A pirate-themed café boat and restaurant flooded and was left partially submerged in tough seas off Pattaya.
The double-deck “Kra Kenian” was a raft boat providing eating, dwell music, a karaoke room and squid fishing. It started itemizing Jan. 30 after being hit by waves pushed by robust winds round 4 p.m. It flooded and started to sink. Hypothesis was a water pump failed.
Rescuers helped staff to security and no friends had been on board. Nobody was injured.
The boat didn’t sink because it was in shallow water, however its bow was resting on the sandy sea flooring. Marine officers mentioned righting the vessel would take about an hour as soon as circumstances improved.
Proprietor Pichet Tanomchart, 41, mentioned the restaurant had been ordered closed a few days in the past due to the climate. It first opened for enterprise on Nov. 18.
Wasan Meesat of the Maritime Catastrophe Prevention Division, mentioned investigators will verify whether or not the pirate ship had collided with one other craft or object earlier than the accident.
