Search resumes for two missing in speedboat crash
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Marine Police scour the sea with binoculars. Photo Marine Dept

PHUKET: -- Searchers continue today (October 21) to look for two Korean tourists missing after Sunday’s speedboat crash (October 19).

Searchers drew a blank yesterday and suspended operations after the sun went down, but the search for resumed at 7am this morning.

Relatives of the two missing people – Mr Go Min Woo, 31, and Ms An Sun Yong, 28 – arrived in Phuket last night to join the search.

They were taken out on a boat from Royal Phuket Marina at 10am this morning to visit the area around where the speedboat crashed into a fishing boat, flipped and sank.

Meanwhile, the Phuket Tourism and Sports Office has put its Tourist Assistance Centre (TAC) at Surakul Stadium in Phuket Town into top gear to help those injured in the crash.

Phuket Tourism and Sport Director Santi Pawai told The Phuket News that the order to make special efforts to help the speedboat passengers came from the Tourism Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Suwat Sittilor.

“For those victims who have already been discharged from hospital, if they want to extend their stay in Thailand, we will arrange free tour packages and trips,” Mr Santi said.

“So far, we have arranged with airlines for flights for four injured people to be postponed indefinitely at no extra cost, and we have received consular requests to do the same for six other people who were hurt.”

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/search-resumes-for-two-missing-in-speedboat-crash-49253.php


-- Phuket News 2014-10-21

I am sure these people will not want another tour package here and probably can't wait to leave the country. Another black mark for Thailand

After this length of time in the water without a lifejacket they will just be looking for the bodies. Another shaming moment for this lovely country.

Well, the latest is that one body has been recovered.

Body of Phuket speedboat crash passenger found - one still missing
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The search continues for Mr Go Min Woo. Photo Marine Police

PHUKET: -- The body of one of the two Koreans missing after Sunday's collision between a tourist speedboat and a trawler was found this afternoon.

The remains of 28-year-old Mrs An Sun Yong were found by divers, trapped in the wreckage of the speedboat, the Seastar 29, on the seabed.

The search for the remnaining missing person, 31-year-old Mr Go Min Woo, continues.

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/body-of-phuket-speedboat-crash-passenger-found-one-still-missing-49262.php


-- Phuket News 2014-10-21

This is so so sad.

A needless accident.

Korean lady went on holiday and ended up dead in mangled wreckage on sea-bed.

Sad.

The second body has been recovered.

So another 2 tourists die,

Luckily this time they have the guilty party with the "plastic-bag" excuse.

Bodies of two missing South Korean tourists plucked from the sea

PHUKET: -- A group of foreign dive masters have found the bodies of two missing South Korean tourists trapped in the wreckage of the sunken speed boat.

The bodies of 31-year old You Win-wo and his fiancée, 28-year old Ms An San-yong, were separately plucked from the sunken speed boat, Sea Star 29, at the depth of about 30 metres near an outcrop about six nautical miles from Phi Phii Island.

The bodies were then handed over to Kusolatham Phuket Foundation and then taken to VachiraPhuke hospital for an autopsy to determine the actual cause of death. Initial findings showed that the two victims suffered head injuries.

Families of the two victims who have been in Phuket to follow up the search of the two missing tourists reportedly said that the two victims were lovers and planned to get married soon after their return home from a visit to Thailand.

Searches continue for the third missing Korean.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/bodies-two-missing-south-korean-tourists-plucked-sea/

-- Thai PBS 2014-10-21

Meanwhile the boat driver gets his hand slapped for going too fast under poor visibility conditions, pathetic

Damned shame. R.I.P. together.

Plucked?......Who writes this stuff?

Absurd that it was a group of foreign divers that had the gumption to search the wreck. What the hell were the Thai authorities doing. They should have had Navy or Police divers on this from day 1.. Farcical and incompetent does not even begin to describe Thai authorities.

Countdown to someone on here questioning the foreign divers have work permits for this..........

Why anyone would get in one of those speedboats with a moron at the helm is beyond comprehension. Feel so sorry for the unsuspecting tourists and yet with a little bit of online research such could be avoided by avoiding Thailand as a tourist destination until the Government makes laws that are A) designed to prevent such and; stringently enforced.

Unfortunately the Thai mind set is mai pen rai, the tourists will continue to flock here no matter how bad it gets; murder included. New slogan for TAT 'Deadly Thailand - 1,000 and 1 Ways to Lose your Money and Your Life'

Countdown to someone on here questioning the foreign divers have work permits for this..........

Did the foreign divers have work permits?