More than 10 years ago. A story in a cheap weekend bullet resort tour in Phuket. A recruitment type group trip sponsored by a newspaper company. A hotel and an air ticket were a set. Round trip to Haneda for 2 nights and 3 days. Locally, joined the local cheap optional tour.
Khao Pinkan in Phang Nga Bay. that local tour to the famous James Bond Island was around 5,000 yen with lunch or so.
Changed to a kayak and explored the lagoons and caves of Panak and Hong Island. It's common for kayakers to threaten, "If you don't tip, you'll get off the boat here." However, it is a story that has nothing to do with me on a poor trip without money.
Paddling a kayak by borrowing a paddle from a local saw. While rowing, I heard in local poor English that he had seen a speedboat that no one was on.
Unless you are a technical diver, such as pulling up a sunken ship, diving is generally done up to a depth of 30m, where there are many fish. Therefore, it is almost never far from the coast of the island. However, depending on the terrain, a strong rip current called lip current may occur. If the boat's engine doesn't start, and if it's caught in a rip current, it will drift far offshore.
Boats are often loaded with satellite phones and radios to prepare such drifting accidents. Most diving cruises in Phuket have a luxury diving plan by chartering a large diving boat, but of course there are also cheap charter boats. There is no guarantee that the radio on the local small boat is not broken. If a speedboat without wireless communicator etc. breaks down offshore, that's the end.
... It makes a large news when Japanese people get involved in an accident, but not so much for foreign divers. If the boat runs out of gas far off the Amandan Sea and cannot contact the land, it will be missing without anyone knowing. ... A small speedboat drifting. When the body is on board and when it is unmanned ...
It is said that such a ship is seen every few years.