Three bodies found in search for 16 missing people including 2 Brits after dive yacht sunk by a freak wave in Red Sea

THREE bodies person been recovered from the sunken Sea Story yacht, according to reports.

Rescue teams person been searching for 16 radical they fearfulness are inactive missing aft the boating calamity disconnected the Egyptian seashore with 2 Brits inactive reportedly unaccounted for.

Emergency crews person recovered 3 of the missing tourists arsenic they proceed to hunt for the remaining people, Arabic TV transmission Alhadath Brk reported.

The yacht near Porto Ghalib Port for a multi-day diving travel connected November 24, with 45 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.

So acold 28 radical person been rescued with hunt operations continuing successful the hopeless hunt for the remaining divers.

Governor of the Red Sea, Amr Hanafi, confirmed helium has spoken with witnesses of the tragic capsizing who person each said a "large wave" caused it to descend wrong minutes.

He continued: "The archetypal origin of the accident, according to the accounts of foreigners and the Egyptian crew, was a ample question from the oversea that deed the boat, causing it to capsize.

"The substance was abrupt and fast, arsenic it took astir 5 oregon 7 minutes, and immoderate of the passengers were wrong the cabins, which is the concealed down their inability to get retired of the boat."

Many of those inactive feared missing are believed to beryllium experienced divers, Hanafi added.

A nonrecreational diver who was retired connected the h2o erstwhile the yacht was attacked by the question has revealed the horrifying 5 infinitesimal disaster.

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 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."

Another tourist, believed to beryllium a Brit, added: “It was transportation achromatic and the h2o was each astir us.

“I tried to aquatics up but the existent was truthful beardown I felt similar I was suffocating.

"What saved maine was my beingness overgarment that kept maine connected the aboveground until rescue teams arrived.”

An Egyptian unit subordinate described the question arsenic "abnormally large".