Brit holidaymakers 'cheat death' after tourist boat capsizes off coast of the Algarve
“I was on the phone to some of my colleagues back in England and then I looked behind me and there was lots of water coming into the boat.
“A lot of peoples’ lifejackets were failing and weren’t activating when people were going into the water.“It was about three minutes between the time water started coming into the boat and we started sinking and another five to ten minutes before boats started arriving and another five to ten minutes before people started actually getting rescued.
A spokesman for Portugal’s National Maritime Authority said: “An alert was received at 1:25 pm local time today, via the Lisbon Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Centre, saying that a tourist vessel with about 40 people on board, was taking on water and was at risk of sinking.
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