Crews are working relentlessly to find missing passengers of the doomed Bayesian yacht that capsized off the coast of Italy during a violent storm on Monday.
The boat left the Sicilian port of Milazzo on Aug. 14 and was last tracked east of Palermo on Sunday evening, according to vessel tracking app Vesselfinder.
The 160-foot luxury sailboat with 22 people aboard sank off the port of Porticello when the storm struck at sunrise Monday, the Italian coast guard said.
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Fifteen of the ship’s passengers and crew have survived, including a mother who was clutching her 1-year-old daughter above her head to keep her from drowning.
The search for those missing has been slow because the Bayesian now sits 50 meters below the surface, where divers can only stay for up to 12 minutes, fire rescue officials said in a statement Tuesday.
Follow the Post’s live coverage of the ongoing rescue mission.
