Divers from Sicily search for the last person missing since the discovery of Mike Lynch's body

The body of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch has been recovered from his sunken yacht off Sicily.

At the same time, the search for the last of the six missing continues.

Specialist divers are still searching for the missing woman, a coastguard official told AFP.

A source close to the investigation previously indicated that Lynch's 18-year-old daughter Hannah has not yet been located.

They recovered four bodies from the sunken Bayes on August 21, and another was washed ashore at Porticello, in the north of the Italian island near Palermo, this morning.

The latest grim discovery brings the death toll to six after the body of a man believed to have been the yacht's cook was found shortly after the vessel sank in a pre-dawn storm on August 19.

The 56-meter sailing yacht, flying the British flag, was anchored about 700 meters from Porticello, near Palermo in the north of the Italian island, when it was hit by a water feature - a kind of mini-tornado.

It sinks within minutes.

Fifteen people were rescued, including Lynch's wife, but the businessman and his daughter were among six people reported missing.

The passengers were guests of Lynch, 59 - a well-known technology entrepreneur and investor sometimes referred to as Britain's answer to Bill Gates - who was celebrating his recent acquittal in a major US fraud case.

Lynch's lawyer Christopher Morvillo and his wife, Neda, and Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, and his wife, Judy, are also among the missing.

Many questions remain about the reasons for the sinking of the yacht.

Today, the head of the company that built the vessel said the tragedy could have been avoided.

"Everything that was done revealed a very long collection of errors," said Giovanni Costantino, head of Italy's Sea Group, which includes Perini Navi, the company that built the Bayesian.

He told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that bad weather had been forecast and all passengers had to be gathered at a pre-arranged assembly point, with all doors and hatches closed.

Footage from the ship's security camera from shore shows its mast lights going out, which Costantino says indicates a short circuit.

“Perini's ship withstood Hurricane Katrina, a Category 5 (hurricane). Do you think it can't withstand a tornado from here?" he told the newspaper. | BGNES