One tourist dead, 6 missing in Phuket boat accident

Source: Reuters

BANGKOK, March 10 (Reuters) - Rescuers in Thailand said they had recovered the body of a woman on Tuesday after a tourist diving boat capsized off the island of Phuket at the weekend. Six other people, most of them foreigners, remain missing.

The boat overturned in the sea around the Similan Islands on Sunday night, a police officer told Reuters, adding there were 23 survivors.

"A plane spotted the body this morning at the site of the accident. We are still looking for the rest," said Lieutenant Colonel Wallop Paung-paka of the police marine patrol, who added that the dead woman was a foreigner.

Japanese, Swiss, German and Austrian nationals were reported to be among the missing, along with one Thai cook from the boat.


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when hubby and I visited Phuket. Yikes. I hope everyone's okay

That's what I was thinking too. I hope they find the others alive.

but yes, I know that's what it looks like...
:-)

The US Coast Guard would have shut Mr. Bau down. I did not realize it until we were out in the Andaman Sea, but Mr. Bau's boat had no life preservers and no fire extinguishers!