Rescue teams are continuing their search today (Sunday) for two tourists, who remain missing after a tour boat encountered a waterspout and capsized in an estuary in Bang Tabun Bay in Phetchaburi last evening.
The driver of the boat, Samphan, told the police that he took a group of seven people for a sight-seeing tour in Bang Tabun Bay. On the way back, about two kilometres from the shore, a waterspout suddenly formed and hit his vessel violently, causing it to capsize.
He said that none of the seven tourists were wearing life jackets, but he managed to save five of them and the other two could not be located.
Charnchai Thongklam, who was eating at a coastal restaurant with some friends, said he saw the waterspout and used his cell phone to record the event.
Marine Department officials said they will call a meeting with tour boat operators, to tell them to exercise special caution when they take tourists on sight-seeing tours and to ask all passengers to wear life jackets when at sea.
