PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN, March 12 (TNA) – The Royal Thai Navy has concluded its 19-day mission to search the HTMS Sukhothai and to remove hazardous materials from the sunken corvette in the Gulf of Thailand with no missing persons found.

 

Yesterday (March 11) marked the final day of the operation.

 

Admiral Chartchai Thongsa-ard, Commander in Chief, Royal Thai Fleet said that a collaborative effort between the Thai Navy and the US Navy included the search for five missing persons.

 

Full story: Thai News Agency 2024-03-12

 

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It seems to me garbage on the seabed.

It's now a man made reef and will slowly be taken over by marine life. 

 

And after 19 days they came to the conclusion... 

 

   It sank 

8 minutes ago, Korat Kiwi said:

It's now a man made reef and will slowly be taken over by marine life. 

 

And after 19 days they came to the conclusion... 

 

   It sank 

Because of a misunderstanding in all likelihood.

So the USN recovered the bits they wanted.

12 hours ago, Ben Zioner said:

Because of a misunderstanding in all likelihood.

Leaky hull more like.

So the USN recovered the bits they wanted to not get into Chinese/Russian hands.

2 hours ago, IAMHERE said:

So the USN recovered the bits they wanted to not get into Chinese/Russian hands.

And if so why not....

Now the RTN can say "Abandon ship in English?"

So now it is a 'light' salvage operation. I can't recall that being mentioned before.