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The Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily on August 19 last year

A world away from Italy’s crowded beach resorts, the island’s south-west offers remote golden sands plus villages, vineyards and great restaurants

A salvage operation has begun on the superyacht Bayesian which has lay sunk off the coast of Sicily for eight months.

After the first two seasons of The White Lotus (set respectively in Hawaii and Sicily), the buzz in the media and on social media typically focused on the selection of the next site for the award-winning show.

Rock deposits provide first land-based evidence of Earth’s largest flood, when water surged through strait of Gibraltar

Billionaire entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah were among seven people who died when the vessel sank off the coast of Sicily

Billionaire tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah were among seven people who died when the vessel sank off the coast of Sicily

The Mediterranean Sea, a largely dry and salty basin, was refilled in just a few years – or months, writes Daniel García-Castellanos

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car down a kilometre-high slope towards the empty Mediterranean Sea, excavating a skyscraper-deep trough on its way.