Horrifying CCTV shows the Bayesian superyacht being engulfed by the vicious storm that would sink it ‘in 60 seconds’.
Six people including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter, as well as a Morgan Stanley boss, are missing after the £30million vessel capsized during a freak weather event yesterday.
Footage taken from a CCTV camera on a villa just 200 yards from where the boat sank shows the ship anchored in the distance – its blinking lights just visible beyond the torrential rain.
The homeowner told local newspaper: ‘In just sixty seconds you can see the ship disappear. By chance, after the uproar of the news, I looked at the cameras. My children told me.
‘Of about twenty cameras installed in the house, only one was not disturbed by the wind and the rain. You can clearly see what is happening. There was nothing that could be done for the vessel. It disappeared in a very short time’.
There is a second video – which has not been published – showing the boat sinking, reports Giornale di Sicilia.
It comes as rescuers frantically searching for trapped survivors warned that the next 24 hours are ‘critical’ if there is to be any hope of finding anyone alive in an air pocket.
It comes as:
CCTV captured the last moments of the Bayesian superyacht before it sank beneath the waves during a ferocious storm early on Monday morning
The superyacht was docked off the coast of Porticello, near Palermo, when it was hit by an over-sea tornado, known as a waterspout
An emergency and rescue service boat navigates on the sea near the site where the Bayesian sank when disaster struck just before 5am on Monday
Luxury sailboat Bayesian was docked off the coast of Porticello when a waterspout struck
Italian Coast Guard Command teams and firefighters are carrying out search and rescue operations with helicopters and ships to find missing people after the yacht sank on Monday
Search teams say the boat is marooned 164ft below the surface on the seabed and is so deep that dive teams can only go down for 10 minutes at a time, with their efforts being hampered by furniture blocking the entrances.
One expert has claimed that the ship, which is almost completely intact despite not being ‘anchored in a safe place’ before it sank, could have trapped pockets of air inside that might allow survivors to stay alive after the ‘unprecedented’ disaster.
Nick Sloane, an engineer who led the salvage operation on the Costa Concordia, said ‘the next 24 hours are critical’ if any of the missing people are to be found alive, with a time limit of ‘two to three days’ before anyone who has found an air pocket runs out of oxygen.
There have been instances in the past of people surviving for days underwater in these circumstances, but rescue divers have warned that they are prepared to find bodies instead of living, breathing survivors.
One person is confirmed to have died after the £30million superyacht was struck by a terrifying waterspout at around 5am, with the ship’s captain emotionally claiming ‘we didn’t see it coming’ from his hospital bed.
The luxury sailboat was anchored just a few hundred metres off the coast of Porticello on calm seas when it was suddenly struck by a violent waterspout just before 5am on Monday.
Christopher Morvillo, left, works for Clifford Chance, a prestigious law firm. His wife Neda, right, runs her own high-end jewelry line using her maiden name Neda Nassiri
Neda Morvillo and her husband Christopher Morvillo are both missing in the wake of Monday’s superyacht sinking off the coast of Sicily
Italian Coast Guard Command teams and firefighters are carrying out search and rescue
It is believed the ship sank after its mast – one of tallest in the world at an enormous 246ft-high – snapped during the brutal incident and keeled over, taking the hull beyond the ‘down-flooding angle’, according to nautical experts.
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