THE Thai navy mounted a full-scale operation to rescue 16 crewmembers of a cargo ship at risk of sinking off the coast of Phuket today (Feb. 7), with all safely brought ashore, Amarin TV said. RADM Parach Rattanachaiyapan, the navy’s spokesperson, said the Maritime Security Command Region 3 was alerted of Panamanian-flagged cargo ship
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Ex-navy officer: Warship’s front left hull was cracked
A FORMER NAVY officer said today (Dec. 21) that a fellow sailor who survived the sinking of HTMS 442 Sukhothai told him that the front left hull of the warship was cracked and that is why seawater gushed in, Sanook.com said. Col. Udom Chaichana, 60, who was among the crew who travelled to receive
Read moreAcademic: Big floods this year, Bangkok to disappear by 2100
A RANGSIT University professor warned that flooding over the next three months will be as severe as in 2011 with Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt urged to inform residents that the floodwater in the capital could reach a metre high while also drawing attention to projection by global experts that the metropolis will sink in
Read moreTwo more survivors found in Koh Samui ferry sinking
MARINE Police found two more survivors of a ferry that sank in rough weather off Koh Samui at 9.50 p.m. last night but also found two dead bodies with the search continue for three more missing victims, INN News and Sanook.com reported this afternoon (August 2). Nine other victims of this accident had been rescued
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