PHANGNA: A Vietnamese man was rescued from an inflatable boat after he was found paddling alone towards India to see his wife, from whom he had been separated by Covid-19.
A representative from the Third Fleet said that Panya Permwongnitikorn, steersman of Tor Khrong Phet Rung Ruang fishing boat, reported at 11.50am on Wednesday that a man was seen paddling an inflatable boat about 14 kilometres off the Similan Islands and about 80 kilometres off Phangnga. There was a drinking water bottle and a suitcase on the rubber boat.
Sailors and marine park rangers travelled to the location and reached the fishing boat at 12.45pm. There they found Ho Hoang Hung, 37, on a rubber boat tied to the…
