Navy rescues missing speedboat crew off Koh Libong

The Phuket News

 

 

PHUKET:-- The Royal Thai Navy has rescued the captain and his one crewman of the lost speedboat Chamnina, reported missing off Koh Rok south of Phuket.

 

The Chamnina left Phi Phi Island and was heading to Koh Lanta with Capt Wijit Ngankhang and one crewman, Yothee Sandee, 37, when it went missing near Koh Rok from about 6pm on Wednesday (Aug 3).

 

The boat had run out of fuel near Koh Rok, but the two managed to acquire some fuel at the island, but went missing after again after leaving the area.

 

Search efforts by sea to locate the boat and its missing compliment of two were called off due to heavy seas and strong winds, Capt Pongjak Uraiman, commanding officer of the Naval Air Squadron at the Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command, based at Cape Panwa, said today (Aug 5).

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Dodgy story by the 'crew'  - how can get lost twice in a day ...

thats when you fill up your motorbike to often from the boat tank

I guess the fuel gauge showed E

E for enough 

Once is not enough. 

Incompetence, nothing more, nothing less.

Ran out of fuel twice in a row? Captain and one crew member alone? What about emergency radio? What about the mandatory location system for boats that was talked about?

 

Something smells fishy.