Diver rescued his own nephew from Egypt yacht as desperate search for remaining 7 people including two Brits continues

A DIVER rescued his ain nephew from the yacht which sank successful Egypt arsenic the hunt continues for 7 missing people.

Two British tourists stay missing aft a freak question struck the tourer vas connected Monday greeting causing it to capsize.

Khattab al-Faramawy said a team of divers helium was with dived 12m underwater to get wrong the Sea Story tourer vessel and find the cabins.

He told the BBC: "We were utilizing torch lights to effort to find our mode into the darkness, it was rather a analyzable mission."

Khattab's nephew was connected the vessel erstwhile it sank and helium did not cognize whether helium had survived arsenic helium began the search.

But Youssef, 23, had survived and was locked successful 1 of the cabins erstwhile helium was trying to assistance radical escape.

Khattab's brother, Hussam, said helium broke down successful tears erstwhile helium learnt his lad was alive.

He said: "I couldn’t archer his parent what happened to the boat, she would person died immediately. I lone told her aft I realised that helium survived.

"I could bash thing but commune to God to assistance my boy, and thankfully his uncle yet saved him."

Youssef is presently successful infirmary receiving attraction aft helium was trapped successful the vas for 24 hours.

Some 33 of the 44 radical connected committee person been recovered truthful acold with rescue efforts being led by the Egyptian Navy.

Four bodies person been recovered from the sunken wreckage.

One of the 5 survivors recovered by the rescue teams said it was "nice to back" aft his 36-hour ordeal.

Wrapped successful a blanket, the Belgian nationalist who was rescued smiled arsenic helium said: "it was precise bully to beryllium back, precise nice".

He added: "Yes, I truly admit it [the rescue efforts].

"The reception connected [the] vessel with a lukewarm shower, the meal aft and each the attraction they took due to the fact that we were shaking with [the] acold and they warmed america up."

Among the 7 missing are 2 Brits, different 2 Polish tourists and 1 holidaymaker from Finland.

Tragedy struck connected Monday erstwhile the Sea Story yacht near Porto Ghalib Port for a multi-day diving travel heading southbound towards Marsa Alam with 44 radical connected board.

At astir 5:30am section time, a unit subordinate sent retired a distress awesome from the vessel earlier it abruptly dropped disconnected the radar and mislaid each contact.

One of the rescued British tourists said it was transportation achromatic erstwhile the fatal question struck.

The doomed yacht took conscionable 5 minutes to descend aft witnesses described seeing an "abnormally large" question hitting the vessel earlier it capsized.

Survivors said they heard trapped tourists screaming from wrong their cabins.

One British tourer said: “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 wrong 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."

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

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