The fifteen Bayesian survivors are all together at the Zagarella hotel protected by a communications company. The visit of the British ambassador and the background on responsibilities and vested interests.
It has become a veritable headquarters for investigators and rescuers at the Domina-Zagarella in Santa Flavia (Palermo), the facility housing the survivors of the shipwreck of the Bayesian sailing ship, which sank in a stretch of sea just in front of the resort shortly before dawn yesterday due to a violent whirlwind that scourged the entire coastal area. This morning, men from the Regional Civil Defence and the Red Cross brought clothing and basic necessities to the survivors, who are also being cared for by the hotel staff. From this resort, the Prefecture is coordinating the search operations at sea for the six missing people: British tycoon Mike Lynch, 59, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer, his wife Anne Elizabeth Judith Bloomer, Lynch’s lawyer Chris Morvillo, and his wife Nada.
Support for survivors
About fifty men, including investigators and rescuers, are stationed in the resort. There is also personnel sent by the Palermo Asp to support the survivors. The resort is off limits, access is only allowed to hotel guests.
The story of survivors Charlotte Golunsky and family
Charlotte Golunsky, her husband James Emslie, both aged 35, and their 1-year-old daughter Sofia, survivors of the Bayesian shipwreck in Porticello, were taken to the Hotel Domina Zagarella in Santa Flavia, where the other survivors of the tragedy had been taken yesterday. Until this morning, the little girl was hospitalised, together with her parents, at the Children’s Hospital in Palermo. In the late morning, the little girl was discharged and the family was transferred to a hotel.
Charlotte Golunsky said that at the time of the shipwreck, she was sleeping with her daughter when she suddenly found herself in the water, in the waves of the stormy sea. To prevent the child from drowning, she held her with her arms in the air until they could reach the boat’s life raft. Welcoming the family to the hotel were some British authorities who covered the head of the little girl and her mother with a jacket to prevent them being filmed by the journalists’ cameras outside the hotel.
