A tugboat sinks after it caught fire

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A tugboat sank after it caught fire

 

 

CHONBURI: -- A tug boat sank into the bottom of the sea in front of Dok Mai island of Chon Buri on Wednesday after its engine room caught fire and started burning.

 

Pol Cpt Puvichapon Sooksai, duty officer attached to Koh Sichang police, said he received a report that a tug boat, named Nampol Vanich 1, was burning heavily in the sea off Dok Mai island and immediately alerted the maritime traffic control centre of the Marine Department and the marine police.

 

Rescue and fire-fighting boats were dispatched to the scene to douse the fire. The firemen spent about two hours to fight the fire, but it could not save the tug boat which finally sank into the bottom of the sea.

 

Police said that three crew members of the ill-fated tug boat who jumped over board into the sea when the vessel caught fire were later picked up by a rescue vessel.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/tug-boat-sank-caught-fire/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2016-12-15

[JoJo Thai]

It is a Gulf not a Sea

 

[canuckamuck]

It's a part of the Seven Seas

[LennyW]

2 hours ago, JoJo Thai said:

It is a Gulf not a Sea

 

Does that mean it contains gulf water not sea water...

[chasntong]

Its the sea when I go swimming.

[mikebell]

1 hour ago, chasntong said:

Its the sea when I go swimming.

It's a sewer when I go swimming.  Just joking I never swim in Thai gulf/sea.

[bark]

5 hours ago, JoJo Thai said:

It is a Gulf not a Sea

 

They are not referring to the " Gulf of Thailand " !

They are referring to the water using the correct term.  

If some falls off a ship in the ocean; they say " He or she was lost at sea " not just at ocean, or lost at gulf.

Nice try Newbie ! Only for more troll posts to go.

[DD13]

After it caught fire......and started...... "Burning"

 

Nooooo

 

"Beam me up Scotty".    

[roger101]

On 12/15/2016 at 4:14 AM, JoJo Thai said:

It is a Gulf not a Sea

 

Another name for it is "The Bight of Bangkok"

[Basil B]

On 14/12/2016 at 9:14 PM, JoJo Thai said:

It is a Gulf not a Sea

 

 

A Gulf = " A large area of a sea or ocean partially enclosed by land"

 

So if it is not a sea it must be an ocean?