Double Heroism and a Miracle

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When the vessel capsized, some passengers were trapped in their cabins. The vessel's diving instructor, 23-year-old Youssef al-Faramawy attempted to help them as the vessel went over and got trapped too.

More than a whole day later, his uncle, Khattab al-Faramawy, with other divers searching inside the wreckage in darkness, found him and four other passengers trapped and cold, yet alive and breathing from an eight-inch-deep air pocket, in complete darkness, in a cabin. It was a miracle. They were recovered to the surface and taken to a hospital in Marsa Alam....

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