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An estimate of the Sea Story accident and the place vacationers have been rescued on the second day within the wreck. See the area of the accident on Google Earth here.
On November 25, a dive boat referred to as Sea Story with 44 souls capsized an estimated 18 nautical miles south of Marsa Alam, Egypt on the Red Sea. Some have been rescued inside half a day from rescue boats and the Navy. on November 25 Another 5 individuals have been rescued the next day, some 36 hours after capsizing. Rescue divers went down and pulled 5 residing individuals and 4 our bodies from the wreck. Seven persons are nonetheless lacking. In whole, 11 individuals misplaced their lives on this dive boat.
There are rumors that counsel that some individuals might have been trapped contained in the wreck for the subsequent few days after rescue on November 26 however the divers might have been too afraid to enter the wreck for the sharks circling the craft. Others linked to the rescue say that is nonsense. That the boat was searched from room to room on November 26. Here is a rescue story from one of the rescue team here (in Arabic).
Whatever the rumors, in a tragic flip of occasions a ship of rescue divers have been inside a “half-hour” boat experience and so they might have assisted within the operation, one diver wrote, after seeing the end result.
“At the time of the accident we have been half-hour from the See Story boat full {of professional} technical divers with expertise in salvaging from a sunken ship. One telephone name and every thing was totally different,” says Radik Simic in a popular Scuba diving Facebook group.
The households of these misplaced and people surviving nonetheless don’t have accountability and closure. “What about overseas embassies and ambassadors? They ought to be responding as a result of that’s what they’re paid to do. I don’t know what nations the divers have been from to help with this. Feeling extremely unhappy to listen to these obstacles impeding getting info, accountability and closure,” says one commenter on a latest article we posted to a Scuba diving group.
Could there have been a greater consequence if dive boats and rescue divers are linked to a worldwide alerts system? Can there be an app for that? How a few Whatsapp or Telegram chat group (worldwide and nation based mostly) in order that rescue divers the world over can get a name and rescue when in want? What diving group needs to begin such an initiative?
All the Sea Story articles, together with a story from a survivor can be found here.
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An alert went out {that a} boat was in misery 18 nautical miles from Marsa Alam, which might be a radius that went out any 18 miles out from Marsa Alam.
