Five survivors ‘were found INSIDE capsized Egypt yacht in room not filled with water’ as search for two Brits continues

FIVE survivors were reportedly recovered wrong the capsized Egyptian yacht successful a country not filled with water.

Two Brits stay unaccounted for aft the Sea Story diving vessel sank aboriginal successful the Red Sea connected Monday morning.

Rescue teams searching for survivors recovered five wrong a country not yet filled with h2o successful the overturned vas connected Tuesday morning, AFP reports an anonymous authorities authoritative arsenic saying.

There were 31 tourists connected committee the vessel and 13 unit members erstwhile it sunk.

Red Sea politician Amr Hanafi said connected Tuesday: "Rescue operations are ongoing today, supported by a subject chopper and a frigate successful summation to aggregate divers."

In a connection helium besides said immoderate passengers were wrong the cabins, "which is wherefore they couldn't get retired of the boat".

Military divers rescued 2 Belgians, 1 Swiss national, 1 Finnish tourer and 1 Egyptian, the politician said.

The fig of survivors is present 33, with 4 confirmed dormant and 7 inactive missing.

Two of those missing are the Brits with different 2 Polish tourists and 1 holidaymaker from Finland besides missing, according to some countries' overseas ministries.

The Sea Story yacht left Porto Ghalib Port for a multi-day diving travel disconnected the seashore of the vacation hotspot and travelled southbound towards Marsa Alam wherever it sank.

Survivors person revealed they heard trapped tourists screaming from wrong their cabins.

One of the rescued British tourists said it was transportation achromatic erstwhile the fatal question struck astatine astir 5:30am section time.

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

The 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 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."

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

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

A nonrecreational diver who was retired connected the h2o erstwhile the yacht was attacked by the question has revealed what helium saw.

They 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 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."

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

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