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First responders are still looking for six people who remain unaccounted for one day after the superyacht Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily following a major storm.

Among those unaccounted for include four British passengers and two Americans, CNN, The Independent and Sky News reported.

Chairman of Morgan Stanley International Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy were aboard the 183-foot yacht when the vessel, carrying 22 people, began taking on water during the early morning hours of Monday, Aug. 19.

London-based insurance company Hiscox — of which the 70-year-old Bloomer is also chairman — issued a statement to PEOPLE on Aug. 20 regarding the tragedy.

“We are deeply shocked and saddened by this tragic event. Our thoughts are with all those affected, in particular our Chair, Jonathan Bloomer, and his wife Judy, who are among the missing, and with their family as they await further news from this terrible situation,” Chief Executive Aki Hussain said.

Mike Lynch, 59, and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah, are also missing following the incident. Hannah’s school in west London said in a statement, per The Guardian, that they were “all incredibly shocked by the news that Hannah and her father are among those missing in this tragic incident and our thoughts are with their family and everyone involved as we await further updates.”

A source close to the survivors tells PEOPLE that the group was “celebrating Lynch’s acquittal” following a lengthy legal saga that dated back to the 2011 sale of Autonomy, a business software company Lynch founded, to Hewlett Packard.

The man known as the “British Bill Gates” had been mired in legal issues since 2018, when he was indicted on several counts of securities fraud and conspiracy by federal prosecutors in California.

The trial didn’t begin until earlier this year, the BBC reported, because Lynch fought extradition to the United States for years following his indictment.

Lynch, who was facing 15 felony charges, was acquitted on all counts in June, the outlets reported.

New York City attorney Christopher Morvillo — who was on board the yacht with his wife Neda — was among those who worked on the case.

In a post on LinkedIn penned in June, the lawyer wrote that usually he didn’t share personal wins on social media.

“I have never posted on LinkedIn before. Not sure why,” Morvillo wrote. “The answer must lie somewhere between a fear of social media, an ignorance of the mysteries of this platform, and a lack of something meaningful to say. But, following the jury’s swift exoneration of our client, Mike Lynch, and his colleague, Steven Chamberlain, last week in San Francisco, I finally have something to say that I would like others to hear.”

Previous to his work at Clifford Chance, Morvillo was an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who worked on the criminal investigation arising out of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, according to his biography on the Clifford Chance website.

Neda is a New York City jewelry designer who has been making hand-crafted pieces for over 20 years, according to her company’s website.

Chris and Neda are the parents of two daughters, Sabrina and Sophia.

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Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, was one of 15 people saved out of a total of 22 who were originally aboard the Bayesian, the Italian coast guard and local sources said. Eight of the rescued were taken to local hospitals.