10 Oct 2023 at 17:01 PUBLISHED
PHUKET: According to the Region 3 Thailand Maritime Enforcement Command Centre( Thai – MECC ), a small fishing boat capsized in the water off Koh Ael island, south of Phuket, on Sunday, and two crew members went missing.
At 1.20 p.m., the Thai – MECC Region 3 received notification of the event via crisis number 1465.
About 2.2 nautical miles off the coast of Koh Ael, the fishing vessel with four crew members capsized. The other two crew members vanished, but two of them were able to swim offshore to health.
A search and rescue vision was sent out by a guard ship, Tor 272. A television network was used to alert nearby fishing boats to the Thai-MECC and assist in the search for the missing men.
However ongoing was the research.