Vietnamese man tries to row dinghy from Thailand to India to see wife
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Vietnamese man tries to row dinghy from Thailand to India to see wife
A Vietnamese man who tried to row 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles) from Thailand to India to see his wife has been taken into custody after being rescued off the Thai coast.
Ho Hoang Hung set off from the holiday island of Phuket in an inflatable rubber dinghy, equipped with water and instant noodles but no navigation system, planning to cross the Bay of Bengal not long before the start of cyclone season.
A fishing boat found the 37-year-old on Wednesday near the Similan Islands, about 80 kilometres off the Thai mainland, and contacted the navy’s maritime security unit, which rescued him.
Ho told officials he was trying to reach his wife, who works in Mumbai, after spending two years apart because of Covid travel restrictions, said Capt Pichet Songtan from the Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Centre.
Pichet said the man was found with no map, compass, GPS or change of clothes and only a limited amount of water.
Ho had initially flown to Bangkok but found that without a visa he could not travel on to India, so he took a bus to Phuket, where he acquired the dinghy.
After setting off around 5 March, he was apparently held up by headwinds, making limited progress in the two weeks before he was found.
Thai officials said Ho would be returned to Phuket for further questioning.
“We have contacted the Vietnamese embassy as well as Indian embassy but not had a reply yet,” Pichet said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... o-see-wife
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