British tech tycoon Mike Lynch likely died of suffocation after his 'Bayesian' superyacht sank off Sicily: report

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Autonomy founder Mike Lynch was among the people who died on the "Bayesian" yacht after it went down.

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Hewlett Packard confirms it will continue to sue Mike Lynch's family for $4 billion after he died in a tragic yacht sinking

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Mike Lynch, a British-Irish technology entrepreneur, smiling next to a black car.
Mike Lynch, the late former chief executive of Autonomy Corp.

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Crew member on watch duty on Mike Lynch's yacht says he was 'walking on the walls' of the boat as he tried to save passengers

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Divers on a boat during the search and rescue operation for the Bayesian yacht missing.
Divers on a boat during the search and rescue operation for the "Bayesian" yacht.

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The captain of Mike Lynch's superyacht is being investigated by Italian prosecutors: report

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Divers with the body of Hannah Lynch, the last missing person, at the back of the boat off Sicily's coast,
Divers with the body of Hannah Lynch, the last missing person, at the back of the boat off Sicily's coast, on August 23, 2024.

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The New York lawyer who died in the Bayesian yacht sinking wrote a LinkedIn post months before the tragedy that ended with 'they all lived happily ever after'

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Rescue teams sailing near Palermo, searching for the last missing person from the sunken luxury yacht Bayesian.
Rescue teams sailing near Palermo, searching for the last missing person from the sunken luxury yacht Bayesian.

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Investigators say 5 bodies were found in the same cabin of Mike Lynch's superyacht as prosecutors begin looking into 'crime hypothesis'

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Body bags were brought ashore at the harbour in Porticello by rescue workers searching for the six tourists missing after the luxury yacht Bayesian.
Rescue workers at a harbor in Porticello.

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The maker of Mike Lynch's yacht says it took 16 minutes to sink and the crew should have had time to rescue passengers

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Italian emergency services are searching the area where Mike Lynch's superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily.

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Tributes for Hannah Lynch, 18, as last body is recovered from sunken superyacht

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Hannah Lynch smiling with her father Mike Lynch
Hannah Lynch with her father Mike Lynch. Both are believed to have died when a superyacht sank off Sicily.

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Mike Lynch just won a dramatic 12-year legal battle over his tech company. Weeks later, he and his top lawyer were dead.

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Autonomy founder Mike Lynch was among the people who were on The Bayesian yacht as it capsized. Rescuers found his body Thursday.

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Mike Lynch's yacht was state-of-the-art and shouldn't have sunk so easily, search-and-rescue expert says

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Three recovery and search boats are shown in the sea near the site of the superyacht disaster in Sicily.
The recovery operation continues after Mike Lynch was confirmed dead in the superyacht disaster near Sicily.

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