Unknown Sea Story lob sinks

[rmorgan]

This is on FB:
Melvina Miles
My father was on the Sea Story when it sunk. He stayed trapped 36 hours in his cabin before being rescued. LiveAboard didn’t even contact my father to know how he was doing or apologize. He only received a generic survey email asking to rate his trip… This company doesn’t care about it’s customers at all. When he was missing it was impossible to contact anyone there to get some news.

 

[Samdive]

As far as I know, the Sea Story was the only boat out there because of the storm.

 

[Dan]

The sinking occurred at 5.30 am, the sun came up later in the morning and those surrounding recreational LOB.s had a great viewing platform of the vessel on its side while eating morning breakfast.

How do you know all these? Were you there? Any news link to support your statement?

 

[ijdod]

@Samdive @Dan There's an article where it's mentioned, but that's a secondhand claim made a friend of the Brits rescued from inside the ship. It's the only mention I've seen so far, not sure how accurate this is. Could be based on what the survivors told him, could be assumptions, could be misquoted, who knows.

 

[nippurmagnum]

This is on FB:
Melvina Miles
My father was on the Sea Story when it sunk. He stayed trapped 36 hours in his cabin before being rescued. LiveAboard didn’t even contact my father to know how he was doing or apologize. He only received a generic survey email asking to rate his trip… This company doesn’t care about it’s customers at all. When he was missing it was impossible to contact anyone there to get some news.

Liveaboard.com is basically like Kayak or Expedia. They assume zero responsibility for the quality of the services advertised on their website.

Having said that, I emailed Liveaboard.com four days ago to say that they should consider dropping the Tillis and the Sea Pearl, the two remaining Dive Pro boats, from their list of boats. Aside from the reputational risk to Liveaboard.com of continuing to have their name associated with a company like Dive Pro Liveaboards, which had two deadly accidents in one year that killed a dozen people, I would hope that Liveaboard.com would just want to do the right thing.

I have not received a reply, and am not holding my breath.

 

[nippurmagnum]

The owner of Dive Pro and the Sea Story liveaboard posted a long prayer on his Facebook page, which includes the following excerpt, though it makes no reference to the other 8 people unaccounted for:

“May Allah have mercy on the deceased whose bodies were not found, namely Amr Ibrahim Saeed Zakzouk, Chef Mahmoud Muhammad Ali Muhammad, famous as Mahmoud Al-Sherbiny, and grant their families patience and solace…

As we call for prayers for the soul of the deceased Captain Alaa Hussein Mohammed Bahgat, may God have mercy on him and forgive him …”

 

[chaad]

The owner of Dive Pro and the Sea Story liveaboard posted a long prayer on his Facebook page, which includes the following excerpt, though it makes no reference to the other 8 people unaccounted for:

“May Allah have mercy on the deceased whose bodies were not found, namely Amr Ibrahim Saeed Zakzouk, Chef Mahmoud Muhammad Ali Muhammad, famous as Mahmoud Al-Sherbiny, and grant their families patience and solace…

As we call for prayers for the soul of the deceased Captain Alaa Hussein Mohammed Bahgat, may God have mercy on him and forgive him …”

I don't think we need to be critiquing the guy's prayers.

 

[scubadada]

Eleven people dead, you would think there would be follow up information.

 

[Adr1an]

@Samdive @Dan There's an article where it's mentioned, but that's a secondhand claim made a friend of the Brits rescued from inside the ship. It's the only mention I've seen so far, not sure how accurate this is. Could be based on what the survivors told him, could be assumptions, could be misquoted, who knows.

https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/535915.aspx

“We didn’t receive weather warnings for Monday,” Adel Rayan, an employee in the diving and safari tourism sector in Marsa Alam, told Ahram Online.

“Other diving trips also went out yesterday [on Monday]; there were many boats in that area alongside this [sunken boat]. If there were restrictions, they would not have been there; there were no restrictions. This [boat] was a safari boat; safari boats are designed for long voyages and equipped with the latest technology,” Rayan added.

The boat was on a diving trip that departed from Porto Ghalib in Marsa Alam on Sunday and was scheduled to return to Hurghada Marina on Friday, according to the governorate's Monday statement.


In TV remarks on Monday evening, the governor indicated that the boat was struck by “a strong wave at dawn following a sudden change in weather conditions,” causing it to capsize first on its right side and then on its left.


The Monday statement added that a tourist boat called Star Gate, which was in the vicinity of the incident, played a significant role in the rescue efforts."

 

[Dan]

@Samdive @Dan There's an article where it's mentioned, but that's a secondhand claim made a friend of the Brits rescued from inside the ship. It's the only mention I've seen so far, not sure how accurate this is. Could be based on what the survivors told him, could be assumptions, could be misquoted, who knows.

Thanks!

That news article did say this:

“This happened at 5:30am in the morning: that boat has sunk and it was lying on its side, with all the boats around it,” he told The Independent.“There’s absolutely no reason why no one would have gone in and tried to rescue [the others]. Those people actually waited 30 hours before they got rescued.“

I am flabbergasted!