Thai-US navies continue search of HTMS Sukhothai wreck today

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The Thai and US navies are entering the fifth day of their joint operation to search for the remains of five crew members missing from sunken HTMS Sukhothai.

 

A search will be conducted in the main engine room, quartermaster clerk’s room and deck walkways today, according to the Royal Thai Navy’s Facebook page.

 

The corvette class vessel sank on the night of December 18, 2022, in heavy seas. Twenty-four crew were killed, five remain unaccounted for and the remainder of the complement were rescued.

 

Thirty-five Thai and 14 American naval divers are taking part in the 19-day salvage mission.The US has deployed the supply ship “Ocean Valor”, which is participating in the Cobra Gold multinational military exercise.

 

Top Photo : Royal Thai Navy’s Facebook page

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-02-26

 

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[VinnieK]

So basically they are inspecting it.

So much for all the 'salvage' talk that's been going on since it sunk.🤦‍♂️

 

 

[BE88]

""The corvette class vessel sank on the night of December 18, 2022, in heavy seas.""

 

The US corvette class sunk with 3 meter waves with no Houthis in sight, a mystery that the Americans want to understand 😁

Edited February 26 by BE88

[Korat Kiwi]

22 minutes ago, BE88 said:

""The corvette class vessel sank on the night of December 18, 2022, in heavy seas.""

 

The US corvette class sunk with 3 meter waves with no Houthis in sight, a mystery that the Americans want to understand 😁

You got me going there for a moment, I thought you wrote...

 

No Hooters in sight

[BE88]

30 minutes ago, Korat Kiwi said:

You got me going there for a moment, I thought you wrote...

 

No Hooters in sight

 

In Chumphong beach there are some with burqas and you pay before you see.....

[Korat Kiwi]

1 hour ago, BE88 said:

 

In Chumphong beach there are some with burqas and you pay before you see.....

Hooters with burqas... 

 

  Tempting, as long as mine is a cheese and bacon burqa

[Srikcir]

4 hours ago, BE88 said:

""The corvette class vessel sank on the night of December 18, 2022, in heavy seas.""

 

The US corvette class sunk with 3 meter waves with no Houthis in sight, a mystery that the Americans want to understand 😁

from Google:

• "A weather advisory for the area had been issued by the Thailand Meteorological Department, warning of 4-metre-high (13 ft) waves and advising ships to "proceed with caution".[9] She was caught in a storm on 18 December.[10] Seawater entering an exhaust port led to flooding and a heavy list, followed by a short circuit in the ship's electrical system and failure of the pumps.[11] This flooding caused the engines to fail, and the pumps became unusable."
• there were not enough life jackets on board the ship for the regular crew plus thirty extra people who were to take part in a ceremony, but that the chances of survival were the same with or without life jackets."

A lot of failures that the US would like to understand with regard to the ship operations. But since when is survival the same with or without life jackets? Maybe Thailand needs to understand such a policy.

 

[BE88]

8 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

from Google:

• "A weather advisory for the area had been issued by the Thailand Meteorological Department, warning of 4-metre-high (13 ft) waves and advising ships to "proceed with caution".[9] She was caught in a storm on 18 December.[10] Seawater entering an exhaust port led to flooding and a heavy list, followed by a short circuit in the ship's electrical system and failure of the pumps.[11] This flooding caused the engines to fail, and the pumps became unusable."
• there were not enough life jackets on board the ship for the regular crew plus thirty extra people who were to take part in a ceremony, but that the chances of survival were the same with or without life jackets."

A lot of failures that the US would like to understand with regard to the ship operations. But since when is survival the same with or without life jackets? Maybe Thailand needs to understand such a policy.

 

 

Maybe why don't you ask Google why these ships survive in the North Atlantic seas without sinking?

 

[cowellandrew]

High seas ! 

I remember 19 meter waves  went past the window as I was eating Christmas dinner, then pulling the rest of the anchor chain through the sub sea structures,

Ah fun times