Doomed scuba yacht is Egyptian dive firm’s THIRD boat sinking in three years with 7 still missing & 4 dead

THE dive steadfast who utilized the doomed Egyptian yacht that has near 4 dormant person besides been progressive successful 2 different superior incidents successful the past 3 years.

Dive Pro Liveaboard are known arsenic a fashionable expedition radical successful the Red Sea and were progressive with the five-day travel that saw the Sea Story vessel capsize connected Monday morning.

As hunt teams proceed to hunt for the last missing 7 radical connected committee the vas a brace of erstwhile information breaches person emerged with links to the aforesaid company.

In April 2022, Dive Pro Liveaboard were the main operators for the Scuba Scene yacht which dramatically caught connected occurrence portion retired connected the Red Sea.

Nineteen guests, 3 dive guides and 14 unit members were each forced to evacuate the flaming boat.

The vas was seen dilatory sinking to the oversea level arsenic the tourist's belongings were everlastingly mislaid to the water.

Two years later, a 2nd occurrence broke retired connected committee a Dive Pro Liveaboard vessel.

In February of this twelvemonth a vessel known arsenic Sea Legend was near severely charred aft a blaze connected platform earlier it started to sink.

Thirty 1 radical travelling connected the luxury vas were made to evacuate successful the emergency.

The odor of fume is believed to person woken up the guests aft a occurrence started successful the room area, eyewitnesses said.

It soon dispersed done the vessel starring to the unit ordering each passengers disconnected wrong 10 minutes of the archetypal flames appearing.

A German guest, 50, was reported arsenic missing aft she didn't instrumentality to adust onshore with the chap tourists.

She was aboriginal confirmed arsenic dormant by officials, the Telegraph reports.

Several of the shaken guests aboriginal complained astir the information protocols successful place.

They claimed that fume and occurrence alarms weren't moving and that the vessel didn't person capable beingness jackets connected board.

An exigency flare was besides ne'er signalled contempt the wide information the guests felt they were in, they said.

Sea Legend had lone been bought successful by the institution to regenerate the mislaid Scuba Scene.

The Sun has contacted Dive Pro Liveaboard for comment.

This week has seen Dive Pro Liveaboard again successful the spotlight aft the Sea Story yacht capsized and sank successful conscionable 5 minutes.

At slightest 4 bodies person been recovered from the sunken wreckage truthful acold with seven radical inactive feared missing - including 2 Brits.

The Sea Story left Porto Ghalib Port for a multi-day diving travel connected November 24, 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.

A giant, freak question is said to person struck the vessel successful atrocious weather conditions and made it extremity to its size earlier capsizing.

Brave survivors revealed it took minutes for the vas to beryllium wholly submerged.

Authorities accidental 33 radical person been rescued truthful acold with them each being taken to information with nary large injuries being reported.

Fears are mounting astir the information of the remaining 7 radical with rescuers inactive moving tirelessly to find survivors.

A British idiosyncratic who escaped the terrifying mishap has revealed they heard trapped tourists screaming from wrong their cabins.

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

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 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.

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

As good arsenic divers from China, Slovakia, Switzerland, Poland, Norway and Egypt.

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

Ireland's overseas affairs curate Micheál Martin besides confirmed the Irish tourer is "OK".

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

Two Brits person been recovered harmless already but different 2 are inactive said to beryllium missing.