The owners of the yacht from which passengers narrowly managed to survive the capsize will be held accountable through legal action, according to the passengers.
They don't think the Carlton Queen, which sank while divers were on a dive in the Red Sea, was seaworthy.
The boat had recently undergone an expansion as part of renovations, and when it departed from Egypt, it was clearly listing to one side.
The owners, Carlton Fleet, did not reply to a request from the BBC.
When the Carlton Queen capsized on April 24, there were 26 passengers on board, among them were British, Belgian, Swiss, and German nationals.
When David Taylor and his son Christian realized they were trapped below deck, the father from Treswell, Nottinghamshire, feared they were going to perish.
"I began to lose my bearings. I was terrified that we would perish. There was no escape, he claimed.
He claimed that they and another passenger, Fernando Suarez Mella, from Spain, had attempted to open an escape hatch but failed.
"Fernando was trying to find a way to open this escape hatch desperately, but all we saw was a decorative wooden façade with no handles," he said.
The boat was on its side, making it impossible for them to climb some stairs.
Christian could only escape by climbing up his father, who then managed to escape by climbing up Fernando, who may have given his life because there was no one else left for him to climb up.
Fernando looked up at me and said, "You've got to go," and for David, this was the most difficult part of the escape.
"Go, you have to save your son, he said. I walked away from him after that. Additionally, I was unsure of his survival. ".
David claimed he made the decision to share what happened in order to spread awareness and forewarn others.
We ignored so many warning signs that something was wrong, he said.
"Some of our group did approach the captain with their worries, and they were given a lot of information, but don't worry.
It doesn't make sense why a newly renovated boat would capsize in calm waters, so the question is why. ".
The group of travelers included Sally Nolan as well. She is British, but she has been a resident of Altea, Spain, for 20 years.
I recall thinking it was like a scene from a disaster film, and I might not see my kids again, she recalled.
She had to hang on to a table leg after being thrown off a sofa when the boat began to rock.
She recalled, "I had a terrible sense of dread at this point and knew instinctively that the boat was going to capsize.
"The boat then turned completely on its side to a 90-degree angle, and I was left clinging to the table with all of my strength, hoping it would be strong enough to support me.
"My friend Terri, who was seated to my left, could not hold on. I lost sight of her as she fell into the water past me, going over furniture and railings. ".
With the aid of another boat, the VIP Shrouq, the passengers were saved.
Sally said, "Our friend Fernando still hasn't turned up after going missing for a while, and hearing his story still makes me so sad.
Fernando, still trapped and unable to ascend the stairs, waited until the water level inside the boat rose so he could float upward.
The saloon was flooded when he arrived there, so he had to dive under the water to escape.
The largest breath I've ever taken in my life was mine. I pumped air into my lungs because I wasn't sure how long I would have to stay underwater," he said.
Christian Hanson, a different passenger, fortunately had the foresight to break the glass saloon doors. The water pressure would have prevented Fernando from opening the doors if he had not done this ahead of the saloon flooding, and he would still be trapped.
To raise money for the legal action against Carlton Fleet, a passenger from Germany named Dominic Schmitt set up a GoFundMe page.
Schmitt stated that his goal was to "ensure that no one ever experiences what we have and what could have been easily prevented.".
Michèle Colenso, a resident of Dorset, worries about the deaths of additional people.
According to Michèle, "as a group we are acutely aware that a number of factors coincided so that we were all rescued, most significantly the fact the incident occurred in daylight and we were a single group with an unusually high degree of survival and rescue training.".
Due to a ban on the construction of new boats, diving boats in Egypt are frequently renovated to increase their size, which the author believes to be a larger problem.
"We would like to see notable improvements in how maritime practices are applied to diving services worldwide and particularly in Egypt," she said.
