One survivor of the doomed Bayesian, who is “very shaken” after escaping the superyacht’s sinking off the coast of Sicily, shared a disturbing revelation with her father.

Ayla Ronald, a senior associate at law firm Clifford Chance, was one of 22 aboard the British-flagged ship when a tornado struck the area where it was anchored around 5 a.m. Monday.

Ronald, 36, and her partner, Matthew Fletcher, were invited aboard the Bayesian to celebrate tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s acquittal in “one of Silicon Valley’s biggest-ever fraud cases” alongside his friends and family.

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A rare and unexpected “black swan” weather event may have led to the Bayesian superyacht’s speedy demise, maritime experts claim.

The spontaneous formation of a tornado-like waterspout would have given the 22 passengers and crew aboard the luxury vessel little to no time to react to the violent storm Monday before the ship capsized and sank, killing one and leaving six others missing.

Marine experts believe the large waterspout — a slim column of spinning air below a thunderstorm that occurs over water — was a “black swan event” or a weather phenomenon characterized by its extreme rarity and severe impact, similar to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, they told the Times UK.

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The twin brother of the Morgan Stanley chairman missing after the Bayesian superyacht sank off the coast of Italy said there may be air pockets in the sunken vessel keeping those yet to be found alive.

Morgan Stanley Bank International chair Jonathan Bloomer’s twin brother, Jeremy, said their family is anxiously awaiting news on his sibling’s condition after the banker and his wife, Judy, went missing when the superyacht capsized and sank during a violent storm Monday.

“They’re still going down to the wreck, they can’t get through at the moment because of the debris in the way,” Jeremy Bloomer told BBC.

“It’s a slow process, and it will take time. There might be air pockets but we don’t know,” he added.

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Two bodies have been found inside the wreckage of the Bayesian superyacht as divers search for the four others who have been missing since the luxury ship sunk off the coast of Italy on Monday, according to a report.

The two bodies were recovered on Wednesday, a source close to the matter told The Independent.

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New York City lawyer Christopher Morvillo described the "electric" moment jurors handed down a rare not-guilty verdict in the federal trial of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch on a legal podcast last week — just days before both men went missing after a luxury yacht capsized off the coast of Italy.

Lynch's wife Angela Baraces, 57, who escaped before the boat sank, let out a scream and ran over from the courtroom benches to hug her husband after learning that he had been cleared, Morvillo told fellow defense lawyer David Oscar Markus on the “For the Defense” podcast.

The whole defense side of the courtroom "erupted" when the jury foreman read out the "not guilty" verdict on conspiracy and wire fraud charges in San Francisco federal court on June 6, bringing a 12-year-long legal saga to a close.

“It was this electric moment. I’ve never seen anything like it in a courtroom before,” Morvillo recalled. “Grown people sobbing, hugging… people clapping, it was remarkable.”

Lynch's win is extremely unusual in federal criminal cases. Less than 1% of federal criminal cases ended in acquittal in 2022, according to the Pew Research Center.

Morvillo said the day trial ended, they had a big party "that lasted into the small hours of the morning."

"To have this vindication after all of these years was incredible," Morvillo said.

The celebrations continued with Lynch's Italy trip aboard the 160-foot luxury sailboat — which was carrying 10 crew members and 12 passengers when it sank off the coast of Porticello, Italy, when it was hit by a storm at sunrise Monday.

The wife of British billionaire Mike Lynch described her harrowing escape from their 184-foot superyacht before it capsized and sank during a squall of the coast of Sicily.

Angela Bacares made it to safety along with 15 other passengers after the violent tempest struck just after 4 a.m. Monday, consuming her sailing yacht Bayesian amidst a tower of tornado-waterspouts.

The 57-year-old described how she was woken early that morning after the boat “tilted” sharply, and after initially thinking nothing was wrong found herself showered in broken glass, according to Italy's La Republica.

She then fled from her cabin – slicing her feet on the broken glass scattered across the deck – and safely made it off the boat as it slipped beneath the waves within minutes.

Her tech mogul husband – known as “Britain’s Bill Gates” – did not make it off, nor did their 18-year-old daughter, Hannah.

Four others also remain missing, including Lynch’s attorney Christopher Morvillo and his wife Neda, and Morgan Stanley chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy, all of whom had gathered onboard to celebrate Lynch’s recent acquittal of multi-billion dollar fraud charges.

The boat now rests about 160-feet under water, and rescuers are struggling to locate the missing whose bodies are believed to be trapped within the cabins.

It remains unclear what caused the luxurious ship to founder. Some have speculated that its unusually tall 240-foot mast -- one of the tallest in the world -- may have helped the boat become blown over in the high winds.

The twin brother of missing Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer told the BBC he is "numb" over the news of the Bayesian superyacht sinking.

Jeremy Bloomer lamented his family is "coping the best we can," but has not received any updates from search and rescue crews. He described the "terrible" situation was “beyond your wildest imagination."

"It's a slow process and it will take time. So there might be air pockets, but we don't know," Bloomer said. "He was my older [brother] by half an hour. So it means a lot when you lose a twin brother. It's still wait and see, so fingers crossed."

“I'm just numb, just numb. That's it, you don't know what to think and you can't believe it's happened," he added.

Search and rescue teams confirmed that the body of Recaldo Thomas was recovered from the Bayesian superyacht.

Canadian-born Thomas, who is the only confirmed death so far, was the chef on the ship who had been living in Antigua.

Tributes for the chef had been shared on social media.

“Rest in Power big man. You always loved this pic of you. I don’t know what else to say except I love you, and I always will," one said.

British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, his high-flying Big Apple lawyer and a Morgan Stanley banking boss are among the six people still missing after the luxury superyacht they were vacationing on sank off Sicily’s coast.

Lynch, 59, and his friends were believed to have been celebrating on board the 160-foot Bayesian sailboat after the entrepreneur was acquitted just weeks ago of criminal fraud charges in a high-profile case in the US.

Among those on board the yacht — which sank after being struck by an intense storm early Monday — is his defense lawyer, Christopher Morvillo, and Jonathan Bloomer, a finance exec who served as a character witness during the trial.

As authorities scramble to locate the missing, here is what we know about the people who are believed to be in the wreckage of the yacht and feared dead.

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An entrepreneur who’s connected to missing British tech tycoon Mike Lynch theorized that the 160-foot superyacht Bayesian may have sunk because of its massive mast.

Scott Painter, who took over Lynch’s multi-billion dollar software company called Autonomy, founded in 1996, said Lynch’s yacht may have been more vulnerable during Monday morning’s tornado off the coast of Sicily because of its over 240-foot-tall mast.

The Bayesian, which capsized with 22 people on board had “an unusually large mast” for a single-masted ship, Painter told Daily Mail.

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Less than a month before Mike Lynch went missing in a yacht accident the billionaire tech tycoon ironically said he was getting another shot at life when he was released from 13 months of house arrest following his acquittal.

Lynch was acquitted of all 15 conspiracy and wire fraud charges he faced at a San Francisco trial in June before he was also released from house arrest.

"It's bizarre but now you have a second life. The question is, what do you want to do with it?" Lynch said in a July 27 interview with the Sunday Times of London.

Lynch and five others are missing after the Bayesian went down in a storm off the coast of Sicily on Monday.

Lynch had taken his criminal defense team and others on the super yacht to celebrate his legal victory.

British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and the five others still missing from the sunken Bayesian yacht could  be alive because of "air pockets" inside the hull, an expert claims.

Italian authorities have said that the chances of the passengers surviving the disaster was very small, but "never say never."

Nick Sloane, an engineer who worked on the Costa Concordia salvage operation a decade ago, told Sky News that search teams had “a very small window of time to try to find people stuck inside with hopefully an air pocket."

“You’ve got a maximum of two to three days to try to get someone out, so the next 24 hours are critical," he said.

“If the yacht is on its side, it might have more air pockets than if it’s upright. She’s got quite a large keel, and that will deflect and put her on her side, I’m sure."