"It took only a few seconds": survivors recall deadly Vietnam tourist boat capsizing

Hanging on the chair together with him were another two people, only one of whom survived.

"One of them was too tired and couldn't hold any longer. What a tragedy," he said.

His account matches that from the second person who survived by holding onto the chair.

"The waves were so strong. One of the other two was too tired and said goodbye to us," Vu Anh Tu, a 25-year-old member of the crew, told Reuters.