Just now, Will Iam Not said:

Great Whites in Gulf of Thailand??? 

Maybe along the beach road, sold by the 100 grams on display at the restaurant.   Fin soup in the Chinese restaurants 🤬

 

... ENJOY 

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20 hours ago, Woke to Sounds said:

Great whites out there in them waters.

 

Lucky the fishers got out alive.

Fat guys from Yorkshire maybe!

On 11/21/2025 at 6:02 PM, Will B Good said:

Seems odd that the emergency services were notified immediately, yet none of the nine could be spotted.......I wonder if any of them had life jackets?

 

We went over to Koh Samet......much shorter trip I recall......boat was obviously overcrowded and they ran out of lifejackets.

 

Of course being British I would rather drown that complain.

Yonks ago, I used to regularly take the speedboat from Phuket to Ao Nang.  No life jackets provided - I brought my own and always wore it, much to the 'mirth' of the other passengers who apparently preferred to drown if there were an accident....

17 minutes ago, simon43 said:

Yonks ago, I used to regularly take the speedboat from Phuket to Ao Nang.  No life jackets provided - I brought my own and always wore it, much to the 'mirth' of the other passengers who apparently preferred to drown if there were an accident....

 

Yep....I can see that.

 

If I give the Thai family a lift anywhere it's kids in the back, everyone wears a safety belt.........they do it, but you can tell they think I'm weird. 

On 11/22/2025 at 9:40 AM, KhunLA said:

Maybe along the beach road, sold by the 100 grams on display at the restaurant.   Fin soup in the Chinese restaurants 🤬

 

... ENJOY 

All been caught by the fishermen and huge nets. 

But there again I did see a pod of dolphins just around from the Lam Chabang port years ago.

Where there's dolphins there's probably sharks.

45 minutes ago, carlyai said:

All been caught by the fishermen and huge nets. 

But there again I did see a pod of dolphins just around from the Lam Chabang port years ago.

Where there's dolphins there's probably sharks.

 

Thats not how that works. lol

 

I thought I was a sissy for being afraid of getting on those boats.

 

10 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

I thought I was a sissy for being afraid of getting on those boats.

 

Unless you want to go fishing, why would you?

2 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Unless you want to go fishing, why would you?

 

to get to the islands.

 

So I wonder why the initial confusion that it was a tour boat? As for no mention of nationalities, if they were all fishers, then some are most likely Burmese - but they don't want to acknowledge that so they don't say. Were they headed for a bigger fishing boat (a sort of transfer of crew)?

6 minutes ago, ronnie50 said:

So I wonder why the initial confusion that it was a tour boat? As for no mention of nationalities, if they were all fishers, then some are most likely Burmese - but they don't want to acknowledge that so they don't say. Were they headed for a bigger fishing boat (a sort of transfer of crew)?

They were all Thai’s booked on a fishing trip , which has been clarified in the updates.

 

The story was a developing incident, which was first posted when the initial alert was first received, victims were still in the water and multiple agencies were dealing.

 

You clearly never dealt with a serious emergency incident, where information is confusing, often contradictory, multiple agencies with no common communication channels and changing details, hence why updates are posted to the OP.

 

So instead of reading the facts in the updates, which states they were all Thai nationals, you posted a conspiracy based on nothing but your own fantasy.

1 minute ago, Georgealbert said:

So instead of reading the facts in the updates, which states they were all Thai nationals,

Guess I misssed that. Wasn't making a comment about the report writing.

On 11/22/2025 at 5:39 AM, jacko45k said:

Cold too, I wonder if exposure is a danger too. 

Of course it is. They were suffering from hyperthermia, according to the report. The human body runs best at 37 °C, and the surface temperature was probably mid to high 20s. After 7 hours, you will get very cold.

The most recent update said that the fishing vessel was booked for * transport * purposes between the two islands. 

 

The larger boats plying these waters have a large sail area and a narrow beam, which can be disastrous in high winds.  The lack of freeboard makes the bilge pump crucial in rough seas.  The electrical connection to the pump (should be more than one pump)  is exposed to salt water and needs to be checked regularly. 

 

A friend of mine and I worked on a ferry back home and took one of those 30 baht trips to Koh Lan. We were horrified at the safety standards and took a speedboat back, which wasn't much better, but at least we were above the waterline for the duration of the trip.  Back home we have to take courses and pass tests, even to be a deck hand on a boat. I have no idea how it works here. There are some decent boat handlers to be sure, but some are downright scary. 

On 11/21/2025 at 10:14 PM, persimmon said:

The wind today was the strongest I can ever remember in Pattaya.  Very unwise to take the ferry in these conditions. Also , some of those old wooden ferry boats look dilapidated. Good news all were rescued. 

What ferry?

10 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

What ferry?

The ferry from Bali Hai pier to Koh Larn.

1 minute ago, brewsterbudgen said:

The ferry from Bali Hai pier to Koh Larn.

It was a fishing boat, or a boat that people had hired to go fishing. It wasn't a ferry.

2 hours ago, emptypockets said:

It was a fishing boat, or a boat that people had hired to go fishing. It wasn't a ferry.

Thanks for the correction. 👍