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 the county. They moved from Germany, buying and renovating Ardtarmon Castle, close to Raghly. The Schiller family run an estate agents.
Ms Murray has already experienced tragedy in her family. When she was a very young child, she lost her father Fionn Murray and grandfather Holger Schiller when their light aircraft crashed after taking off from Sligo Airport in Strandhill. Her father Fionn was well known in motor racing circles.
He was just 33 when he died in 1998. Welcoming the good news, local councillor Donal Gilroy said he knew Sasha Murray’s family and said it was “always good news when somebody emerges safely from such a major tragedy. “I know the family and her mother Jessica is Schiller, and the family are highly regarded in the area and operate a property business called Schiller and Schiller from Ard Tarmon Castle.
“Her father Fionn Murray was sadly killed in a plane crash along with her grandfather Holger Schiller in a plane crash some years ago. “It is great to see that Sasha will be returning to her family safely and I knew her grandfather when he came here in the late 1970s and early 1980s. “I also know her mother Jessica and her father helped developed Schiller auctioneers.
“The family still live there and Jessica and her mother live in Maugherow. “It is great that Sasha has come safely from the tragedy but our thoughts with the other families who have been bereaved around the world after the terrible incident. “But it is good that there isn’t darkness being brought to north Sligo from the tragedy? “They are a private family,” he said.
Meanwhile, the body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch has been recovered but his 18-year-old daughter Hannah remains missing. The other people who did not survive the tragedy were Judy and Jonathan Bloomer, a non-executive chair of Morgan Stanley International; and Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife, Neda Morvillo. The body of the onboard chef, Canadian-Antiguan national Recaldo Thomas, was found near the wreck hours after the disaster.
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