{"id":7808,"date":"2024-08-23T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T16:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2024-08-23T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T16:14:10","slug":"heartbreaking-details-emerge-on-chef-who-tragically-died-in-sunken-superyacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=7808","title":{"rendered":"Heartbreaking details emerge on chef who tragically died in sunken superyacht"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chef Recaldo Thomas is being remembered by his loved ones<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A chef who was onboard the superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily is being remembered by his loved ones as a \u2018one-of-a-kind special human being.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this week on August 19, a 183ft vessel called the Bayesian\u00a0sank off the coast of Sicily\u00a0after a violent\u00a0storm\u00a0led to a tornado ripping through the ship. There were 22 people on board including 12 passengers and 10 crew members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, rescuers on the scene were able to retrieve 15 of the passengers and swiftly began operations to recover the six remaining missing people on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the week progressed, the Italian coast guard were\u00a0able to find five of those six passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the people onboard who was initially recovered the day of was Chef Recaldo Thomas. His family has since\u00a0confirmed\u00a0his passing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recaldo Thomas was a chef onboard. (Facebook)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to\u00a0The Independent, one of Thomas\u2019 friends who spoke to him \u2018nearly every day,\u2019 described him as a \u2018one-of-a-kind special human being.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe loved his life, his friends, and his job,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Canadian-Antiguan chef, Thomas was working toward fixing his late parents\u2019 house and a close friend of his revealed that he was almost at his goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to\u00a0the BBC, Gareth Williams \u2014 who had known Thomas for 30 years \u2014 said that the chef used to live in Antigua during the yachting off-season, and kept working in the field despite being tired to achieve his goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He was role model to people in Antigua. (Facebook)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe told me just the other day that he needed to work two more seasons to fix up his late parents\u2019 house,\u201d Williams said. \u201cHe loved yachting, but he was tired.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams went on to describe Thomas as someone with \u2018the deepest, most sultry voice in the world, and a smile that lit up the room.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, another friend, Eli Fuller, said he first met Thomas 25 years ago and that he was a role model to young people on the Caribbean island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPersonality was very important in his job. The world\u2019s richest people want to hang out with someone social. He was sought after,\u201d Fuller said. \u201cThe kids would see all these white people working on yachts. For them to see an Antiguan man traveling all over the world \u2014 it was important for our community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Authorities are still searching for the sixth remaining body. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Italian authorities have yet to formally confirm the identities of the new five bodies recovered from the shipwreck. However, it was previously reported that the six people missing were\u00a0Mike Lynch, a British tech tycoon, his daughter Hannah, Chairman of Morgan Stanley International Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy, and\u00a0lawyer Christopher Morvillo\u00a0and his wife Neda.<\/p>\n

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