Two Spanish divers are missing after their dive boat sank in rough seas near Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
Fourteen other people - both tourists and crew - have been rescued after the boat Coral Princess capsized and sank just off Naama Bay, Sharm El Sheikh, on Thursday. A search and rescue operation has so far failed to find the missing divers.
As a member of Shrewsbury aqua club we were in the red sea on a liveabourd and saw the CORAL PRINCESS the day before she sank,twice it tried to moor to a coral we were on and twice it was blown off in a light wind narrowly missing two other boats one being ours, the captain and crew appeared to be totally feckless handling a boat that had been altered beyond its original specification top heavy and totally underpowered in our opinion the boat and crew were not safe. The next day after we dived the thistlegorm we set off for bluff point and hit a force 6/7gale(our opinion) fortunately we had a captain and boat that could handle such conditions. One of our party made the comment that they would not like to be on the CORAL PRINCESS in such conditions ...
