Inspections of the yacht’s internal hull also took place on Wednesday morning. At the same time, a team of four British inspectors from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) arrived in Sicily on Wednesday at the site.


The depth of the shipwreck has proved challenging for the rescue effort.


Italian rescue services said the team of specialist divers had been hampered by the fact the Bayesian is lying on its side at the bottom of the seabed, with its access points choked with debris.


Speaking before the bodies were recovered, professional diver Andy Goddard said conditions would be “pretty dark” on the wreck with very limited ambient light at that depth.


“You’re in this space and you’ve got stuff floating all around you, like being in a washing machine. It’s really dangerous for the diver,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live.


Search resumes Thursday

Searches resumed Thursday for the last person missing after a superyacht carrying UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch sank off Sicily, with divers recovering a fifth body from the wreck.


Specialist divers working with an underwater robot on Wednesday pulled up four bodies from the wreck of the “Bayesian,” while another was pulled up on Thursday morning, according to AFP reporters.


AFP reports that fifteen people were rescued, including Lynch’s wife and a woman with a one-year-old baby.