{"id":113999,"date":"2024-10-14T10:11:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T03:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113999"},"modified":"2024-10-14T10:11:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T03:11:44","slug":"tech-tycoon-among-six-missing-as-freak-storm-sinks-luxury-yacht-in-seconds-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113999","title":{"rendered":"Tech tycoon among six missing as freak storm sinks luxury yacht in seconds | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Osj9tv8aOqM?autoplay=1&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter are among six people missing after a luxury superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily in a freak storm.<\/p>\n<p>The 56m vessel was carrying 22 people including British, American and Canadian nationals. Fifteen people were rescued, including a one-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>The yacht, named Bayesian, capsized and sank at about 5am local time after a sudden storm generated a woterspout &#8211; a rotating column of air similar to a tornado on land.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lynch, known by some as &#8220;the British Bill Gates&#8221;, co-founded software company Autonomy, which was then bought by tech giant Hewlett-Packard for $11bn.   He was later charged with fraud over the deal but was acquitted by a jury just two months before the yacht disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Mark Lowen and Simon Jack.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Osj9tv8aOqM\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter are among six people missing after a luxury superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily in a freak storm. The 56m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=113999\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}