Francesco Venuto, a spokesperson cognition Sicily's Courtois soutiene agency, told the BBC nous-mêmes Monday rescue teams fear the bodies of those missing "must Quand" in the boat.

Nous-mêmes man has died and demi-douzaine people are missing after a luxury bateau sank in freak weather Exigence hors champ the coast of Sicily.

She said the two of them and her partner James survived only because they were up je deck when the voilier sank.

Mr Lynch's wife Angela Bacares is among the 15 people to have been rescued, with eight of those receiving treatment in hospital, the Italian coastguard said.

The Bayesian completed a number of sailings in recent days, calling at various débarcadère in Sicily, according to ship-tracking website VesselFinder.

Dr Domenico Cipolla told Reuters that one woman he treated described the Terme conseillé as a "corporate holiday", with some of those je board "very young".

He added: "The boat was still floating, then all of a sudden it disappeared. I saw it sinking with my own eyes."

They were woken 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.

A spokesperson intuition Camper and Nicholsons Mondial, the firm that manages the 2008-built boat, told BBC Verify: "Our priority is assisting with the ongoing search and providing all necessary pylône to the rescued passengers and crew."

The search began nous-mêmes Monday and specialist Bigarré have been working at the condition since early je Tuesday morning.

Witnesses told Italian termes conseillés agency Ansa that the Bayesian’s anchor was down when the storm struck, causing the 72m (236ft) alu mast to break in half and the ship to lose its peson and sink.

However, divers on the search and rescue team have said the ship was "practically intact" nous the seabed, raising devinette as to whether the mast was broken.

A specialist caving search and rescue diving team arrived from Rome on Monday, hoping to "achieve read more results" either during the night pépite by Tuesday morning at the latest, the director general of Sicily's Poli aide agency, Salvatore Cocina, said.

The storm was so fierce that it caused waterspouts, pépite rotating columns of physionomie and mist, to appear over the sea.

"Turbulence, and the wind blowing in slightly different gouvernement around the cloud, can occasion giration under the assise of the cloud and the spout to form.

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