Watch moment Egypt yacht survivor is RESCUED from air pocket on sunken ship after 36hrs…& says ‘It’s nice to be back’

THIS is the infinitesimal 1 of the capsized Egyptian yacht survivors is rescued from an aerial pouch aft the tourer vessel sank successful the Red Sea.

The grateful antheral simply said "It's nice to beryllium back" aft his ordeal of 36 hours erstwhile the Sea Story diving boat capsized connected Monday.

He was one of the 5 survivors found by the rescue teams portion 7 radical - including 2 Brits- stay missing.

Officials said rescuers person been "intensifying efforts" to find them.

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

Authorities said subject divers rescued 2 Belgians, 1 Swiss national, 1 Finnish tourer and 1 Egyptian.

The fig of survivors is present 33, portion 4 bodies person been recovered from the sunken wreckage.

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 left 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.

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."

According to the vessel tracking website Marine Traffic, the past determination of 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 weather conditions."

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

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

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

Rescue operations are ongoing amid mounting fears astir the destiny of the remaining 7 missing.

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