Rescue boat capsizes in Chao Praya - captain manages to escape

[webfact]

Picture: Daily News

 

Daily News reported that a second boat had capsized in the Chao Phraya River near the site of the first at Wat Phanan Chaoeng in Ayutthaya.

 

A couple - aged 64 and 51 - went down with a tug in the first incident and a search operation was underway to locate them trapped inside.

 

Another tug had delivered diving equipment and was going back when it too got caught in flood waters and overturned.

 

Captain Manop, 56, managed to get to the safety of the river bank. 

 

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[smedly]

after watching the video there must have been something got lost in translation 

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Another tug had delivered diving equipment and was going back when it too got caught in flood waters and overturned.

Amateur time.

[Dont confuse me]

I always thought the captain had to shout, "women and children first" and usher them into life boats and he would go down with the ship?

Sorry my mistake he's gone down on the woman first!

[Jen65]

" got caught in flood waters and overturned "  !!!! the mind boggles ???  Tugs, boats, ships are all supposed to float with positive stability under normal circumstances and have proven stability data !!    Seems like these tugs have non of the aforementioned and were probably constructed in some ones backyard !!   I don't see any Classification marks on these tugs/river boats thus no set standards .   Lack of standards, training and seamanship - what does one expect ?   

[brianthainess]

 ! Man The Pumps ! !   what pumps captain ?