Divers plan to recover last victim from sunken Phoenix
published : 12 Jul 2018 at 11:50
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Achadthaya Chuenniran
PHUKET: Three navy boats left port on Thursday morning to retrieve the body of the 47th and final victim from the tour boat Phoenix, which overturned and sank last Thursday.
HTMS Thonglang, HTMS Hua Hin and HTMS Panyi departed from tambon Wichit at 5.45am with navy divers, local rescuers and their Chinese counterparts. It was raining slightly and waves were 2-3 metres high.
Officials would stick to their old plan at the location of the sunken vessel. Divers would use blowers to clear sand away from under the shipwreck in two dives, and then free the trapped body. Chinese divers would bag the body and bring it to the surface.
Eighty-nine tourists plus guides and crew were aboard when the tour boat capsized off Phuket last Thursday, almost all of them Chinese nationals. Forty-seven tourists died; 46 bodies have been recovered to date.
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- counterpart (noun): someone who has the same job or purpose as another person, but in a different country, time, situation or organisation - คนที่อยู่ในตำแหน่งเดียวกันของอีกประเทศ หรือ กลุ่มหนึ่ง
- sand (noun): the loose pale brown or white substance found at the beach or on the desert - ทราย
- shipwreck: an accident in which a ship is destroyed or sunk at sea, especially by hitting rocks, or a ship which has been destroyed or sunk in such an accident - ซากเรืออับปาง
- surface: the outside or top layer of something - ผิวหน้า, ผิวภายนอก, ด้านนอก
- to date: until now -
- vessel: a boat or ship - เรือ
