News & interviews after DiveAsia boat sunk near Phuket

The search for 7 missing continues in the sea off Promthep, Phuket, after a diving boat sank on Sunday night. A Dive Asia boat, Choke Somboon 19 or MV Dive Asia 1, carrying foreign scuba divers from a live-aboard trip to the Similans, sunk on its return to Phuket province on Sunday night at about 10.50pm, but the owners did not know until early Monday morning, when it did not return to Chalong Pier as expected. It apparently hit a sudden unexpected storm, and 23 people, 14 foreigners and 9 ...

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