Investigators: Five bodies found in the same cabin of Mike Lynch's superyacht

At a press conference on Saturday morning, Bentivoglio Fiandra of the local fire department said: “The yacht was tilting to the right and obviously the bodies were trying to get to the other side and seek shelter in their cabins.”

“We found five bodies in a cabin on the left and another in the third cabin on the left. They were in the upper part of the shipwreck,” he added, according to The Telegraph.

The public prosecutor's office said it had launched a manslaughter investigation following the ship's sinking.

Ambrogio Cartosio, the head of the Termini Imerese public prosecutor's office, said he was investigating a “criminal hypothesis” of culpable shipwreck and manslaughter.

The Bayesian, a 184-foot superyacht, sank off the coast of Porticello, Sicily on August 19.

Mike Lynch, the founder of Autonomy, and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah were among the seven people confirmed dead in the incident.

Lynch was on the yacht with friends and family, celebrating his recent acquittal in a fraud trial.

He won the twelve-year legal battle over his technology company in June.

Stephen Chamberlain, former vice president of finance at Autonomy and a defendant in the fraud trial, died in a separate incident just days before the Bayesian sank.

Jonathan Bloomer, CEO of Morgan Stanley International, and his wife Judy also died after the yacht sank.

A second couple, Christopher and Neda Morvillo, also died in the sinking. Christopher Morvillo was a partner at Clifford Chance and Lynch's attorney.

The yacht's cook, Recaldo Thomas, was the only crew member to die in the incident.