• Shipwreck Rescue operation in Thailand to search for the 31 missing sailors

The Thai Navy reported on Tuesday that one of the crew of the warship sunk on Sunday night was found alive floating in the waters of the Gulf of Thailand, while they continue to search for 29 other people.

The survivor was found by a merchant ship that was sailing in the area and that notified the authorities of the rescue around 2:15 p.m. local time (7:15 GMT), the Navy said on Twitter.

Another navy ship, the HTMS Ang Thong, is on its way to the site to pick him up and bring him to the mainland.

The Navy continues with the

search and rescue operation,

which has been running uninterrupted since Sunday night, in which several Navy vessels and aircraft participate, after rescuing 75 people on Sunday and one on Monday.

The HTMS Sukhothai, a corvette ship carrying 106 people at the time of the incident, sank just before midnight on Sunday some 37 kilometers off the coast of Prachuap Khiri Khan province, southwest of Bangkok, due to the Strong storm that caused water to enter the engine room.

According to a preliminary report, the strong storm caused

the ship to list to the left,

which led to water entering a side exhaust pipe and causing power outages to both the main and auxiliary engines.

The bailing system was also disabled, so the crew ended up losing control of the boat.

"It is a chain of events that lead to the sinking of the ship," indicates the provisional report published on social networks, which indicates that they hope to gather more information to determine what happened.

The Navy published on social networks a video of the sinking of the corvette and photographs of the rescue of the crew, all dressed in life jackets and in an inflatable raft.

The capture shows the Sukhothai, built in the United States and in use since 1987,

leaning to port among the strong waves

, while another frame - taken with a night camera - shows the moment when the bow of the ship and a turret protrude above it. the waterline.

This is the first sinking of a Thai warship since World War II when the HTMS Samui sank near Malaysia after being torpedoed by a US submarine, killing 31 sailors, the armed forces said.

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