A dramatic footage has emerged showing a ship - named ‘Aladdin’
– sinking under great waves as people on board can be heard screaming and shouting
for help when they realised that they were in grave danger.
Some of the passengers who jumped off the boat were sucked
under the waves as they tried to escape. Others were able to dive to safety.
Miraculously none of the 13 people on board died after people on another boat
swam over to save them.
Swedish diver Dennis Karlsson, 46, who was on board the Peter
Pan, took the footage of the boat sinking and the dramatic rescue.(see pictures
after the jump). ‘It was just a coincidence that our boat was there and could
come to the rescue,’ he told Sweden's Aftonbladet newspaper.
It is believed that Aladdin, which sank between Bon Island
and Tachai Island in Thailand's south, was on a four-day live-aboard adventure
trip at the time it sank. The incident comes just three months after six tourists died
when an overcrowded ferry carrying 200 people capsized and sank off the Thai
coast.
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