Six people have died and another nine have been injured, four severity, after a tourist submarine with about 44 passengers of different nationalities on board sank this Thursday in front of a sports port of La, as reported by local media. The ship, from which 29 people have been rescued, was doing an excursion to observe the famous coral reefs of the area. According to the governor’s office of the region, cited by Reuters, all the deceased were foreigners, although they are not yet known what their nationalities were.
The Egyptian medium Al-Masry Al-Youm He has disseminated the first images that have transcended the wrecked ship, a yellow submarine of the Sindbad company, which has been operating in the area for years. According to the information from, the submarine descends to a depth of 22 meters to be able to contemplate the exotic corals and fish of the Red Sea. The reason for the sinking is still unknown.
Hurgada is one of the main tourist destinations in Egypt and its airport is the second busiest in the country and one of the busiest in the middle of the Middle East. The city mainly receives leisure tourism from Europe attracted to the Red Sea coast. Diving ships and submarines are one of the largest tourist attractions in the area, although the safety of the operating ships has been repeatedly questioned.
On November 25, another diving vessel was shipwrecked in the Red Sea in an accident that left 11 people dead, seven missing, and 35 survivors. On that occasion, the ship was making an excursion to another coral reef, Sataya, located near the city of Marsa Alam, a city to the south of Hurgada also in front of the Red Sea.
An exam between 2023 and 2024 by the team of Marine Professionals Maritime Survey International (MSI) warned that all diving and safaris vessels that they inspected in Egypt turned out to be deficient and not suitable for their purpose. According to the count then published by MSI, since 2006 there have been at least 46 accidents in the area, including 20 burning ships and 14 embarkation.
