Dive boat capsized in Egypt

Norseman · Nov 26, 2024

Supposedly a wave caused it to roll over, 16 missing including 1 crew.
A wooden boat according to one news outlet but doesn’t look like..
https://www.reuters.com/world/middl...at-sinks-off-egypts-red-sea-coast-2024-11-25/

kevin8tor · Nov 26, 2024

Apparently, very few to none of these Egyptian dive boats are built to any class standards, and they are very prevalent in the Red Sea and Med resort areas of Egypt.

Pascal · Nov 26, 2024

Second such dive boat to sink in a couple of years plus one that burned last year. Don’t need a naval architecture degree to see how top heavy these things are.

yes, build out of wood in the third world.

Norseman · Nov 26, 2024

Copied from The Independent

On Saturday, the Egyptian Meteorological Authority forecast high seas on the Red Sea, with 40mph winds and 12-foot waves, and advised against maritime activity for Sunday and Monday.

On Sunday Sea Story left Port Ghalib, just north of the resort of Marsa Alam, on a routine five-day voyage. On board: 13 crew and 31 divers.

Early on Monday morning the vessel capsized after being struck by a large wave, according to the accounts of survivors. The crew managed to send out a distress call, and 28 of the people on board were rescued.
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Norseman · Nov 27, 2024

Unconfirmed rumor: 3 of the pax on this boat survived 35 hours in an air pocket in the wreck and was rescued today…
Wow.

Norseman · Nov 27, 2024

A diver has revealed incredible details of the operation to rescue survivors in a tourist yacht that sank in the Red Sea, as the search for seven people who remain missing continued for its third day.

Khattab al-Faramawy, a professional licensed diver whose nephew was on board the Sea Story boat, recalled finding survivors “trapped inside the boat cabins” around 24 hours after the vessel had sunk.

The Sea Story sank in the early hours of Monday morning after sending a distress signal at 5:30am. On board the boat were 44 people, including 31 passengers – two of them British – and 13 crew members.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-survivors-trapped-cabins-diver-b2654741.html

chesapeake46 · Nov 29, 2024

Wow is right.
Talk about nerve racking.

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