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Chen Peijie (2nd L), China's consul-general in Sabah, checks her mobile phone at a jetty in Kota Kinabalu in the Malaysian Borneo state of Sabah on January 29, 2017, as she awaits developments after a tourist boat carrying 28 Chinese nationals was reported missing on January 28. The skipper and a crewman from a tourist boat that went missing off Malaysia were found alive on January 29 but an air and sea search was continuing for some 28 Chinese passengers. / AFP / STR / Malaysia OUT (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Chen Peijie (2nd L), China's consul-general in Sabah, checks her mobile phone at a jetty in Kota Kinabalu in the Malaysian Borneo state of Sabah on January 29, 2017, as she awaits developments after a tourist boat carrying 28 Chinese nationals was reported missing on January 28.  

The skipper and a crewman from a tourist boat that went missing off Malaysia were found alive on January 29 but an air and sea search was continuing for some 28 Chinese passengers. / AFP / STR / Malaysia OUT        (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)