An Egyptian captain sank in the Indian Ocean... and a survivor reveals the details of the ship's disaster

“The ship has a malfunction and it has broken.” This sentence was the last thing that the disappeared Egyptian naval captain, Sameh Sayed Shaaban, sent to his relatives on July 15, and he is one of the Egyptian sailors who boarded the Chang He ship, which sank in the Indian Ocean, and then completely lost contact with His family and friends.

According to the “Cairo 24” website, the drowning of the Egyptian captain, Sameh Sayed Shaaban, was of interest to citizens during the past hours, and social media was buzzing with news about the disappearance of the Egyptian young man, aged about 23, named Sameh Sayed Shaaban Kamel, as he was one of the sailors present. In the boat, whose story begins with the boarding of a number of Egyptian and Syrian sailors, one of the merchant ships on March 1 from the port of Osaka, Japan, which carried about 11 sailors, including 6 Egyptians and 5 Syrians, and Japan accepted it, passing through South Korea, China, Sri Lanka. And the Maldives, and then I crossed the Indian Ocean and there I faced drowning.

The ship is a general cargo truck built in 1992, 30 years ago, sailing under the flag of Sierra Leone, has a carrying capacity of 4,000 dwt, its current draft is 6 metres, has a total length of LOA of 88.38 metres, and a width of 12.8 metres.

Earlier, Amr Ismail, the survivor of the shipwreck, confirmed that the captain of the boat at the time of the sinking was in possession of 3 rescue buoys. With him, only the captain survived in this buoy.

He added that the remaining survivors in the three buoys called for distress, and after 12 hours the Container boat came to them, taking them from the Indian Ocean to the State of Kenya, noting that a number of those who survived and arrived in Kenya so far are 8 Syrians and 2 Egyptians.

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