Overview

• Early on June 21, crews raised the hull from 49 meters and pumped out seawater to lighten the vessel for full recovery
• The €25 million salvage operation began May 3 and resulted in the death of a diver working on the complex subsea lift
• Salvage teams severed the yacht’s 72-meter mast during the lift and plan to recover it separately before departure
• A judicial perito carried out on-site structural tests on the partially surfaced hull to gather data ahead of transport
• Investigators will scour the wreck and open Lynch’s safe to assess whether sudden flooding, human error or design flaws caused the ‘unsinkable’ yacht to sink