PUBLISHED: 31 Dec 2024 at 17: 47
A long-tail boat ship overturned on Sunday, leaving a body of a Korean person dead off Koh Phangan, where it was discovered floating in the water just before noon on Tuesday.
A ship captain reported finding the man’s body at 11.33am to the Koh Phangan’s missing persons center.
He was found about 600 feet from Koh Phangan’s Haad Rin wharf, about five miles from where the long-tailed motorboat capsized earlier Sunday night.
Police claimed the body was wearing the same clothes as the Asian man who has vanished on Sunday in security camera footage. The figure was sent to Koh Phangan Hospital for post-mortem investigation.  ,
The Korean was one of the ten visitors traveling by long-tailed vessel, the Pichitchai 38, from Haad Rin Beach to another shore on Koh Phangan. Around 3 a.m. on Sunday, the motorboat capsized in great waves. The three fishermen and nine of the travellers were saved.
The owner of the boat will face charges of carelessness and suicide, according to Surat Thani government Theerut Supawibulpol. The vessel was unregulated, driven by a person without the proper license, was drug users, and had ignored official instructions to keep all tiny boats ashore due to the rough sea.
A later in the evening New Year’s clock was scheduled along Haad Rin shore, where red flags that prohibit swimming were placed on Tuesday.  ,