Revealed: The tragic final moments of the victims of the superyacht disaster – as divers reveal the heartbreaking scenes they found when trying to retrieve the bodies [Video]

14:01 EDT 24 Aug 2024, updated 07:48 EDT 25 Aug 2024

Passengers on the doomed Bayesian superyacht scrambled desperately for the last remaining air pockets as the vessel sank to the seabed, investigators believe.

But while five of the victims’ bodies were recovered from one cabin, the youngest, 18-year-old Hannah Lynch, was found alone in a bedroom two doors away, it emerged yesterday.

The horrific last moments aboard the sinking £30m ship were pieced together at a crowded 90-minute press conference yesterday (SAT) hosted by the prosecutors who have launched a manslaughter and shipwreck investigation without specifying suspects.

Emergency service personnel and divers also spoke in detail for the first time of the incredibly complex five-day long rescue mission 160ft below the sea of Porticello in Sicily, which turned all-too quickly to one of recovering the dead.

Divers from the specialist fire brigade cave rescue team gave a gripping account of the peculiar difficulties they faced more than 50m below the …