The seek for two missing international vacationers who disappeared after renting kayaks from a lodge on Coconut Island in Phuket, southern Thailand, on Friday has been known as off. It seems they have been rescued by the captain of a yacht later that day.
At 6pm yesterday, officers at Mueang Phuket Police Station, Tourist Police, Phuket Marine Police, and Koh Kaeo subdistrict officers introduced the results of their search.
The search party scoured the seas for two days however found no signs of the international tourists or their kayaks. Then, the police had been contacted by the captain of a yacht, 46 yr previous Witthaya, or “Bangson,” yesterday.
Bangson knowledgeable the police that he noticed the heads of two people poking out of the water near two floating kayaks close to Koh Rang Yai island on Friday night.
He mentioned the kayaks had been full of water making them unusable so the vacationers – nationality unknown – have been forced out of them and have been floating at sea. He mentioned he suspects the cause to be a drainage problem.
Bangson pulled the tourists and kayaks up onto his yacht and headed again to shore, docking at Royal Marina Pier in Koh Kaew subdistrict. The vacationers left the kayaks with the port safety guard.
Meanwhile, Remote get together was launched after the vacationers by no means returned to the kayak shop.
Until yesterday, Bangson saw on social media that Mueang Phuket Police Station had announced that two foreign kayakers had been lacking, so he rang the police to name off the search.
The nationality of the foreign vacationers is unknown..