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The Sinbad disaster didn’t have to happen

28 March 2025

11:27 PM

28 March 2025

11:27 PM

For tourists aboard the Sindbad, the final moments of their planned jaunt below the waves will have been a hellish, adrenaline-fueled lunge for survival.

Six Russian tourists, including two children, died yesterday when the submarine abruptly capsized in seas one kilometre off the coast of the Egyptian city of Hurghada at around 10 a.

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