In February 2024, the liveaboard MY Sea Legend caught fire while operating in the Red Sea. A German woman went missing during the incident and was presumed dead. The vessel subsequently sank.
Nine months later, the same operator lost another vessel, MV Sea Story, in a disaster that killed eleven people. We document these incidents together not to draw legal conclusions, but because the public record is what it is, and divers have a right to see it in full.
What happened
Sea Legend was a motor yacht operating on a Red Sea liveaboard route. In February 2024, a fire broke out on board. The fire spread sufficiently to cause the vessel to be abandoned. A German national went missing in the chaos of evacuation and was never found, she is recorded as presumed dead.
The vessel sank. The remaining passengers and crew were rescued. A preliminary investigation was opened. Its findings were not made widely available to the international diving public.
The operator record
The Atlas documents incidents against operators as a matter of public record. This is not a legal finding. We draw no conclusions about cause, responsibility, or negligence. What we document is factual: the vessels involved, the outcomes, and the operator named in each case.
Based on publicly available information, Dive Pro Liveaboard has been associated with serious incidents on multiple occasions. The Atlas does not list them among its recommended operators. We recommend that divers review the full incident record, available in this Log, before making a booking decision.
“The same operator. Two vessels lost. Two fatal incidents. Nine months apart. These are facts. What they mean is for every diver to decide.”
– Red Sea Log EditorialThe missing woman and the accountability gap
A person died on Sea Legend. She went missing during an evacuation at sea and was never found. The investigation that followed was not made available to the international public, to her family's satisfaction, or to the diving community that books the same routes every year.
This is the accountability gap that the Red Sea Atlas was built to address. When investigations produce nothing public, when operators continue trading without any visible consequence, and when the next group of divers has no access to the record of what happened before them, the system fails. Sea Legend was February 2024. Sea Story was November 2024. The gap between them was nine months.
Fire at sea, the Red Sea context
Sea Legend was not the only liveaboard fire in this period. MV Hurricane (June 2023) killed three British nationals in a fire that spread rapidly through the vessel. Emperor Seven Seas was destroyed by fire at Port Ghalib in March 2025. Fire safety systems, detection, suppression, crew training and emergency lighting, are part of the certification requirements every licensed liveaboard must meet before operating.
Fire is not an unforeseeable event on a marine vessel. All these vessels held valid operational certificates. What the Sea Legend incident, and the fires that preceded and followed it, demonstrates is that the gap between certification and performance under real emergency conditions is one that individual operators are responsible for closing.
The Atlas does not list Dive Pro Liveaboard among its recommended operators. This is based solely on the public incident record documented in this Log, not a legal or regulatory determination. We recommend that all divers planning a Red Sea liveaboard review operator incident records before booking. The MAIB Safety Bulletin of February 2025 provides the same advice.
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