News Forum - Body and 9 sailors found alive by oil tanker are not from HTMS Sukhothai, says navy

[Thaiger]

UPDATE 2 The Royal Thai Navy says the nine sailors found alive and one dead body discovered by an oil tanker in the Gulf of Thailand are not crew members from the HTMS Sukhothai which sank off the coast of Prachuap Khiri Khan province last night as widely reported in Thai media. At least four boats sank in Thailand’s waters among four-metre-high waves and strong winds today and yesterday. Oil tanker PATARAVARIN 88 pulled nine exhausted sailors and one body from the sea today near the coast of Chumphon province. Thai media reported that these were members of the sunken […]

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[Soidog]

Jees! It’s worse than the Bermuda Triangle out there

[Skip]

Those submarine sailors don't know how lucky they are that their sub has no engines

[HiuMak]

12 hours ago, Thaiger said:

UPDATE 2 The Royal Thai Navy says the nine sailors found alive and one dead body discovered by an oil tanker in the Gulf of Thailand are not crew members from the HTMS Sukhothai which sank off the coast of Prachuap Khiri Khan province last night as widely reported in Thai media. At least four boats sank in Thailand’s waters among four-metre-high waves and strong winds today and yesterday. Oil tanker PATARAVARIN 88 pulled nine exhausted sailors and one body from the sea today near the coast of Chumphon province. Thai media reported that these were members of the sunken […]

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During raining & monsoon season, not a good time for boat commuting.

[TWS60]

The sea will find weakness, and exploit it dispassionately, and unmercifully. 

Typhoon Ruby ('88) was my first, out of Subic, the plan was to dance around it but remain in the general area to continue ops afterward.   Well, even on a 1,000+' ship-of-the-line, routine green water over the bow, a fair few of the salty crew down hard with sea sickness, Skipper ended up pointing North back to home port, sans whip antennas, 1 tractor lost over the side, steel deck plates and catwalks bent like pretzels.  We had to have looked like hell coming around the last turn to our pier.  

Been through a few on islands, 1st baptism by Super Typhoon, and TBH, that was more unsettling than being on a ship at sea, where you have a chance to avoid the worst of it. 

Stood outside on the lee side of my moderately flooded pre-fab steel sheet building having a smoke, through deafening sheets of blinding rain, watched the roof of a bay side warehouse come off like a banana peel, but with no sound to my ear, like an old time silent movie reel, or flipping the pages quickly to animate cartoon character sketches. 

Surreal, and humbling.