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Search resumes for 6 from sunken luxury yacht off Sicily

Fifteen people survived, including a mother who reported holding her 1-year-old baby over the waves to save her

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Divers off Porticello at the site where the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian sank. PIC/AFP

Divers off Porticello at the site where the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian sank. PIC/AFP

Police divers resumed searching Tuesday for six people, including British tech magnate Mike Lynch, believed trapped some 50 meters (164 feet) underwater in the hull of a superyacht that sank in a storm off Sicily.

Divers in wetsuits and oxygen tanks returned to the site off Porticello, near Palermo, to tag-team in 12-minute underwater search shifts where the luxury sailboat went down. Fire rescue crews reported that divers only made it to the bridge during a first search, and were unable to access the below-deck cabins because they were blocked by furniture that had shifted during the violent storm that toppled the vessel early Monday.

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