It was not widely known in Sligo that Ms Murray had been working on the yacht, and her escape from drowning has been warmly welcomed Mike Lynch among dead in yacht disaster as his daughter ‘remains missing’ A Sligo woman has survived the tragedy of a luxury yacht which sank off the coast of Italy, resulting the deaths of six people with a seventh still missing. Sasha Murray (29) escaped the sinking of the Bayesian, owned by entrepreneur Mike Lynch, which went down off the coast of Sicily on Monday. The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre-long (184-ft) superyacht carrying 22 passengers and crew, was anchored off the port of Porticello, near Palermo, when it disappeared beneath the waves in a matter of minutes after a fierce storm struck off the Italian island on Monday.
Twenty-two people were on board, 12 passengers and a crew of ten, with fifteen rescued. The yacht sank in as little as a minute. It was not widely known in Sligo that Ms Murray had been working on the yacht, and her escape from drowning has been warmly welcomed.
Ms Murray was one of 15 people who were rescued when the luxury yacht sank on Monday in what has been described as a freak weather event. She is understood to be staying with other survivors at a resort in Santa Flavia, where she recovers from the ordeal. Reports state that the Sligo woman has sustained an injury to her right leg.
Ms Murray’s grandparents Holger and Erika Schiller came to Co Sligo on holidays in the 1970s, and fell in love with t.