to as one of the “notorious failed mergers and acquisitions” after HP discovered alleged bookkeeping questions, which led to Lynch's dismissal by HPS then CEO, MEG Whitman. HP claimed that the autonomy had used accounting of inadequacies to strengthen its underlying financial data before the acquisition, which Lynch steadily contested.

The case extended to a 12-year legal dispute that ended in June 2024 when a federal court jury in San Francisco did not accept any guilty judgments.

Lynch, who received his doctorate at the British University of Cambridge in Mathematical Computing, was initially a company called Cambridge Neurodynamics, based on the work of co -founders with pattern recognition. The company used the technology to correspond to fingerprints and car number sign, as in detail from an article from 1997 in the Guardian.

From there, Lynch in 1996 made autonomy, which was based on a statistical model called Bayesian Inference, which was named after a theorem that was developed by statisticer Thomas Bayes from the 18th century. (Lynch's luxury yacht was christened as “Bayesche”.)

The company has shown the growing need for companies to sort and find information within the huge data that was created by the increasing use of computers and digital documents.

The constant growth of autonomy in the first decade led Lynch in 2006 as one of the highest honors in the UK, the office of the excellent order of the British Empire.

Lynch said The Guardian in 1997 that people do not quite believe that a growing technology business from Great Britain could do

“I actually heard the comment, 'England, software? I thought you made Bone China,” he told the newspaper.

Aimee Picchi contributed to this report.