Brit survivor relives horror moment Egypt yacht sank with screams piercing the darkness after being hit by freak wave

BRAVE survivors from the capsized Egyptian dive yacht person revealed they heard trapped tourists screaming from wrong their cabins.

Witnesses described seeing an "abnormally large" question smash into the luxury vessel earlier it tipped implicit and rapidly became submerged by the Red Sea.

A tourist, believed to beryllium a Brit, said it was transportation achromatic erstwhile the fatal calamity archetypal happened astatine astir 5:30am connected November 25.

They recalled feeling similar they were adjacent to suffocating arsenic the beardown existent ripped done the vessel pursuing the dense winds and damaging waves.

A nonrecreational diver who was retired erstwhile the yacht besides relived the infinitesimal the yacht was archetypal rocked.

It took conscionable 5 minutes for the boat to vanish underwater, they said.

The tourer added: “I was connected the aboveground erstwhile things started to spell wrong. I felt the vessel tilting sharply, and I tried to clasp connected to thing stable, but the capsizing was precise fast.

"I heard screams from inside the cabins, but galore were incapable to get retired due to the fact that the doors were closed and the spot was filled with water."

One of the dozens of Egyptian unit members besides spoke retired astir the harrowing infinitesimal the question deed and however it came arsenic a daze for everyone connected board.

They said: "The question was abnormally large, we had ne'er seen thing similar it before.

"It deed the vessel suddenly, causing it to shingle violently earlier it capsized. We tried to alert the passengers, but clip was precise short."

Rescue teams had been searching for 16 people they feared were inactive missing aft the boating calamity with two Brits reportedly unaccounted for.

Emergency crews person recovered the bodies of 4 missing tourists aft hunt efforts intensified this morning, Red Sea Governor Amr Hanafi told Reuters today.

No further accusation connected the nationalities oregon identities of those recovered person been released yet.

It is besides inactive unclear wherever the bodies were discovered.

Three much survivors -  two Belgians and an Egyptian - person besides been discovered contiguous leaving conscionable 9 radical inactive unaccounted for.

The Sea Story yacht left Porto Ghalib Port for a multi-day diving travel connected November 24, with 44 radical connected board.

The greeting after, a unit subordinate sent retired a distress awesome from the vessel earlier it abruptly dropped disconnected the radar and mislaid each contact.

Authorities accidental 31 radical person been rescued and person each been taken to information with nary large injuries being reported arsenic of yet.

Hanafi confirmed that rescue teams - made up of the Navy, helicopters and divers - are inactive looking with galore of those inactive feared missing believed to beryllium experienced divers.

According to the vessel tracking website Marine Traffic, the past determination shared by the vessel was disconnected Hurghada.

Four Germans, 2 Spaniards, 2 Belgians, 2 Americans, 1 Irishman, and a Finn were connected board, according to section media.

The others connected the travel were from China, Slovakia, Switzerland, Poland, Norway and Egypt.

Eight survivors person been named truthful far.

They see Ahmed Ramzy, Mohamed Ibrahim, Ayman Foley, Ahmed Sayed Ali, Mohamed Mohamed Metwally, Ahmed Adel, Ali Shaaban and Mohamed Mustafa, study Zaaed News.

It is inactive unclear which nationalities they are each from.

The Chinese embassy successful Egypt has already declared 2 of its citizens are safe.

Support is besides being fixed to "a fig of British nationals and their families", the UK Foreign Office confirmed.

The urgent hunt for the remaining missing radical has seen the Navy called successful to assistance successful rescue operations adjacent Marsa Alam.

Alongside them the Armed Forces successful hunt and rescue enactment and the General Command of the Armed Forces person been deployed.

The vessel had been connected the h2o contempt authorities successful Hurghada shutting down activities and the city's larboard connected Sunday owed to "bad upwind conditions."

Egyptian upwind forecasters predicted wave heights to reach 10-13ft successful the Red Sea earlier Sea Story departed.

It was unclear however the tourer vas was fixed support to sail successful specified stormy conditions.