A New York City lawyer and his wife, who were among the seven victims of the Bayesian superyacht sinking off the coast of Sicily last month, were confirmed to have died from drowning, according to autopsy results.
The causes of death for Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda were determined by Italian coroners, while autopsies on the bodies of Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley’s London-based investment banking subsidiary, and his wife Judy, were scheduled for Wednesday, as reported by The Associated Press.
The Bayesian, carrying 22 people—12 passengers and 10 crew—capsized and sank within minutes after being struck by a predawn storm on August 19. Civil protection officials believe the yacht was hit by a waterspout near the port of Porticello, where it was anchored.
Autopsies are still pending for British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, who had organized the yacht trip to celebrate a recent legal victory, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, and the yacht’s cook, Recaldo Thomas. Morvillo had been one of Lynch’s U.S. lawyers in a fraud case related to the 2011 sale of the search engine company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard in an $11 billion deal that later unraveled over allegations of financial misconduct. Lynch was acquitted in June.
Prosecutors are reportedly investigating the captain and two crew members for potential responsibility in the sinking. Fifteen people, including Lynch’s wife, were rescued from the 184-foot British-flagged luxury yacht.
The CEO of the manufacturing company that built the yacht has blamed the vessel’s demise on a series of “indescribable, unreasonable errors” by the crew.
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