Morgan Stanley CEO Jonathan Bloomer is among the missing

Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer and Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo are among six people missing after a luxury yacht capsized in a storm off Sicily on Monday, Sicily’s Ministry of Defense told the BBC.

UK technologist Mike Lynch, 59, and his daughter Hannah, 18, were also previously reported missing after the incident about 700m (2,300ft) off the coast of the Mediterranean island.

The 56m Bayesian was carrying 22 people including Brits, Americans and Canadians. 15 people were rescued, including a one-year-old British girl. Sicily’s Civil Protection also confirmed that the body of the ship’s cook was found.

The boat stopped at around 5:00 local time after a strong storm created water outflows, or rotating columns of air.

The search operation was due to start at 06:30 local time (05:30 BST) on Tuesday, Italian newspaper Reppublica reported.

A British-flagged boat with 10 crew and 12 passengers sank near the port of Porticello, east of the Sicilian capital Palermo, on Monday.

Eyewitnesses told Italian news agency Ansa that the Bayesian anchor was down during the storm, causing the mast to break and the ship to lose stability and sink.

Debris lies in the sea at a depth of 50m, and divers are preparing to search again for the missing.

Mike Lynch, one of the missing passengers, is known by some as “the British Bill Gates”.

He founded software company Autonomy, before selling it to US giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011 for $11bn (£8.6bn).

But the bitter legal battle that followed the high-profile acquisition dogged Mr Lynch for more than a decade. He was acquitted in the US in June of multiple fraud charges, for which he was facing twenty years in prison.

The sinking of the boat happened on the same day Mr Lynch’s co-accused in the fraud case, Stephen Chamberlain, was confirmed by his lawyer to have died after being hit by a car in Cambridgeshire on Saturday.

Bayesian’s registered owner is listed as Revtom Ltd. The superyacht can accommodate up to 12 guests in six suites.

The yacht’s name is understood to be based on Bayesian theory, which Mr Lynch’s PhD thesis was based on.

Mr Lynch’s wife Ms Bacares has been appointed as the sole legal owner of Revtom, which is registered in the Isle of Man.

Mr Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, was one of the 15 people rescued.

A British mother and her one-year-old daughter also survived.

The mother, whose name was Charlotte Golunski, later described how she held her child on the beach. to save him from drowning.

He told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his family survived because they were on board when the boat sank.

He said they were awakened by “thunder, lightning and waves that made our boat dance”, and it felt like “the end of the world” before they were thrown into the water.

“For two seconds, I lost my daughter in the sea and then I quickly went away amid the fury of the waves,” this newspaper quoted him as saying.

The survivors said that the trip was organized by Mr. Lynch and his colleagues.

After the initial results, a nearby Dutch flagged ship rescued the survivors from the waves, caring for them until emergency services arrived.

After the storm passed, Captain Karsten Borner said his crew noticed the boat behind them had disappeared.

“We saw a red light, so my first mate and I went to this position, and we found this life raft moving,” he told Reuters.

The ship was carrying 15 survivors, three of whom were “severely injured”, he said.

Eight of those rescued are being treated in hospital, the Italian security guard said.

The UK Foreign Office said it is supporting a number of British people and their families following the incident in Sicily. Britain’s Maritime Accident Investigation Branch is also sending a team of investigators to carry out a “preliminary investigation” into the sinking of the UK-registered vessel.