Hell blaze at sea

Three Brits missing in dive boat horror

- JEREMY ARMSTRONG

A DIVE cruise passenger prepares to leap from a blazing boat with smoke billowing around him, as fears grow for three missing Brits who were on board.

Other footage shows people desperately clambering out through the sides and in one clip huge flames can be seen engulfing the vessel.

The missing passengers remained unaccounted for last night, 12 hours after the alarm was raised as search teams continued to look for them. They had not been named.

They were among 29 passengers and crew, including 12 fellow UK citizens on the boat, called Hurricane, which caught fire in the Red Sea off Egypt.

Witness Ahmed Maher, a diving manager in Marsa Shagra village said: "We saw smoke from the boat, it was around six miles from the beach. A nearby boat rescued them and dropped them off. Hurricane had left Port Ghalib on June 6.