By Goongnang Suksawat

Phuket – Two bodies of male foreigners were found floating in the sea near the Racha Island, South of Phuket.

 

The Royal Thai Navy told the Phuket Express that at 12:35 P.M. today (December 29th) they were notified from a tour boat captain that two bodies were found floating near the Rang Gai Beach, East of the Racha Noi Island off the Chalong area.

 

At 4:50 P.M. the Royal Thai Navy and rescue divers arrived at the scene to find two bodies tied with ropes connected together with a floating life jacket and a buoy.

 

Full story: https://thephuketexpress.com/2022/12/29/two-male-foreign-bodies-found-floating-near-racha-island-phuket/

 

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It took the authorities over four hours to respond to the report? Not good.

Drugs or money involved most likely.  Certainly not from a leaky boat ....

1 hour ago, London Lowf said:

It took the authorities over four hours to respond to the report? Not good.

You fail to understand the complexity of launching such a mission and the coordination that is required. Locate boat, locate crew, have meeting, go eat, resume meeting, cast off with great gusto, return to dock, add fuel, depart again, return again, send runner to find coordinates of target destination, disembark crew, go eat,  have nap, return to boat, depart again, return again, collect captain, depart again..... 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

two bodies tied with ropes connected together with a floating life jacket and a buoy.

rip. a tragic way of celebrating the new year.

Just now, Pique Dard said:

rip. a tragic way of celebrating the new year.

In what way are they celebrating?

3 hours ago, steven100 said:

Drugs or money involved most likely.  Certainly not from a leaky boat ....

that wraps it up then.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

two bodies tied with ropes connected together with a floating life jacket and a buoy.

Why would any contract killing, which this is seems to be, be secured with a life jacket and a buoy while the interests here are not to leave traces... 

4 hours ago, steven100 said:

Drugs or money involved most likely.  Certainly not from a leaky boat ....

Why 'Drugs' Steve could be alcohol and a leaky boat.

8 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Why would any contract killing, which this is seems to be, be secured with a life jacket and a buoy while the interests here are not to leave traces... 

To send  message to other people for some reason , which one can only speculate 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

two bodies tied with ropes connected together with a floating life jacket and a buoy.

Local fishermen tied them together so they wouldn't drift apart, Just read the full story.

8 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

To send  message to other people for some reason , which one can only speculate 

Are you Junior Soprano?

 

The only 'message' here is read the original message, the linked item states:

 

"local fishermen nearby said they tied those bodies together when they first saw them as they were afraid that those bodies would float away further and separate."

 

On 12/30/2022 at 8:23 AM, brianthainess said:

Local fishermen tied them together so they wouldn't drift apart, Just read the full story.

Read the full story? Where's the fun in that ?Much better to go off half-cocked with "The butler done it" theories as the members here are wont to do????

16 hours ago, gomangosteen said:

Are you Junior Soprano?

 

The only 'message' here is read the original message, the linked item states:

 

"local fishermen nearby said they tied those bodies together when they first saw them as they were afraid that those bodies would float away further and separate."

 

Are you Junior Soprano?????????

When you borrow money off the street, be sure you can pay it back.

3 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

When you borrow money off the street, be sure you can pay it back.

What?

4 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

What?

Borrow from loan sharks.

On 12/30/2022 at 4:50 AM, nigelforbes said:

You fail to understand the complexity of launching such a mission and the coordination that is required. Locate boat, locate crew, have meeting, go eat, resume meeting, cast off with great gusto, return to dock, add fuel, depart again, return again, send runner to find coordinates of target destination, disembark crew, go eat,  have nap, return to boat, depart again, return again, collect captain, depart again..... 

XP got it. ????

 

 

2 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Borrow from loan sharks.

Right, because it is usual for foreigners to borrow from Thai loan sharks, then when they fall behind the loan sharks kill them, put life jackets on, tow them out to a tourist island and dump them in the sea. That's the tell-tale modus operandi of the loan shark.  Got to love the super sleuths who hang out in this forum.

On 12/30/2022 at 3:22 AM, steven100 said:

Drugs or money involved most likely.  Certainly not from a leaky boat ....

Just read the fisherman used the life jacket, anyway, 2 bodies could be from anything. Silly to right away scream drugs or money. I guess that is how most cases end up closed too soon.

Edited December 31, 20223 yr by ChaiyaTH

On 12/30/2022 at 3:12 AM, London Lowf said:

It took the authorities over four hours to respond to the report? Not good.

No, that is not what was reported.  RTN responded when they got the call, then it took time to get to the bodies' location

On 12/30/2022 at 8:10 AM, ezzra said:

Why would any contract killing, which this is seems to be...

Why on earth does this "seem to be a contract killing"?   There was no suggestion of that, at all.

1 hour ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

When you borrow money off the street, be sure you can pay it back.

What's that got to do with this incident?

55 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

1 hour ago, josephbloggs said:

What?

Borrow from loan sharks.

Why the off-topic comment?

56 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

1 hour ago, josephbloggs said:

What?

Borrow from loan sharks.

Who did?

Death by snorkeling misadventure ????

On 12/30/2022 at 3:12 AM, London Lowf said:

It took the authorities over four hours to respond to the report? Not good.

It could well be due to the RTN being a little busy searching for bodies from their sunken ship. Also it would depend on where the available rescue craft and divers came from to get to those bodies.

https://thepattayanews.com/2022/12/30/update-two-more-bodies-possibly-foreigners-found-on-beach-at-racha-island-phuket/  Now two more ,male and female found on Racha beach. What's going on here

Terrible, RIP.

6 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

No, that is not what was reported.  RTN responded when they got the call, then it took time to get to the bodies' location

All good then!

 

(Far quicker response than the ambulance service where i live)

Edited December 31, 20223 yr by London Lowf