A Vietnamese man who hasn’t seen the love of his life for over a year and tried to row 2,000 kilometres from Thailand to India to visit his wife has been taken into detention after being rescued off the Thai coast. The 37-year-old man, identified as Ho Hoang Hung, planned to cross the Bay of Bengal around the beginning of the cyclone season in a bid to meet his wife, who lives in Mumbai. Ho Hoang Hung was found paddling in an inflatable rubber boat in the Andaman Sea, 80 kms offshore.
Hung set off from the holiday island of Phuket in an inflatable rubber sailboat, prepared with water and instant noodles without any navigation system, intending to cross the Bay of Bengal not long before the start of cyclone season. The Thai Navy’s maritime security unit saved him, as informed by the Royal Thai Navy on Facebook. He said he wanted to paddle to his wife in India.
