Four bodies were recovered on Tuesday from a tourist boat which capsized off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, and rescue teams were still searching for nine missing people, the Red Sea Governorate said in a statement.

Egyptian authorities say five people aboard a tourist boat that sank in the Red Sea and left four dead on Monday, Nov. 25, have now been rescued. In a translated statement on Wednesday, Nov. 27, the Egyptian Armed Forces said that nine people have been found from the Nov. 25 disaster.

Four bodies were recovered and several other passengers are still missing after a tourist boat capsized off of Egypt's Red Sea coast. The boat, the Sea Story, left for a multi-day diving trip carrying 44 people when it was struck by high waves and began to sink.

Rescuers on Tuesday recovered five survivors and four bodies from a dive boat that capsized off Egypt's eastern coast a day earlier, Red Sea governor Amr Hanafi said.Nationally, the tourism sector employs two million people and generates more than 10 percent of its GDP.

The Sea Story sank off the southeastern Egyptian town of Marsa Alam, near the Shaab Satayah area, popular for its coral reefs, the Red Sea Governorate said.

Egyptian authorities are searching for 17 people missing after a tourist boat sank off the country’s Red Sea coast.

Four bodies were recovered on Tuesday from a tourist boat which capsized off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, and rescue teams were still searching for seven missing people, the Red Sea Governorate said in a statement.