Chief Stewardess Sasha Murray, 29, was one of 15 survivors when the Bayesian dramatically sank on Monday taking seven lives, including that of owner Mike Lynch and his 18‐year-old daughter, Hannah. Ms Murray and her family have divulged no details of her lucky escape, during which she injured her leg. Locals in Sligo were at first unaware she had been in Italy working on the vessel, but those who know the Murray family were not surprised to learn of Sasha Murray’s presence on the Bayesian superyacht.
"We were all water babies," a family friend told the Irish Mail on Sunday this weekend. "It is no surprise to me that Sasha ended up on the water. It ran right through the whole family.
" A manslaughter investigation has been opened into the deaths of seven people in the sinking of a luxury yacht off the coast of Sicily, an Italian prosecutor has said https://t.co/JWoab5BRNa In fact, Ms Murray’s family on both sides are steeped in adventure sports and count scuba diving and water skiing champions in their ranks. As a result, Ms Murray and her brother Killian grew up surrounded by adventure-seeking figureheads who appear to have inspired similar interests in the next generation.
But this adrenaline-fuelled lifestyle has also spawned a double tragedy for the extended Murray family. On May 30, 1998, Ms Murray’s father Fionn was killed in an aircraft crash during an airborne treasure hunt. Her maternal grandfather, Holger Schiller, who was piloting the light aeroplane, also pe.